A quartet of newly approved projects is chasing spare grid capacity, not South Africa’s best solar resources.
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Telkom fought to keep its network and South Africa lost a decade. Eskom risks making the same mistake.
eMedia’s landmark deal with Netflix puts its flagship new drama on the streaming giant’s platform a day after broadcast.
In this episode, the Car of the Year controversy, Ferrari’s divisive EV and Stellantis MD Mike Whitfield is in the studio.
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Standard Bank said on Wednesday that customers using its mobile banking app have been experiencing slow response times and intermittent problems when trying to log in.
Unit 1 at the Koeberg nuclear power station near Cape Town tripped on Monday, but Eskom – which operates the facility – said there is no reason for concern about safety.
Mark Harris is stepping down as MD of Altron unit Altron Nexus and will be replaced with immediate effect by financial director Kennedy Chinganya. Harris will “handle special projects” until end-November.
Tencent investor Prosus – the spinoff of JSE-listed technology and media conglomerate Naspers – is placing its bet on India as the next big technology market.
Eskom has posted a fourth consecutive annual loss as it continued to service a mountain of debt, repaired ageing plants and lost electricity revenue because of a drop in demand.
Microsoft has announced that the next major version of Windows will be available for installation starting on 5 October, though not all users will be eligible to get it on launch – if they can get it at all.
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SAP, Europe’s biggest technology company, has agreed to buy Qualtrics International for $8-billion in cash, preempting the US enterprise software company’s plans to go public.
Volkswagen plans to add a subcompact crossover costing about €18 000 (R290 000) to its all-electric I.D. range, expanding its lineup of zero-emissions vehicles that are more affordable than those of Tesla.
Tesla has chosen Robyn Denholm to succeed Elon Musk as board chair, selecting an independent director to contend with the car maker’s mercurial CEO following his run-ins with regulators and investors.
Ever since Chinese President Xi Jinping marked the opening of the first World Internet Conference in 2014, it was meant to usher in a new era of digital openness and project China as a champion of global cyber governance. Those promises are now starting to lie fallow.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs opened the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, demoting the computer to “just a device” and talking up how it wants to “move your hub, the centre of your digital life, into the cloud”
Think about how many of your friends use Nokia handsets today as opposed to a few years ago. Chances are many of them have ditched the Finnish handset manufacturer’s devices for alternatives from companies such as Apple, Samsung
