It’s the biggest liability on the South African tech balance sheet – and it keeps compounding.
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Meta’s free cash flow plunged to $784-million from $8.55-billion a year earlier, sending shares tumbling lower.
Gartner’s South African forecast, shared with TechCentral, outpaces the global rate, with data centre spending nearly doubling.
Government will provide guidelines and leave individual sectors to write their own artificial intelligence strategies.
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JSE-listed Datatec expects headline earnings per share to rise more than 50% for the year ended 28 February 2026.
A generation of software engineers who never develop foundational competencies has become a genuine concern.
Adjusted earnings per share more than tripled to R1.80, with consumer and enterprise segments leading growth.
Longer contracts have become South Africa’s answer to unaffordable smartphones – but at a big long-term cost to consumers.
Co-founders Bradley Wattrus and Lungisa Matshoba will return to CFO and chief product and technology roles.
TrendAI’s Zaheer Ebrahim says South Africa’s patching problem is about to be compounded by agentic AI.
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Lip-Bu Tan may be one of the most powerful technology executives you’ve never heard of.
Poland vowed on Tuesday to stick with plans to introduce a new tax on Big Tech, setting up a clash with the US.
Cryptocurrencies have slid further, eclipsing US President Donald Trump’s recent efforts to buttress the industry.
X went down for thousands of users on Monday, with owner Elon Musk blaming a cyberattack.
Google’s legal defeat at the hands of Epic Games threatens to upend how billions of consumers use mobile devices.
The growing fleet of electric vehicles worldwide is already making a surprisingly big dent in demand for oil.

































