Despite cost pressures, South Africa’s cloud market is on track to exceed R100-billion by 2029, according to BMIT.
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The EU is accelerating its Iris2 satellite network to secure sovereign communications and reduce reliance on US systems.
The decision by Leon Schreiber to hike fees for accessing home affairs’ online verification system will be reviewed in court.
South African shoppers can now search Amazon using images, screenshots or barcodes with Amazon Lens.
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South Africa’s fifth mobile operator, Rain, has launched “unlimited 4G for phones”, offering uncapped on-device data for R379/month on a month-to-month contract.
Deal value in the cryptocurrency world surpassed the total from 2019 in the first six months of the year as tie-ups became less frequent but bigger, according to PwC.
Standard Bank Group is planning to scale up some of its operations and further digitise its systems to fend off fintech firms encroaching on its client base.
Telkom has approached the Competition Tribunal, seeking to have the spectrum arrangements between Vodacom and Rain declared a merger and therefore notifiable in terms of the Competition Act.
Nic Rudnick, the group CEO of Liquid Telecom, sees a future for the company beyond simply providing wholesale and retail connectivity. He wants to reimagine Liquid as a technology solutions company.
Zoom Video Communications said on Wednesday that it’s rolling out a promised end-to-end encryption feature to secure user meetings and announced a raft of new products.
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Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled out the Echo, prompting millions of people to start talking
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is about to have a very big week. On Wednesday, an award of 353 939 restricted shares he received before a promotion in 2014 will vest. At the end of last week, the grant was worth
Walmart is close to finalising a deal to buy a majority stake in India’s leading e-commerce company for at least $12bn and may complete the agreement in the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter
It was chip makers’ turn behind the tech woodshed last week as investors punished shares of the leading producers of computer hardware. Semiconductor stocks sank a third day on Friday, with losses spilling over to Apple
MTN SA appears to have put the worst of its troubles, including its damaging billing-system problems, behind it and has gained market share in the past six months on the back of a jump in prepaid subscribers. Data revenues have leapt higher as demand for broadband Internet access continues to grow and the group has revised its full-year SA subscriber expectations sharply upwards on the back of a strong first-half performance.
Cell C can continue using its controversial new branding, which includes a design that resembles the copyright symbol. There’s even a “reasonable possibility” it will be successful in registering “Cell ©” as a trademark, despite the fact that various applications it made in December 2009 have been “provisionally declined” by the Registrar of Trademarks. These are the views of Don MacRobert, one of the country’s leading intellectual property and trademarks lawyers, who says the cellular operator can continue using the branding despite the registrar’s decision, which was handed down on 2 August, just two days before Cell C unveiled its new branding.
