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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Vumatel has acquired a 45% non-controlling stake in fixed-wireless and fibre Internet service provider Herotel.
Blue Label Telecoms’ co-CEOs Mark and Brett Levy have expressed their frustration that investors continue to punish Blue Label for their Cell C deal, despite the solid performance of the group in recent years.
Government intends to make it mandatory for all metal traders to get licences and prevent them from dealing in cash.
Energy regulator has granted Eskom an overall average tariff increase for the 2022/2023 financial year of 9.61%.
A new research report from the Internet Society has found that South Africa has the most resilient Internet on the African continent.
Government plans to restructure Eskom’s debt before elections in 2024, and will only provide additional support if the company sells assets and cuts jobs, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said.
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HP and Dell Technologies plan to move as much as 30% of their notebook production away from China as global technology giants scramble out of the way of escalating tariffs on US-bound goods.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has disputed a report suggesting that tensions led to the departure of design chief Jony Ive, the Briton behind many of the company’s famous products.
CloudFlare, an Internet service meant to protect websites from going down, faced its own network issues on Tuesday, leading to several prominent sites being unavailable for some time.
Visa, Mastercard and PayPal may have boosted the single, greatest risk they face – that of tougher regulation – by becoming early backers for Facebook’s new digital money, called libra.
The status quo in SA’s telecommunications industry is “not sustainable” and a wave of consolidation is coming soon. That’s the view of Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who says he expects a big shake-up in the industry, possibly within the next six months, with smaller players reaching out to each
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