Home affairs says smart ID replacements are now offered at 753 bank branches, beating its target.
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The co-founder who led Nvidia for 33 years has resigned after a week of scandal. CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO.
Bob Group says customers’ card details should be treated as exposed after a breach of its systems in late October.
SunCentral 1 supplies three customers. SolarAfrica says its next two plants will share their output among 42.
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Cooperative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has gazetted the extension of the national state of disaster for another month.
Vantage Data Centers, a large, US-headquartered data centre specialist, has announced it has earmarked R15-billion to build what it claims will be the largest data centre campus in Africa.
US-based Vantage Data Centers on Wednesday revealed plans to invest R15-billion in a massive new Johannesburg campus on a 30-acre site in Waterfall.
Eskom will suspend load shedding at 5am on Thursday but has warned that “significant risks remain” and the rolling blackouts could be implemented again “at short notice”.
Icasa said it will oppose Telkom’s court application that seeks to stop it from withdrawing temporarily assigned spectrum at the end of next month.
The Nigerian government is waging war on its technology industry.
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It’s been a hallmark of the tech bull run. If you want to play, be prepared for some awful days. That proved true again on Monday as the group’s highest flyers led the way down in the market’s worst day since April
Facebook’s Instagram is estimated to be worth more than US$100-billion (R1.4-trillion), if it were a standalone company, marking a 100-fold return for the app was purchased in 2012, according to data compiled by
Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI said it has created software capable of beating teams of five skilled human players in the videogame Dota 2, a milestone in computer science. The achievement puts San Francisco
Bitcoin traded above $6 000 on Monday morning after dropping below that level for the first time since February over the weekend, with the digital currency heading for a second straight quarterly decline
JSE-listed technology group Gijima has its sights on the local telecommunications market. It says it will either acquire or partner with a company that has its own network. CEO Jonas Bogoshi says Gijima has decided to play a more direct role in cloud computing, including hosted services and voice and data technologies.
Zimbabwe cellphone subscribers have increased four-fold since a unity government took office last year, but local firms say they battle to attract investors who worry the political truce won’t last. In 2008, when the local currency was ravaged by world-record hyperinflation, Sim cards were selling for up to US$220 — not including a phone.

































