African funds raised $4-billion in 2024 — double the value from a year earlier — to invest in start-ups and infrastructure projects.
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Tokenised bank cards are expected to take over, but several factors may keep physical plastic alive for a while yet.
The publication, which continues to achieve record readership numbers, is being acquired by Publishared.
Lesotho earlier this week granted a 10-year licence to Starlink, a subsidiary of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Residents across a portion of Cape Town will on Tuesday be interrupted by a “full-volume siren test” at Koeberg.
Bitcoin was trading up more than 20% from last week’s lows on Monday.
Honor aims to expand from being primarily a smartphone company and develop PCs, tablets and wearables.
A unit at Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear power plant was shut down after experiencing an unplanned, non-technical trip.
Skype will ring for the last time this May as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service.
Durban-based iGaming software developer Derivco has a new leader following the departure of CEO Quraish Behari.
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North Korea has unveiled new suicide attack drones, with leader Kim Jong Un talking of using AI in its weapons programme.
Microsoft will hold a summit in September after a faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a global IT outage.
SpaceX’s attempt at the first-ever private spacewalk next week will be a test of trailblazing equipment.
Apple is planning to hold its biggest product launch event of the year in three weeks – here’s what to expect.
Industry body Ispa has moved to reassure internet users that their members don’t routinely monitor their clients’ online behaviour.
Some African governments are spending vast sums on mass surveillance of their own citizens.