Optimism bias, weak oversight and hidden complexity have helped derail some of South Africa’s biggest IT projects.
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South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
Cape Town start-up Shiprazor has raised R44-million, led by Norrsken22, to expand its courier network and AI tools.
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Naspers South Africa CEO Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa has sold R240-million worth of shares in the company.
Online sales growth at Shoprite is thriving even after the loss of the eBucks partnership to Pick n Pay.
Government is putting the final touches to a package that aims to shield businesses against punitive US trade tariffs.
Five former executives have hit back at “false claims” that they engaged in BEE fronting and improper conduct.
Sonja De Bruyn has lashed out at former Dimension Data executives over an allegation that her company misappropriated R5-million related to the sale of The Campus.
Sipho Maseko, Neo Lesela, Khanyisile Kweyama and Sonja De Bruyn will be among the new indirect shareholders.
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X has blocked users from searching for Taylor Swift after fake sexually explicit images of the singer proliferated online.
Spotify said Apple’s new plan to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act is “a complete and total farce”.
The US is expected to award billions of dollars in subsidies in coming weeks to top semiconductor companies.
From underperformance in AI chips for data centres to soft demand for CPUs for PCs, Intel just can’t seem to catch a break.
The more utopian scenarios for crypto, whether proponents realise it or not, rely on the notion that crypto remains simultaneously fringe and mainstream. That will be a hard trick to pull off.
It was kind of inevitable that Tesla’s biggest challenger wouldn’t be a car company. Apple makes for the perfect nemesis and could teach its Californian cousin a thing or two about reliability and delivery.
