South Africa’s next mobile growth story will come from connecting machines, not people, writes Pambos Soteriades.
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Anthropic has launched an AI agent in the Slack app that can work alongside employees in group chats.
Stakeholders have until 21 August to weigh in before parliament decides the sector’s regulatory future.
South Africa does not have a digital talent shortage. What it has is a shortage of work-ready talent.
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The most direct competitor to Starlink, Amazon.com’s Project Kuiper, has changed its name as it gears up for a global roll-out.
Faster and more secure identity verification promises to speed up business processes but clear standards are needed.
Discovery Bank is adding the ability for its clients to trade in cryptocurrencies directly in its banking app.
For the second time in four months, Spotify is hiking prices in South Africa – this time, though, there’s more value on offer.
The rand and South African shares and bonds extended their rally on Thursday as investors cheered signs of fiscal discipline.
Cell C is heading to the public market with a proposed JSE listing that pegs the offer price between R29.50 and R35.50/share.
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Google has unveiled a host of updates to its artificial intelligence offerings for cloud computing customers.
SpaceX’s prized Starlink satellite business is still burning through more cash than it brings in.
Ether has grabbed the cryptocurrency spotlight after posting its biggest jump in more than a month.
Global PC shipments returned to growth in the first quarter after two years of decline.
Pandemics don’t cause riots. They do, though, create the perfect conditions for turmoil in fragile societies that are already powder kegs of sky-high unemployment, and where Covid-19 has inevitably hit the poor hardest.
The mayhem of the last few days is a reminder of the danger that South Africa continues to live with, as well as an indication of the disfigurement of its law enforcement institutions.
