From digital IDs to AI-powered crime fighting, here are the key tech takeaways from Sona 2026.
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While its other segments have showed a relatively muted performance, Cell C’s MVNO business is thriving.
South Africa will push ahead with breaking up Eskom and creating a standalone company to run the transmission grid.
Cell C’s first results as a listed company reveal a cleaner balance sheet but a business still searching for momentum.
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Analysts doubt the intervention solves Intel’s fundamental issues with clients, profitability and yields.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the US would take a 10% stake in struggling chip maker Intel.
South African Jean-Jacques Wallis is redefining the limits of self-propelled human flight.
Elon Musk tried to enlist rival Mark Zuckerberg for his $97.4-billion bid that his consortium made for OpenAI.
A key regulator has given the green light to a transaction that should help advance a proposed plan to list Cell C.
Although still a long way off, 24-hour trading would require big changes to the JSE’s IT operations.
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Google and Meta Platforms have held discussions with major Hollywood studios about licensing content.
Google will start testing search and shopping ads in its AI-generated answers in the US.
If China invades Taiwan, ASML and TSMC have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chip-making machines.
Sonos is entering the headphones market, part of an effort to turn the company into a broader maker of consumer technology.
There is a fundamental but somewhat cryptic side to the metaverse that will set it apart from today’s Internet: the blockchain.
Some cosmologists believe a previous, cold dark empty universe like the one which lies in our far future could have been the source of our very own Big Bang.
































