South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.
Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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Parliament has slammed the Post Office’s business rescue practitioners over a request for a closed-door meeting.
A World Bank-linked fund has backed plans to cut South Africa’s reliance on coal, unlocking up to $2.6-billion in financing.
The MVNO boom is resulting in increased competition in South Africa’s telecoms sector, benefiting consumers.
Sustained unemployment and high levels of urbanisation have created a large population of people desperate for work.
MultiChoice Group’s diversification strategy is paying off in light of the dismal performance of its core pay-TV business.
MultiChoice Group has lost 1.2 million linear broadcasting subscribers in the past year, a decline of about 8%.
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Tencent is relying on one-time bitter rival ByteDance to promote its most important videogame release in years.
If 2022 was the year that “broke bitcoin”, 2023 has been the year of trauma recovery.
The rally in Apple, the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, is showing no signs of easing.
Regulators are probing Adobe’s cancellation rules for software subscriptions, long a bugbear of customers.
The US ban on Huawei Technologies was supposed to hand leadership of the lucrative market for wireless base stations to Ericsson and Nokia. It’s not working out that way.
Elon Musk and his team are preparing to outline new steps in Tesla’s drive to become a more self-sufficient company less reliant on suppliers at its “Battery Day” event on 22 September. It’s part of a well-established pattern.
