Van Zyl Botha explains how Herotel is bringing Amazon Leo to South Africa ahead of its bigger rival, Starlink.
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Icasa has withdrawn the allegation three days after a councillor raised it in parliament, conceding it had done no investigation.
Why 25 million retail clients and a trusted billing relationship may matter more than owning fibre in the ground.
Bank robberies fell to just two incidents in 2025 while digital banking claims climbed to R2.4-billion.
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Global banks are expected to cut as many as 200 000 jobs in the next three to five years thanks to AI.
Instead of relying on professional fact checkers to moderate content, Meta will adopt a “community notes” model.
Tencent made the move after the tech firm was added to a US blacklist for alleged links to the Chinese military.
Cell C says it has been impacted by a “cybersecurity incident”, and that some customer data has been exposed.
Fibre operator Maziv has hired Phila Dube, the outgoing chief commercial officer at Openserve, into a similar role.
MediaTek will be able to sell the desktop CPU chip it has developed with Nvidia.
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Apostrophy, a software start-up founded by mobile industry veterans, is headed to Davos this week to unveil a smartphone operating system that puts privacy first.
Microsoft will add OpenAI’s viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service “soon”.
Apple rolled out its first new products of 2023 on Tuesday, offering faster versions of its high-end MacBook Pro laptops and the Mac mini desktop.
Ghana has granted Vodafone International Holdings approval to sell its 70% stake in Vodafone Ghana to Telecel Group.
The end of MTN’s free Twitter promotion may have led to a huge reduction in the volume of tweets by the users of that service, but it doesn’t seem to have had a significant effect on the volume of activity on the social network in South Africa.
More than a decade into the era of prevalent social networks and smartphones, people still have no way to make informed choices about how to safely conduct their lives online.

































