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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Huge Group’s efforts to acquire software services group Adapt IT appears to be all over bar the shouting. This after shareholders representing just 1.9% of Adapt IT shares accepted its offer.
MTN Nigeria plans to invest R21-billion over the next three years to expand broadband access in Africa’s most populous country, its CEO said on Monday.
Eskom has reached “commercial operation status” of its final generation unit at Medupi, one of the world’s largest coal-fired power stations – and likely one of the last of its size to be built.
First National Bank is deploying mobile ATMs in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng hit by recent large-scale looting as a temporary measure while it rebuilds infrastructure destroyed in the riots.
MTN Group’s Nigerian unit has reported a 27.6% increase in half-year Ebitda, despite a sharp decline in subscribers brought about by regulatory restrictions on new Sim sales and activations.
The high court has granted the liquidators of Africrypt additional powers to track down missing funds, and to sell assets and property belonging to the company.
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A British cybersecurity researcher credited with stopping a worldwide computer virus in 2017 has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to developing malware to steal banking information.
Huawei overtook Apple to claim the number-two spot in smartphones in the first quarter, moving a step closer to its avowed ambition of displacing Samsung at the top of the market.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a London court on Thursday that he doesn’t want “to surrender to America” as he fights extradition over the leak of national security information.
Apple will pay Qualcomm $4.5-billion to $4.7-billion to catch up on licensing fees accrued during a two-year legal battle between the companies settled last month.
Last week Republicans seized on news that David Plouffe, a senior advisor in the White House, had accepted $100 000 from a subsidiary of MTN for two speeches he gave in Nigeria shortly before joining the White House staff in 2010. “Today’s story raises serious questions about [US President] Barack Obama’s senior
Telkom’s R449m fine handed down this week for anticompetitive practices could be only the start of its problems. Senior competition lawyers are expecting a string of damages claims from its competitors. The Competition Tribunal found Telkom guilty of anticompetitive practices, which opens

































