Meta’s pick of an Indian fintech founder signals the scale of the company’s payment ambitions for WhatsApp.
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“RAMageddon” has reached Apple users, with DRAM prices nearly doubling as AI data centres soak up global supply.
IBM has unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-nanometre chip technology.
Vodacom is deepening its relationship with Amazon as both chase a bigger share of household spending.
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It’s not okay to have to wait in the dark from early in the morning, for much of the day, to get access to an essential public service.
Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value, hit a record high on Sunday.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has predicted that gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10-20 years.
Trade union Solidarity has signed a deal with a US company to export South African IT skills – online, from South Africa.
Business conditions in South Africa’s private sector improved for the fifth month running in September.
eMedia has told investors it plans to boost the production quality of its eVOD and e.tv products using visual effects.
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Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett has said the frenzy is beginning to resemble the dot-com bubble.
Sony has slashed the full-year sales forecast for its PlayStation 5 console amid weaker-than-expected holiday sales.
Mozilla, the maker of web browser Firefox, is cutting about 60 jobs as part of a shake-up under a new CEO.
A robotic moon lander built by a private aerospace company was set for launch early on Wednesday.
Elon Musk’s decision to invest US$1.5-billion of Tesla’s cash in bitcoin is financial dynamite that unites two speculative bubbles. There’s plenty to suggest the move is inadvisable
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.
