Automated dispatch technology is gaining ground in South Africa as crime drives a surge in security callouts.
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MTN Group has agreed to acquire 100% of IHS Towers, reversing years of selling off its tower infrastructure.
Icasa expects it will soon appoint a service provider that will run South Africa’s next spectrum auction.
Two of South Africa’s biggest trade unions have rejected an improved 6% salary increase offer from Eskom.
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Africa is set to be the largest beneficiary of the $200-billion the Gates Foundation plans to give away.
Astronomers working with South Africa’s SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink will protect their groundbreaking observations.
Even without the Swiftnet sale, Telkom is performing strongly – despite the continuing weak economy.
The Australian equivalent of communications regulator Icasa has had enormous success fighting scam phone calls.
MTN South Africa CEO Charles Molapisi has described the company’s new service as the “Uber of connectivity”.
We’re about to see a new chapter in the attention economy that fuelled the internet.
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Neuralink’s first human patient received an implant from brain-chip start-up Neuralink on Sunday.
Microsoft’s early lead in AI has the company’s stock market value poised to pull decisively ahead of Apple’s in the coming years.
Twitter is building a subscription product as a way to ease its dependence on advertising – a plan that has taken on a heightened priority given the pandemic and pressure from activist investors to accelerate growth.
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