Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
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Ransomware payments offer short-term relief but significantly increase long-term cyber risk, Rubrik has warned.
The State IT Agency has lashed out at the City of Tshwane after electricity was cut to one of its facilities.
Netflix has announced an overhaul of its mobile app, with shorts- and reels-style content for phones to take centre stage.
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South Africa’s Mergence Group has bought a 26% stake in local customer reward start-up 2Engage as part of global expansion plans targeting retail consumers.
South Africa’s annual inflation rate dropped more than forecast to the lowest in almost nine years in October, providing some room for the central bank to ease policy.
Communications regulator Icasa said on Tuesday that it will probe the just-signed expanded roaming agreement between MTN South Africa and Cell C.
Telkom on Tuesday rubbished talk among some JSE traders that it is planning a hostile bid for Cell C.
Takealot expects Black Friday sales to rise by about 80% to R352-million this year. The online retail group sees the last Friday of November as a key driver and measure of its growth in South Africa.
Bond investors aren’t showing much faith in Eskom’s new boss, with yields on the company’s 2021 dollar bonds jumping the most in more than three months after the appointment of André de Ruyter.
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Jeff Bezos just snuck past Warren Buffett to become the third richest person on Earth. The Amazon.com founder’s net worth was US$65,05bn on Thursday (R923bn at the time of writing), topping Buffett by $32m on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has presided over five new phones during his two-and-a-half years running the company, none of which has managed to turn around steadily declining smartphone sales. Some analysts are wondering who would buy a sixth. BlackBerry
Eight-year-old Lillian looks nervously at her king. It’s stuck; hemmed in on F3 by her opponent’s castle and queen. Two moves later, it’s all over. Checkmate. She looks around, despondently. Behind her around 20 other youngsters hunch over their chess boards
At some point, everyone knew, Netflix’s subscriber growth in the US had to slow down. The company’s video streaming service is nearing market saturation among its core demographic
