Despite cost pressures, South Africa’s cloud market is on track to exceed R100-billion by 2029, according to BMIT.
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The EU is accelerating its Iris2 satellite network to secure sovereign communications and reduce reliance on US systems.
The decision by Leon Schreiber to hike fees for accessing home affairs’ online verification system will be reviewed in court.
South African shoppers can now search Amazon using images, screenshots or barcodes with Amazon Lens.
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The ANC looks set to fall well short of obtaining a parliamentary majority for the first time since it came to power.
South Africans vote in an election on Wednesday that looks set to reshape the political landscape.
Botswana has granted a licence to SpaceX’s Starlink unit. There’s still no word on its licensing in South Africa.
The retail group, which owns PEP and Ackermans, sells seven of every 10 prepaid smartphones in South Africa.
The embattled Post Office has been granted an extension to a monopoly that it appears powerless to enforce.
Online sales at Pick n Pay grew by nearly 75% in the past year – and more than doubled for on-demand sales.
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The global smartphone market had its worst third quarter since 2014 as economic headwinds pushed consumers to delay discretionary purchases.
Uber Technologies is launching a dedicated advertising arm in a push to cash in on a captive audience and tap the higher-margin revenue stream.
BMW’s commitment to prioritising hydrogen has become an increasingly outlier position in the automotive world.
Adobe is tweaking its most famous product to work more like the design tool it committed $20-billion to acquire.
For more than two years, a small and stealthy group of engineers within Google has been working on software that they hope will eventually replace Android, the world’s dominant mobile operating system.
Facebook bestrides the Earth. It attracts nearly 1.5 billion users a day, commands a fifth of global online advertising revenue and has a market capitalisation that exceeds the GDP of many countries. But breaking it up is the wrong approach.
