Vodacom wants Icasa to assign the defunct Woan spectrum to operators for satellite-to-phone services.
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South Africa’s redrafted AI policy goes to cabinet by March 2027, months later than first promised.
Finland has offered to help South African researchers reach Lumi, one of Europe’s fastest supercomputers.
GoTyme Bank says its customers now originate about a quarter of PayShap payments to cellphone numbers.
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The Reserve Bank has released a position paper outlining how it intends modernising the payments ecosystem.
The SABC has proposed applying to national treasury for a VAT exemption on TV licence fees – money it hopes to keep.
The biggest seller of mobile phones in Africa is weighing a listing in Hong Kong that could raise up to $1-billion.
South Africa’s oldest telecommunications operator, Telkom, has a new brand identity, including a new logo.
JSE-listed WeBuyCars has built two AI tools it said it believes will form a “cornerstone of its future growth”.
Nvidia is caught in the crosshairs of a US-China trade war as both countries battle for global dominance in AI.
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Microsoft has won a court’s okay to move forward with its $69-billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard.
More than a quarter of jobs in the OECD rely on skills that could be easily automated by artificial intelligence.
Threads, could generate some serious cash for Meta Platforms in the next couple of years, according to Evercore ISI.
Apple has opened a store on WeChat, marking an expansion of the US firm’s retail channels in China.
When Naspers lists in Amsterdam, it will bring with it a dual shareholding structure to match or even exceed the worst practices of tech behemoths such as Facebook or Google parent Alphabet.
Each deal Google does is a reminder of its failures so far in the lucrative field of cloud computing and a potential warning sign to the software specialists that have thrived in the last decade.
