South African businesses prepared to shut down operations and supermarkets were inundated by shoppers as the country braced for a three-week lockdown.

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The Internet Service Providers’ Association has called on its members to raise bandwidth caps and take other measures to support their customers during the looming Covid-19 lockdown.

Movie theatre company Nu Metro is closing all its cinema complexes and accompanying operations with immediate effect, it said on Tuesday.

In the absence of evidence that has withstood public scrutiny, President Cyril Ramaphosa may have gone too far by imposing a three-week national lockdown. By Seán Mfundza Muller.

Gustav Praekelt, founder of the non-profit behind the department of health’s wildly successful Covid-19 WhatsApp platform, joins the podcast to talk about the service, and how it ratcheted up more than two million users in short order.

YouTube will reduce the quality of videos around the world starting on Tuesday, an effort by the world’s most popular video site to ease Internet traffic during the coronavirus outbreak.

Companies and customers are being forced to explore new ways to do business, and ironically they may discover that these options are better.

A month ago, back when things made sense, Wall Street was convinced that when the rout came, high-priced technology stocks would lead the way down. That’s not how it’s playing out.

Cisco Systems said its Webex collaboration service is experiencing a staggering jump in use as companies look to find a way to securely connect workers confined to their homes.