Standard Bank has become the first African-based lender authorised to clear renminbi transactions on the continent.
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One of South Africa’s leading computer scientists weighs on the significance of the first sub-1nm chip.
South African operators have agreed interim measures to curb Sim fraud while pressing government for Rica reforms.
A network built to be the cheapest is now keen to show it can be among the fastest.
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Government is still assessing the effect of adding interest to a R254-billion debt relief package for Eskom.
Banking app kidnappings, with the aim of gaining unauthorised access to victims’ money under duress, are on the rise.
Voice revenues generated by South Africa’s mobile operators are still sliding, new figures from MTN suggest.
MTN South Africa’s margins remain under pressure as the company invests in making its network resilient against load shedding.
MTN Group hopes to exit Afghanistan soon, with Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry and Liberia likely next to be sold.
Melon Mobile has become the latest South African telecoms provider to make voice calls effectively free of charge.
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A few nights ago, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun announced on Twitter that he had paid half-a-million dollars for a picture of a rock with laser eyes. It wasn’t even a good picture of a rock.
Samsung Group will invest ₩240-trillion (R3.1-trillion) in the next three years to expand its footprint in biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics.
DiDi Global has suspended plans to expand in Europe partly because of concerns over how the Chinese ride-hailing company handles passenger data, according to a person familiar with the matter.
It sounds implausible: a technology that could unleash nearly unlimited clean energy. Yet sustainable nuclear fusion, long hypothesised, took a step closer to reality this month.
Encrypted digital television set-top boxes risk being expensive for government and burdening poorer South Africans with defunct technology, says pay-TV provider MultiChoice. Set-top boxes are key to South Africa’s
The department of communications is confident of winning its constitutional court appeal against encryption of set-top boxes. The supreme court of appeal ruled recently that the decision by communications minister
