South Africa has a curious habit of legislating fantasies and then acting surprised when the real economy ignores them.
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Confusion in the electrical sector has led to claims that all Schuko plugs and sockets are banned. This is not true.
Novus Holdings is vowing to fight a Takeover Regulation Panel ruling that it must increase its offer to Mustek shareholders.
Fifty years after television’s arrival in South Africa, the SABC faces hard questions about relevance, funding and its mandate.
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Ethiopian authorities shut down the Internet for a third day to prevent students from cheating in national examinations.
Google has taken the surprise step of confirming that leaked images claiming to be of its next Pixel smartphone do in fact show the new device.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said a massive cyber attack on his messaging service originated in China, raising questions about whether Beijing tried to disrupt protests on the streets of Hong Kong.
China’s Hisense is making strong headway in the entry-level and midrange smartphone segments in South Africa, and is eyeing at least 10% market share, in volume terms, by the end of the year.
The University of the Witwatersrand and IBM have formed a partnership to bring quantum computing to Africa as part of the US technology giant’s efforts to expand the technology around the world.
Vodacom Group’s unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo has petitioned the nation’s top administrative court to reverse a government order withdrawing its 2G licence.
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Shares in Facebook fell sharply shortly after markets opened in the US on Monday, falling by more than 13%, below Friday’s listing price of $38/share, as investors fretted about the company’s ability to grow as quickly as the high listing valuation demands. The share, which seesawed in its first day
On Friday, social network Facebook will list on Wall Street in the third largest initial public offering (IPO) in US history and the largest in the technology sector. The initial share price is set at US$38 and, with 421m shares being listed, the move will make
Apple is set to release a major update to its cloud service, iCloud, that will include new features for sharing images and may be positioned to compete with Instagram, the social photography service that was recently acquired by Facebook for US$1bn in cash
Facebook knows one of the biggest challenges it faces is monetising its mobile platforms and so it’s gradually overhauling them to do just that. When it originally filed its S-1 documents ahead of its listing on the stock market, Facebook conceded that its inability
