Apple already tracks your steps and fitness levels, and now it wants to analyse your sleep. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant has acquired Beddit, a maker of sleep-tracking hardware and software, according to a message on the closely held

Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign to become South Africa’s next president has gone into overdrive. After months of playing coy about his aspirations to become the next leader of the ANC, the deputy president has started

Seacom has completed the repair of its submarine cable system in the Red Sea, a month after it was broken. But the company has now identified a secondary fault, which will require four days of “service-affecting” repair work next week. “The

South Africa has fined 21 companies and plans to penalise more for failing to comply with laws that compel them to employ more black citizens to help reduce inequality more than two decades after the end of white minority

Government is set to back encryption in digital terrestrial television, a sharp reversal of its position on the contentious subject, following the appointment of a new communications minister last month. Last week, political journalist

If he has his way, Paul Allen, the man who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, will cover 233 000km² of African territory with smart sensors and drones by the end of this year to bring hyper-connectivity to Africa’s most remote

Anti-terrorist officials in the US are considering expanding the restrictions on carrying electronic devices in airline cabins beyond the handful of Middle East airports currently covered. Asked if the laptop ban could be expanded to

Net1 subsidiaries Money Line Financial Services and Manje Mobile Electronic Payment Services were granted their rights to enforce deductions on social grants paid to Grindrod bank accounts in the high court in Pretoria on Tuesday. The subsidiaries

The Democratic Alliance welcomes the news that the procurement process for the government-sponsored set-top boxes is being reviewed because of an irregular procurement process and unaffordability of the project. This was confirmed in

Amazon’s voice-activated Echo speakers already tell you things. Now, they can show you stuff, too. On Tuesday, the company unveiled the Echo Show, which features a seven-inch touch screen that can pull