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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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Dozens of companies have appealed to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ease restrictions on travel from Southern Africa that are hampering trade.
Zimbabwe has begun daily 12-hour power cuts due limited generation at its thermal plant and repairs on Kariba.
Vodacom has expanded the deployment of solar-powered sites in an effort, it said, to reduce carbon emissions.
African Bank has appointed Unathi Mtya as group CIO with immediate effect. She was previously chief technology officer at Grindrod Bank.
South Africa is considering the introduction of electronic “vaccine passports” to allow people access to public and private spaces and venues.
To say the last few weeks at TechCentral have been busy is to put it mildly. But what you’re looking at today is the fruit of that industry, and months of planning that came before it.
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Facebook has been conducting market research in recent weeks to determine whether an ad-free version paid by subscriptions would spur more people to join the social network, according to people familiar with
A few hours after Elon Musk berated analysts for what he perceived as unimaginative questions, Volkswagen has said it was writing a cheque for batteries that almost match Tesla’s entire market value. VW has awarded
The earnings report started optimistically enough, with Elon Musk forecasting an end to Tesla’s cash-burning days after blazing through another $1bn last quarter. But by the end of Tesla’s first-quarter conference call, Musk
Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining firm embroiled in the scandal over its work for US President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, said it’s shutting down all operations effective immediately. The firm said on Wednesday
SA is getting a new fixed-line telecommunications network operator, TechCentral can report exclusively. The company, called Metrofibre Networx, enjoys the backing of several heavy hitters, including former Absa CEO Steve Booysen and Dark Fibre Africa co-founder Malcolm Kirby. Metrofibre Networx, which is led by Kirby, will focus almost exclusively on delivering high-speed fibre connectivity to businesses
New Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) chairman Stephen Mncube will be sworn into office on Friday. However, analysts question how much power he’ll really have, saying…

































