Legislative changes and lower-cost infrastructure are driving the advance of cryptocurrencies into mainstream payments.
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Electricity market liberalisation, new trading rules and grid reform will define renewable energy progress in 2026.
South Africa’s latest trial of digital sound broadcasting – using DRM technology – is set to be launched next month.
The EU has formally rejected a proposal from operators that big tech companies should help pay for infrastructure.
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Eskom said on Wednesday that it has added up to 800MW of supply to the national grid after unit 3 at the Kusile power station was brought online this week.
In January, Eskom filed a contentious tariff proposal. In it were a number of proposed changes that will have wide ramifications for all users of electricity, even if they are not directly supplied by Eskom.
National treasury has published a new five-year contract for the supply of “transversal” telecommunications services to government entities worth billions of rand to service providers.
The SABC has concluded a lengthy retrenchment programme and will officially have shed 621 jobs, or at least 21% of its workforce, by the end of this month as it moves to avoid the need for further bailouts.
Apple Pay has finally been launched in South Africa. Customers from Nedbank, Absa and Discovery Bank were on Tuesday morning able to load their bank cards into their Apple wallets.
Apple is launching its Independent Repair Provider programme in South Africa and several other markets around the world starting this week.
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Amazon’s Alexa voice-powered assistant is preparing to gain another high profile music service in the form of Apple Music.
If all goes as planned with the scheduled SpaceX launch on Sunday, a start-up called HawkEye 360 will have a trio of satellites resembling toaster ovens circling the globe, scanning for pirate radio.
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg told employees to investigate financial dealings by George Soros, the billionaire who criticised the company at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.
America’s next moon landing will be made by private companies, not Nasa. Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Thursday that nine US companies will compete in delivering experiments to the lunar surface.
Hewlett-Packard is unlikely to sell its PC business and will probably choose to spin it off into a separate company still owned by HP, says Frank van Rees, the company’s SA MD. HP shocked the markets a month ago when it said it was considering spinning off or even
Stellenbosch-based start-up Boom.fm is an online music discovery service that encourages group listening and looks set to make more South Africans familiar with a wider variety of local music. It’s also going to provide local artists with an additional
