Chery has agreed to acquire Nissan’s Pretoria plant, opening the door for Chinese vehicle manufacturing in South Africa.
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Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
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Telecoms industry lobbyists claim Europe’s latest regulatory moves show the “Fair Share” debate is far from settled.
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Telkom’s mobile business is still flying. In a financial update for the nine months to end-December 2020, published on Monday, the company said service revenue from mobile soared by more than 40% year on year.
Shares in Mustek leapt by more than 13% on Monday after it told shareholders that its headline earnings per share would more than double in the six months ended 31 December 2020.
Vodacom South Africa said on Monday that owners of Apple’s latest iPhone 12 smartphones can finally connect to the company 5G network.
The rand weakened early on Monday after South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination plan suffered a setback over the weekend as the government put on hold the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine in its programme.
Some people are laughing through gritted teeth at Elon Musk’s tweets promoting dogecoin – the joke may ultimately be on all of crypto.
City Power, Johannesburg’s municipal electricity supplier, has moved to a two-hour load-shedding schedule and announced changes to its load-shedding blocks – both implemented with immediate effect.
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Marc Benioff, the billionaire co-founder of software maker Salesforce.com, is making a play to project his influence far beyond Silicon Valley with the purchase of Time magazine.
BMW has unveiled the latest iteration of its planned electric-car flagship, morphing what started out as low-slung cruiser into a sporty SUV, as the German luxury car maker scrambles to keep pace with rivals.
Adobe Systems, the maker of Photoshop, gave a sales forecast that topped analysts’ average estimate, signalling that strong demand for its creative products continue to drive growth.
Volkswagen is ending worldwide production of its iconic Beetle. The last one will roll off the line from the company’s factory in the state of Puebla, Mexico in July 2019.
The governments of Brazil, China, Russia, India and SA have agreed to support a new, R3bn undersea cable that will connect Brazil with SA and Angola, and provide the region with onward connectivity
State-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech is considering WiMax technology, using radio frequency spectrum it has already been assigned, to build its planned R1,1bn national broadband network. The company has already been licensed
