South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.
Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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IT sector salaries are showing signs of a resurgence following a dip in recent years, according to Pnet.
Vumatel has hit one million fibre subscribers, reaching the milestone far faster than Telkom’s ADSL did in South Africa.
The US is using offtake deals and state funding to challenge China’s dominance over African critical mineral supplies.
Vodacom Group-controlled Vodafone Egypt has secured additional mobile spectrum from the Egyptian regulator.
Nersa has granted Eskom steeper tariff hikes over the next two years after admitting errors in earlier calculations.
Prosus plans to sell more than $2-billion in non-strategic and underperforming assets this financial year.
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Apple has managed to dodge its biggest crisis since the pandemic — for the moment, at least.
Apple stepped up production in India in an effort to beat President Donald Trump’s tariffs, sources said.
The Nasdaq Composite index is officially in a bear market thanks to US President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
There’s virtually nowhere to hide for many US technology companies under Donald Trump’s new tariff regime.
