South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
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Icasa will finally auction access to spectrum for mobile broadband services this week. But a looming court battle could still derail the allocation.
EOH Holdings will meet with investors in the coming days to assess its “strategic options” for dealing with its gearing problem.
Load shedding has struck again. Eskom will cut the power on a rolling basis across South Africa at stage 2 from 5pm on Monday afternoon.
Traders are adding bets on an outsized interest rate increase in South Africa later this month as the surge in the price of oil fuels inflation expectations.
Massmart has reported full-year results stained in red ink thanks in part to the impairment an SAP ERP system at troubled retailer Game.
Eskom has decided not to replace the steam generators at unit 2 of the Koeberg nuclear power station as planned this year over fears it could contribute to winter power cuts.
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Peter Thiel, one of US President Donald Trump’s top Silicon Valley supporters and donors, took aim at Google and the hi-tech industry over the companies’ focus on global markets while brushing aside US interests.
Symantec and Broadcom have halted their discussions for a proposed merger as the two sides couldn’t agree on a price, according to people familiar with the matter.
Nasa will this week celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, which saw commander Neil Armstrong become the first person to step onto the lunar surface.
The US Federal Trade Commission has voted to approve a fine of about US$5-billion for Facebook over privacy violations, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Eskom has asked for a 16%/year increase in electricity prices for the next five years – an effective doubling in the price over the period. This will increase costs for mobile operators and data-centre providers, with costs eventually flowing through to consumers, industry players have warned. Vox Telecom
Cellular industry body, the GSM Association, says that by the end of the year it expects there will be 3,2bn mobile phone subscribers worldwide, a huge reduction in its previous estimates. The new numbers suggest the adoption of mobile technology is not nearly as widespread as first
