South Africa will extend more support to beleaguered state-owned power utility Eskom and is considering selling assets as part of a 14-point plan to revive an economy that’s in its second recession in almost a decade. The country will

While people talk about a bubble in funding for private start-ups, one might want to take a look at the surge in funding for cryptocurrencies first. According to William Mougayar, a Toronto-based venture adviser

We’re not doing the usual interview format in this episode of the TechCentral podcast, but rather bringing you a very important teleconference press call with SAP executive board member Adaire Fox-Martin, who will be jetting into South Africa on

Later this year, Apple will put augmented reality software in as many as a billion mobile devices. Google beat Apple by three years in releasing AR tools, but its features are on very few phones and haven’t gained

Uber Technologies is handing over the keys to its business in Russia. The San Francisco-based company and Yandex  are merging their ride-hailing businesses in Russia. Uber will invest US$225m and take a 36.6% stake in a new

The Square Kilometre Array has reached another milestone, with a significant development that cements the way towards the second phase construction of the giant telescope. The Ghanaian and South African governments on Thursday

The 2017 boom in cryptocurrency prices has focused attention once again on valuations. Most of the analysis is either too optimistic or too pessimistic. The former tries to put a hard value for profitable buying and selling decisions

Worldwide PC shipments fell by 4.3% in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the same period a year ago, marking the 11th straight quarter of declining shipments, according to analyst firm Gartner. Just over 61m PCs

South Africa has been placed alongside countries such as Peru and Pakistan on a “watch out” list of nations that are failing to rise to their digital potential. More than 170 indicators, including mobile

German software giant SAP has placed its South African management team on “administrative leave” and promised a wide-ranging probe, to be led by a law firm, into allegations of bribery and corruption