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 decision by Leon Schreiber to hike fees for accessing home affairs’ online verification system will be reviewed in court.
Amid stiff competition, DStv is cutting hardware costs and letting households split subscription payments.
South African shoppers can now search Amazon using images, screenshots or barcodes with Amazon Lens.
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Mobile World Congress, a series of events organised around the world by the mobile industry association the GSMA, is coming to Africa for the first time next year.
Facebook said some users can now send messages between Messenger and Instagram – the first step toward a full integration of the company’s three separate social media services.
Africa’s mobile phone operators are ramping up plans to bring banking to millions of Africans, in some cases for the first time, after the coronavirus crisis caused a surge in use of digital financial services.
Five years after it arrived in Africa, Netflix is struggling to grow beyond the wealthiest segment of the population, held back by poverty, piracy and limited access to broadband.
The number of employed people in South Africa dropped by 2.2 million to 14.1 million in the second quarter, according to a report from Statistics South Africa.
South Africa plans to tap global appetite for green bonds to help fund an infrastructure programme worth as much as R2.3-trillion over the next decade.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it will take “a few years” to solve the issues plaguing the social media company. “I wish I could solve all these issues in three months or six months, but I just think the
One of the worst weeks in Tesla’s 15-year-history has sapped Elon Musk’s net worth and made the moonshot goals underlying his US$2.6bn award seem all the more audacious. The electric car maker’s stock
Facebook is conducting a broad review of all its data practices and taking a much more conservative stance on some policies, moves that could limit advertisers’ ability to target users on the social network, according to people
A sophisticated successor to Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope won’t launch until at least May 2020 to allow for additional testing and fix production errors in a project that will require more money from the US congress
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.
