Ransomware payments offer short-term relief but significantly increase long-term cyber risk, Rubrik has warned.
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Elon Musk’s record on disinformation, power and accountability makes licensing Starlink in South Africa unacceptable.
Africa Bitcoin Corporation is handing a 4% stake in the company to a newly appointed financial adviser.
A social media feud between Elon Musk and Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary has reignited a long-running debate in aviation.
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A joint venture led by technology group Gijima was disqualified from road management tenders because it drafted and dated a document on one day and had it validated by a commissioner of oaths the next.
Vodacom Group hiked its interim dividend by 9.2% to R4.15/share (R3.80 previously) on strong headline earnings growth in the first half of its 2021 financial year and a dividend receipt from Kenya’s Safaricom.
Prosus, the giant investor in online classifieds, food delivery and payments, expects to report a 16.9% to 22.7% growth in earnings per share for the six months to the end of September, it said on Monday.
Apple’s ad tracking is the target of two complaints to Spanish and German authorities by a privacy advocate whose earlier legal battles are forcing Facebook to change the way it transfers data.
Vodacom Group reinstated growth targets and said it has the financial strength to take part in a long-awaited auction of broadband spectrum in South Africa.
MultiChoice Group chief financial officer Tim Jacobs has said in an interview with TechCentral that the pay-television broadcaster will “keep an open mind” to any approach by France’s Canal+.
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AT&T has been cleared by a judge to take over Time Warner in a $85-billion (R1.1-trillion) deal that will fuel the mobile phone giant’s evolution into a media powerhouse and could spark a wave of new mergers
Chinese serial entrepreneur Lei Jun has been compared with Steve Jobs. Now, analysts are saying the smartphone giant he built could be twice as expensive as Apple. Xiaomi deserves to trade at a premium
The US senate plans to advance legislation to restore penalties on ZTE after President Donald Trump drew sharp criticism for easing restrictions to get the Chinese company back in business. The senate is voting late
The Barack Obama-era network neutrality regulations that barred broadband providers from slowing or blocking Internet traffic expired Monday, a major milestone in a debate that continues in the courts and the
TopTV will launch high-definition channels next year as it takes its fight for subscribers with incumbent pay-TV operator MultiChoice to the next level. The company, owned by On Digital Media (ODM), says it expects to launch
A battle over control of Telkom may be on the cards. Communications minister Roy Padayachie has warned that government does not want to lose the control it exercises over the JSE-listed group when special rights it enjoys expire early next year.
