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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MultiChoice will not pull the plug on RT, the state-funded Russian news channel, even as the EU and major tech companies move to sanction it.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has named Andrea Johnson as the new head of the National Prosecuting Authority’s Investigating Directorate.
South Africa has obtained Interpol-issued Red Notices for two Gupta brothers wanted in the country on charges of money laundering.
MTN Group has acquired virtual land in Africarare, a metaverse, joining advertising agency M&C Saatchi Abel, which announced similar plans earlier on Monday.
The prime ministers of Poland and the Baltics have demanded executives in charge of Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter “take a stand” against Russian disinformation.
M&C Saatchi Abel has opened an “office” in the so-called metaverse, after purchasing its own “plot of land” in the newly created Ubuntuland.
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Tencent-backed grocery delivery start-up Missfresh is seeking new funds, according to people familiar with the matter, refilling its coffers as startup capital-raising gets tougher.
Automakers to trading houses are becoming more concerned about future supply shortages of key materials needed for electric vehicle batteries as spending on new production soars.
Apple’s Steve Jobs was singular in his ability to take a company “on a path to die” and turn it into the world’s most valuable – in part by “casting spells”, billionaire Bill Gates said.
Financial regulators must act fast to prepare for the push by US technology giants like Facebook into the financial system, according to European Central Bank executive board member Benoit Coeure.
Communications minister Dina Pule is “surprised” by e.tv’s high court application against her in which the free-to-air broadcaster accuses her of acting unlawfully in appointing Sentech to manage the control system that will be used in the set-top boxes that are needed for consumers to receive digital terrestrial television signals
The Espresso Book Machine is not the most beautiful device you will ever see. It looks like a large, clumsy, see-through photocopier, which is sort of what it is. But it is a thousand times more powerful. This speedy print-on-demand publishing gadget — which costs R1m — can churn out a bound book, cover and all, in
