BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
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Solly Malatsi insists nobody influenced him into pursuing a policy his party, the DA, had already promised.
The fight over who owns South Africa’s transmission grid has burst spectacularly into the open.
South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
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The energy department has cautioned that a retreat from coal must take account of the impact on the economy and the people who depend on it for a living.
Following a “lengthy competitive process”, MTN Group will sell a big chunk of its South African tower portfolio to IHS Towers in a R6.4-billion deal.
Shoprite Group, South Africa’s largest retailer, has quietly launched a basic transactional bank account linked to its Xtra Savings rewards cards.
South African fintech Ozow has raised $48-million in a series-B funding round led by China’s Tencent Holdings.
Openserve, the wholesale division of Telkom, has announced that it will serve as the landing station partner for Google’s massive Equiano submarine cable system in South Africa.
JSE-listed Woolworths Holdings said almost 15% of its turnover came from online channels in its most recent reporting period.
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SpaceX launched an unmanned Crew Dragon craft from Florida to the International Space Station early on Saturday, a milestone for Elon Musk’s goal of enabling humans to live on other planets.
Canada has officially ordered the start of extradition hearings against Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, in a proceeding that promises to be long and politically explosive.
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.
If you worked for five years on one project and had little to show for your efforts, would your boss fire you? The government has been plugging away at the digital terrestrial television migration now for half a decade and the broadcasting sector says the building blocks are still not in place. So what went wrong? And, why
Earlier this week, Blue Label Telecoms, the largest distributor of prepaid vouchers airtime in SA, revealed that 8ta accounts for well under 1% of its airtime revenues. Vodacom, MTN and Cell C contribute 53%, 34% and 10% respectively. There was little doubt 8ta, which was launched in 2010 after Telkom disposed of
