The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
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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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Contactless payments platform SnapScan has released an update to its app that allows people to make peer-to-peer payments from its electronic wallet.
South African banks said on Thursday that replacing 1 400 ATMs vandalised and looted during recent violent unrest could take about two months. As much as R20-million could have been taken.
First National Bank said on Thursday that it is looking to hire 300 technology professionals with expertise in areas such as software development and cybersecurity.
The public enterprises ministry said late on Wednesday that preliminary assessments showed that Transnet and its customer data had not been compromised by a recent cyberattack.
Samsung Electronics is making foldable phones a priority, starting with a major promotional push in the latter half of this year aimed at bringing the premium form factor to a mainstream audience.
About 54% of South Africans say they are unlikely to get a Covid-19 vaccine and almost half say they believe prayer provides more protection than the shots against contracting the disease, a survey showed.
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Alphabet’s first-quarter revenue missed analysts’ estimates, sparking concern that advertisers are shifting some spending to digital rivals. Shares of Google’s parent company fell more than 7% following the results.
Spotify has reached 100 million paid subscribers, a first for any music service, adding more customers in the latest quarter than analysts expected and boosting confidence the company has lots of room to grow.
For technology stocks, the superlatives are endless this year. But rather than take profits and run, investors are flooding the space.
Amazon.com spent $1.7 billion on video and music content during the first quarter of this year, the first time the technology and retail giant has itemised the growing cost of providing streaming services to consumers.
Communications minister Dina Pule is in the spotlight after a dossier of allegations against her was leaked to the Mail & Guardian this week. The dossier, substantial elements of which were independently confirmed to the M&G by communication department officials familiar with the circumstances, paints a picture
The recently published Electronic Communications Amendment Bill proposes the creation of a new Spectrum Management Agency responsible for all spectrum allocation in SA. Assignment of frequencies will be divided between the new agency and the sector regulator, the Independent Communications of Authority of SA
