The Wi-Fi 8 standard trades the gigabit race for reliability – and Icasa’s new spectrum rules make it matter locally.
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South Africa’s banks have built thriving mobile businesses on phone numbers and network identities they don’t control.
Anthropic has confidentially filed for an IPO, teeing up what could become a watershed moment for in the AI frenzy.
A worsening memory chip shortage, deepened by the Iran war, is driving a record decline in smartphone shipments.
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Goldman Sachs has warned that US software valuations look stretched, like they were in the dot-com era.
The communications department has pushed the long-promised merger of Broadband Infraco and Sentech to 2029.
From US courtrooms to Australian government reports, hallucinated citations are everywhere. Pretoria has now joined the club.
The global media group will become the first French company with a secondary listing on the Johannesburg bourse.
Praekelt-founded platform Turn.io has named Anthropic and ElevenLabs as partners for its 2026 health accelerator.
Smaller operators are struggling to find tenants while hyperscale operators pull further ahead, according to a new study.
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The world should watch out bubbles in financial markets, the head of the World Economic Forum has warned.
Mastercard is in talks to acquire crypto start-up Zerohash for between $1.5-billion and $2-billion, Fortune reported.
Beijing has long been irked by Washington’s export controls that ban Nvidia from selling its most advanced AI chips to China.
Nvidia has agreed to pay $1-billion for a stake of 2.9% in Nokia as part of a deal focused on AI and data centres.
Elon Musk’s dream of transporting humans to Mars will become a bigger national priority under Donald Trump.
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has refused to bail out the Post Office. Now 6 000 jobs are on the line.

































