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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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South Africa has officially exited the third wave of Covid-19 infections, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said.
Africa’s lack of industrial development puts it in a strong position to develop low-carbon manufacturing, McKinsey & Co said.
Government and some state-owned entities appear to be painting themselves into a corner on the user-pays principle, which government often uses to justify e-tolls.
South Africa’s mining industry has given its backing to moving the economy away from coal but said it must be done gradually and responsibly.
China’s multiyear crackdown on the crypto industry may have reached its apex on Friday, cementing a shift in the balance of power away from one of the countries that first embraced the digital currency world.
Mining companies in South Africa are considering spending as much as R40-billion to construct 2GW of power generation capacity.
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Netflix has soared past Walt Disney in market value on Thursday, taking the title of most valuable media company from the film, TV and theme-park giant. Shares of the video streaming service rose as much as 2% to
The US justice department has opened a criminal probe into whether traders are manipulating the price of bitcoin and other digital currencies, dramatically ratcheting up scrutiny of red-hot markets that critics say are rife
Qualcomm plans to unveil a dedicated chip to power standalone virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets as it seeks to break into new businesses beyond smartphones, according to people familiar with the
Bitcoin fell to a six-week low, as selloff that began in early May dropped the cryptocurrency’s price below $7 500 for the first time since mid-April. Bitcoin slumped 7.3% to $7 495 as of 1.57pm in New York
Ousted communications director-general Mamodupi Mohlala says the way communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda fired her was akin to a “public execution”. Mohlala tells TechCentral that she had questioned the minister on several issues related to the running of the department. “But I never expected it to come to a head like this.”
Super 5 Media, once one of SA’s most promising new pay-TV operators, is coming apart at the seams. TechCentral can reveal exclusively that management has gone to ground amid signs the company, once regarded as the strongest potential competitor to incumbent MultiChoice and its DStv service, is collapsing.

































