China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
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Attackers are bypassing the very tools for e-mails designed to prevent them from gaining access to businesses.
Apple led the market with a 20% share, the largest among the top five brands, according to Counterpoint Research.
South Africa’s electricity supply has entered 2026 in its strongest position in at least five years, Eskom has said.
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Zoom has added two-factor authentication as a new layer of security for the video conferencing app.
Huawei plans to introduce its HarmonyOS operating system, seen as the company’s best bet to replace Google’s Android mobile operating system, on smartphones next year.
Ethiopia has set a new deadline of February 2021 to complete the partial privatisation of the country’s telecommunications industry, with carriers such as Orange, Vodafone Group and MTN Group keen to participate.
Some of Wall Street’s biggest players are viewing the stock market’s recent tech-led selloff as a bout of turbulence rather than the start of a longer slide – and they don’t see it as a reason to run for the door.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said consensus is emerging on a plan to revive an economy mired in the worst recession since 1992.
South Africa faces a precipitous economic and political collapse by 2030 unless it changes its economic model and implements growth-friendly policies, according to Eunomix Business & Economics.
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Uber Technologies has halted autonomous vehicle tests after one of its cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in what is likely the first pedestrian fatality involving the technology. The 49-year-old woman, Elaine
Facebook shares fell the most in two months on Monday as American and European officials demanded answers to reports that a political advertising firm retained information on millions of Facebook users
Apple is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time, using a secret manufacturing facility near its California headquarters to make small numbers of the screens for testing purposes, according to people
The rapid evolution of crypto assets such as bitcoin may one day make them a threat to the financial system, Mark Carney, chairman of the Financial Stability Board, said in a letter to Group of 20 finance leaders. “Wider use and
There will soon be clarity on how hundreds of millions of rand in the Universal Service Fund will be spent. The money is meant to be used to facilitate the roll-out of telecommunications infrastructure in underserviced and rural parts of SA, but has remained largely untapped for years. Now Phineas Moleele, the newly appointed CEO at the Universal Service & Access Agency of SA (Usaasa), the government body established to administer the fund, is promising to start using the money in the fund.
With MTN’s cellular network acquisitions in emerging markets on hold, analysts say the group can probably be considered a mature business. But there are still opportunities in the business services sector, they say. MTN told shareholders on Thursday that acquisition opportunities in emerging markets are becoming harder to find.
