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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The Economic Freedom Fighters has slammed MultiChoice over what it has inaccurately claimed is the broadcaster’s “unilateral decision” to remove Russia’s RT from DStv.
RT, the Russian state-owned news channel formerly known as Russia Today, is no longer available on DStv, just one day after MultiChoice said it had no intention of canning it.
MTN Group’s share price topped R200/share on Wednesday, the first time the JSE-listed telecoms giant has touched these levels in nearly seven years.
A group of the world’s richest nations that pledged $8.5-billion in climate finance to South Africa wants the money to be used to retire coal-fired power plants.
Fitbit is recalling about 1.7 million of its Ionic smartwatches globally following reports of burn injuries from overheating batteries.
Investment firms Blantyre Capital and Greenpoint Capital have offered R250-million to rescue cinema chain Ster-Kinekor Theatres.
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Virgin Galactic’s sister company, Virgin Orbit, has conducted a drop test of its air-launched satellite booster over California in a key step towards space missions.
The White House is launching an investigation into France’s proposed tax on Internet giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook, in a move that could lead to US taxes on French imports.
The US said it would grant licences allowing companies to export goods to Huawei but won’t remove the Chinese firm an export blacklist, as talks between the world’s two biggest economies resumed.
When Walmart paid $16-billion for control of India’s e-commerce pioneer Flipkart Online Services from investors, including Naspers, last year, the US retail giant got a little-noticed digital payments subsidiary as part of the deal.
Communications minister Dina Pule should not be surprised by e.tv’s decision to take her to court over her “unlawful” and “impugned” decision to appoint Sentech as the manager of the crucial control system for digital terrestrial television, the free-to-air broadcaster’s chief operating officer Bronwyn Keene-Young says in new
Each year, tens of thousands of South Africans find themselves signed up for mobile subscription services that deduct funds from their airtime balances or add costs to their monthly bills without their knowledge. One way to limit the impact of this is to make the sign-up process more difficult, but to date only one
