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Xneelo has begun construction on a second data centre at Samrand in Gauteng.
A partnership between four financial institutions has led to the launch of an “institutional-grade” stablecoin pegged to the rand.
The entry of China’s Haier into South Africa looks set to sharpen competition in the local home appliance market.
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Dimension Data’s newly appointed CEO, Werner Kapp, said the company’s parent, NTT, sees Africa and the Middle East as ripe with potential.
Modelling prepared for the provincial government shows that the peak of a third wave of Covid-19 infections in Gauteng is expected soon.
Eskom on Friday said it will implement a conditional 1.5% wage increase, potentially setting the stage for a showdown with unions, which had been demanding far more.
South Africa aims to more than double the rate of daily Covid-19 vaccinations over the next month to more than 200 000 as more Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson shots arrive, health officials said on Friday.
The decision by the environment department to refuse environmental authorisations for Karpowership SA’s multibillion-rand energy deal is likely to be appealed.
Despite all the talk of openness, Microsoft’s new Windows 11 operating system has at least one change that hearkens back to the days of Microsoft’s own anticompetitive behaviour.
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Huawei pleaded not guilty to US charges of trade-secret theft, a day before the company learns if Canada will start extradition proceedings for its chief financial officer in a pivotal week that could see diplomatic tensions flare.
The US government and Huawei Technologies are grappling for airtime in a war of words over network security at the phone industry’s biggest trade show.
Elon Musk’s Twitter habit is putting him in increasing legal jeopardy, with the Tesla CEO facing millions of dollars in additional fines, tighter restrictions on his use of social media and even a possible bar on running the company, experts say.
ZTE went from one-foot-in-the-grave to 2019’s technology superstar. Despite a gain of more than 60% that’s pushed its shares well above analysts’ projections, some investors argue that rally still has legs.
“Ideas so simple,” reads a cartoon on an elevator door, “that they feel like the completion of a thought,” continues its twin. Similar doodles adorn the walls of HTC’s headquarters in Taoyuan, near Taipei, and business cards carried by the smartphone-maker’s staff. John Wang, the chief marketing officer, lays out a set of four: concentric
MTN is facing a storm over claims that it helped the Iranian government to spy on local subscribers and assisted the regime in its brutal crackdown on protesters in 2009 and 2010. In court papers lodged in the US last week, rival mobile operator Turkcell alleged that MTN told its Iranian military-linked partners it
