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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Mustek has continued its robust financial performance, on Wednesday reporting growth in interim headline earnings per share of 17.3%.
Branch International plans to become a pan-African digital bank as it sees a growth opportunity in online financial services on the continent.
A probe into state corruption found that senior ANC officials received illicit payments from services company Bosasa, leaving President Cyril Ramaphosa in a quandary over how to respond.
Capital Appreciation has announced that it has bought the Responsive Technology group for R48.7-million in a move that grows its portfolio of assets.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has proclaimed 31 March as the date that South Africa will switch off analogue television broadcasts.
VALR.com, the cryptocurrency exchange co-founded by Farzan Ehsani, has raised more than R750-million in funding at a valuation of about R3.7-billion.
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German economics minister Peter Altmaier plans to build up a German cloud service to allow European companies to store data independent of Asian or US rivals such as Amazon.com.
IBM closed its $34-billion purchase of Red Hat, sealing the world’s second largest technology deal ever and setting up the US technology company on a path to try and compete with top software purveyors in the cloud.
Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans to go public and become the world’s first listed space-tourism venture, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Wall Street hasn’t been this pessimistic about Apple in a long time.
Telkom and its mobile arm 8ta may be sitting in the pound seats when it comes to next-generation wireless broadband thanks to its access to a big chunk of valuable radio frequency spectrum — and the telecommunications operator has signalled it plans to take full advantage of it. Whereas all
The rand nose-dived against major foreign currencies on Monday hitting a new three-and-a-half year low of R8,97/US$, before recovering slightly. The slide means gadgets and computers are about to get a lot more expensive, though not necessary
