A year-long inquiry into voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri has led to among more than 200 companies expressing concerns of potential anticompetitive practices, EU antitrust regulators said.

South African business confidence rose to its highest in over three years in May, supported by higher export volumes and manufacturing, data showed on Wednesday.

Promoted | Netcash has partnered with d6 Group to integrate its debit order functionality with the d6+ school management system.

Promoted | Atio Interactive went into liquidation in 2019. Illation assumed responsibility for supporting some of Atio’s customers, as well as providing employment to about 40% of its affected staff.

Eskom has plunged South Africa back into stage-2 load shedding, with the rolling national blackouts set to continue until Sunday night.

EOH Holdings announced on Tuesday that it has sold subsidiary Sybrin for a cash consideration of R334.4-million. The money will be used mainly to pay down debt.

An outage at Fastly, a cloud-based content platform that serves many leading international websites, sent large chunks of the Web offline on Tuesday.

Multiple outages hit websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, affecting news websites and social media platforms.

In recent years, Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, has become Africa’s most attractive tech hub for investors. But that could be imperilled by the government’s decision to suspend Twitter’s operations in the country.

Apple is giving the iPad software the biggest revamp to its Home screen since launching the device over a decade ago, adding a new widgets system.