South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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The fight over who owns South Africa’s transmission grid has burst spectacularly into the open.
South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
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Taiwan has imposed restrictions on semiconductor exports to South Africa, though experts see the risk to the country as low.
Blu Label could pay a special dividend to shareholders if its planned listing of Cell C on the JSE next year goes ahead.
Google is seeking to avoid a forced sale of part of its online advertising business in its latest faceoff with US antitrust enforcers.
MultiChoice is at an inflection point, and the new board will be judged quickly on whether it can deliver a credible turnaround.
France’s Group Canal+ moved quickly on Monday to stamp its authority on MultiChoice Group following the conclusion of the deal.
MVNOs are key to Cell C’s growth strategy as it works towards becoming a “network operator of the future”.
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Microsoft will let go of 1 900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week.
“I don’t want to control it, but if I have so little influence at the company at this stage,” Elon Musk has told Tesla investors.
Apple’s smartphone shipments in China shrank 2.1% in the final quarter of 2023, hurt by intensifying competition from Huawei.
Microsoft’s stock market value crossed the $3-trillion milestone for the first time on Wednesday.
It sounds like science-fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. But scientists are making huge strides in turning the concept into reality.
Apple has seemingly made a key concession in the battle over the smartphone giant’s market power and treatment of developers. “Seemingly” is the key word here.
