The rand is stronger against the US dollar than it was a decade ago as a falling dollar and surging gold price lift the local currency.
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Amazon is cutting 16 000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three months.
iCAUR has confirmed it will enter South Africa with 20 dealerships, launching two models and a national support network.
AI wearables are advancing fast, but affordability and functionality will keep smartphones firmly in charge for now.
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The cut-off low pressure system that brought floods to KwaZulu-Natal this week has wreaked havoc on Openserve’s infrastructure in the region, the Telkom-owned company said on Wednesday.
Chris Maroleng, the former MTN Group senior executive, has been fired as chief operating officer of the public broadcaster with immediate effect. He had been in the role for just over a year.
Tesla expects to have full self-driving cars in which humans will not have to touch the steering wheel by around the second quarter of next year.
Eskom “isn’t on the brink of financial collapse” and the government has the problem “well under control”, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has said.
When Nasa wanted to phone home from outer space, a company it chose to help make the call was Snapt, a start-up from Johannesburg backed by billionaires Johann Rupert and Nicky Oppenheimer.
Samsung will delay the launch of its first foldable smartphone after some early reviewers reported issues with the phone’s screen.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is probably not a happy man today, with the company reporting disappointing fourth quarter 2011 earnings , including a dramatic 58% decline in net income. Many analysts were unsure where Amazon would stand this past quarter with the launch of the much-hyped US$199 Kindle Fire tablet
For months, Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has seemed incapable of getting anything right. Its PlayBook tablet went on sale without e-mail (unless attached to a BlackBerry). Its network was blacked out for days with scarcely a word from the company. It has
Remember the old joke about the dim tailor who makes a loss on each piece of clothing but hopes to make it up in volume? That describes the market for flat-panel screens for televisions. None of the companies that produce liquid crystal display (LCD) panels — Samsung and LG Display from South Korea
Most people running a business that could end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit would keep a low profile. Not Kim Dotcom. The boss of Megaupload, a popular website that let users store and share music, films and other content, Dotcom went out of
