Johannesburg’s enterprise IT departments, not Cape Town’s start-ups, are driving a worrying tech skills exodus.
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South African mobile users spend far less time on 5G than their counterparts in markets like India, a new analysis shows.
Oracle’s total workforce declined 13%, or about 21 000 employees, last year, partly driven by the adoption of AI.
Namibia on Monday said it had dismissed an appeal by Starlink against the rejection of its licence applications.
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With a series of record highs and crushing sell-offs, 2025 has been a roller-coaster ride for bitcoin.
Sim-swap fraud, identity impersonation and large-scale Sim-farm operations are no longer fringe problems.
The high court in Johannesburg has dismissed an application for Nkosana Makate’s Vodacom payout to be frozen.
The new Spendl debit card aims to simplify digital assets by letting users spend crypto like ordinary money.
A fledgling social media platform has asked the US to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself.
Paramount Skydance on Monday launched an audacious bid to snatch Warner Bros Discovery from Netflix.
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The entry of Big Tech into finance creates new risks that may need new rules, global banking regulators said.
Samsung has taken a big swipe at Apple, taking direct aim at its biggest rival’s “Crush” ad for its new iPad Pro models.
Microsoft is asking some of its China-based employees to consider transferring outside the country.
Huawei is revamping its retail strategy as it seeks to retake the premium electronics throne in China.
What’s fascinating about Facebook is that it’s held to an unfairly high standard not only by its critics, but also by its own executives. By Matthew Yglesias.
Investors ought to be clamouring over GlobalFoundries’ $1-billion initial public offering. Except the company is struggling to make money in a chip boom.

































