Is it time to give up on social media? Many people are thinking about that in the wake of revelations regarding Cambridge Analytica’s questionable use of personal data from over 50m Facebook users to support
Sentech has appointed a long-serving company engineer as its new chief operating officer. The company said on Friday that it has named Tebogo Leshope to take the operational reins at the state-owned
Tencent Holdings has lost US$48bn (R566bn) of market value over two days, pummelled by a warning on margin pressure as well as a surprise sale of stock by its biggest shareholder. Asia’s largest company slumped
If a green ride-sharing service were to flourish anywhere it would be in Munich, where you can rent no-emission cars on just about any city-centre street. And yet Linde is about to shut its two-year experiment with hydrogen
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Naspers is cashing in a sliver of one of the greatest venture capital investments ever. The Cape Town-based company is selling R126bn of shares in Tencent Holdings, equal to 2% of the stock in the Chinese operator
MTN has significantly increased the per-minute charges on certain “legacy” prepaid calling plans, though the company said the increases will only affect a subset of prepaid users and are in no way related to the VAT
TechCentral has agreed to publish the following right of reply from communications regulator Icasa to an opinion piece we ran earlier this week penned by former Icasa councillor Willie Currie and freelance writer
New research from GfK shows South African consumers continue to clamour for smartphones, with entry-level model driving demand, but PC sales continue to flounder.
Smartphone unit sales in South Africa climbed by
Uber Technologies has denied a Kenyan newspaper report that it plans to introduce unmanned flying taxis in the East African nation. Business Daily, a Nairobi-based publication, reported Wednesday that the