Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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Ford has agreed to pay a fine of R35-million and to offer three compensation options to the 56 Ford Kuga 1.6 EcoBoost owners whose vehicles caught fire.
Nigeria’s central bank plans to license more payment providers in an effort to improve the country’s financial inclusion rate to 80% by the end of next year from about 60%.
Telkom has withdrawn a cautionary notice to shareholders about its proposed acquisition of Cell C after the board of the mobile operator spurned its approaches.
Shares in Telkom soared shortly after markets opened in Johannesburg on Friday as investors took cheer from the fact that the it won’t be burdened with rival Cell C’s debt problems.
Eskom, South Africa’s biggest polluter, is struggling to curb its highest particulate emissions in two decades after its Kendal power plant was damaged during a strike.
Cell C is pulling the plug on Black, its ill-fated video-on-demand platform in which it invested well north of R1-billion since its launch just two years ago.
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Apple has hitched itself to music celebrities to pitch Apple Music, the US$10/month (South Africa: R59,99/month) digital service launched a year ago. There was the very public catering to Taylor Swift. Apple broke out its
Tim Cook, who is marking his five-year anniversary as Apple’s CEO this week, received shares valued at US$373m (R5,3bn at the time of writing) during that period as the iPhone maker’s stock doubled on his
It is looking increasingly likely that computer hackers have in fact successfully attacked what had…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made his first big share sale to fund his family’s philanthropic initiative. The sale of more than 760 000 shares of Facebook stock, valued at about US$95m, was made by Chan Zuckerberg
