Home affairs says smart ID replacements are now offered at 753 bank branches, beating its target.
Top News
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.
More News
Google will spend $1-billion over the next five years on infrastructure development, skills development and other digital initiatives in Africa, CEO Sundar Pichai said.
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said this week’s outage at Facebook is a reminder government can do more to support the development of local social media platforms.
Demand is increasing in South Africa for electric vehicles but price remains a major barrier to adoption.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has drawn a line in the sand, saying the switch-off of analogue television broadcasts in South Africa will happen by the end of March.
Microsoft launched Windows 11, the latest version of its operating system, on Tuesday, offering better security and a fresh lick of paint. But good luck getting it.
Online learning platform Udemy has filed regulatory paperwork for an initial public offering in the US. Naspers spinoff Prosus is a big investor.
World News
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
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.
