Ransomware payments offer short-term relief but significantly increase long-term cyber risk, Rubrik has warned.
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Elon Musk’s record on disinformation, power and accountability makes licensing Starlink in South Africa unacceptable.
Africa Bitcoin Corporation is handing a 4% stake in the company to a newly appointed financial adviser.
A social media feud between Elon Musk and Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary has reignited a long-running debate in aviation.
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Bitcoin futures may be more important than many in the market appreciate, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The merged departments of communications and telecommunications & postal services will in future be known as the department of communications & digital technologies.
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub took home 23.9% less in the 2019 financial year after he earned significantly less from short- and long-term incentives.
Huawei is to delay the launch of its first foldable smartphone, the Mate X, saying it wants to test the device further after rival Samsung suffered issues with its own foldable phone earlier this year.
Pioneering South African online kitchen and homeware retailer Yuppiechef is opening more physical stores in an omni-channel retail push.
MultiChoice Group-owned video streaming platform Showmax will offer live sports to all customers in South Africa, effective immediately, it said on Friday.
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Remember that time in the 1990s when Apple was almost bankrupt and in disrepair? Take note, Yahoo, Apple’s market capitalisation reached the US$600bn mark on Tuesday, the second company in the world to reach the milestone. Apple reached a high of $644/share, reaching a market cap that continues to put space between
Consumers the world around have fallen so hard for the charms of tablets that sales are expected to balloon by 98% this year. Research firm Gartner forecasts that tablet sales will reach 118,9m units this year, up from 60m units in 2011. The firm also pegs tablet sales at 182,4m units in 2013 and 369,2m units in 2016
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom netted US$400m for selling his two-year-old startup to Facebook for $1bn. That’s according to a report by Wired, which cites sources indicating that Systrom holds 40% of the company he founded — an impressively large chunk for any entrepreneur at the time of exit, let alone one on his first company
Iran plans to disconnect itself from the Internet and replace popular services such as Google, Yahoo and Hotmail with homegrown, Iranian services, according to a report in the International Business Times. The IBT writes that Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for information and communications
