Apple has lost its supply chain mojo. While consumers remember the iPhone for its cool design, closed-wall operating system and hefty price tag, industry insiders in Asia turn to the US giant as an example of incredible
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Telkom has launched its Android set-top box, the LIT TVB-100, offering customers who sign up for certain mobile, fixed-wireless and fixed-line broadband connections free streaming music and video streaming from partner providers. And the TVB-100 – which is strangely devoid of any Telkom branding on either the box or in the software
Cisco has agreed to buy BroadSoft for about US$1.9bn to expand further into software and cloud services. The $55/share cash offer announced Monday is a 28% premium over BroadSoft’s closing price on 29 August, a day before
Finance minister Malusi Gigaba faces a gaping budget hole — and will have to consider cutting spending, raising taxes and selling state assets if he wants to avoid further ratings downgrades. The economy he oversees is hampered by
Bitcoin soared to another milestone on Friday, as the digital currency breached US$6 000 for the first time to put its gain in 2017 to more than 500%. As bitcoin continues climbing, Twitter users are speculating that the rise could be driven
Although the South African Social Security Agency has given the Post Office an offer to distribute social grants, a scathing report by a panel of experts and the auditor-general has warned that incumbent Cash Paymaster Services
In this special edition of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod sits down with Dracore Data Sciences CEO Chantelle Fraser to talk about the massive data leak exposed this week involving more
What a week! In this episode of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg wrap up the big news around the “master deeds” data leak – how it happened and what it means. Also this week
On Thursday morning, the Financial Times reported that the FBI had “opened an investigation into US links to South Africa’s Gupta family”. The FT noted that the “US probe has focused, in part, on Ashish