Starlink dominates South African headlines, but pricing and market realities raise questions about who it’s really for.
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ASML’s grip on EUV chip-making technology is fuelling the global AI boom – and soaring profits.
Social media giants will face scrutiny this week over allegations that their platforms are fuelling a youth mental health crisis.
Nvidia has released three open-source AI models aimed at helping create better weather forecasts, faster.
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MTN Nigeria said it has “not been accused of any wrongdoing” after reports emerged at the weekend that it’s being investigated by the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
While Telkom is cleaning up in mobile, its fixed-line business continues to feel pressure as competition bites and as the company continues to switch off wireline infrastructure. But the numbers are far from shocking.
Bitcoin soared to the highest level in a year, extending a run that’s seen prices more than double since March.
MTN Nigeria says it’s being investigated by the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over a listing of shares on the stock exchange.
The top job at one of South Africa’s biggest and most-troubled companies is open again for the 11th time in a decade and it’s unclear anyone is ready to fill it.
Phakamani Hadebe will step down as CEO of Eskom at the end of July, deepening a crisis that Goldman Sachs has described as the biggest threat to the country’s economy.
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IBM is announcing on Tuesday that it has made major advances towards creating a practical, full-scale quantum computer, a fabled, theoretical machine that relies on the tiniest atomic properties to compute problems faster than any supercomputer that exists today. Scientists at IBM Research said that their
Terry Lundgren and Kevin Ryan know and like each other. But when it comes to the future of retailing the boss of Macy’s, an American department-store giant, and the chief executive of Gilt Groupe, an online retailer, disagree wildly. Lundgren remains a firm believer in an empire of bricks and mortar. Ryan is betting big
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run,” observed Roy Amara, an American futurologist. This is certainly proving true of retailers and their attitude to the Internet. After a panic at the turn of the millennium about the impact on their
The application Windows Phone owners have been anticipating for eight months and counting has finally arrived, but it’s nothing to call home about yet. Skype, as expected, has finally released a beta version of its application for Windows Phone 7. The release includes support for Skype basics such as audio
