South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
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The National Consumer Tribunal has fined Vodacom R1-million after finding that the operator contravened the law.
EOH CEO Stephen van Coller, who is credited with cleaning up a nest of corruption at the group, will step down in March.
eMedia has withdrawn its case against MultiChoice over the right to broadcast the Rugby World Cup.
Sita has assured government, and the public, that none of its services has been disrupted by the ongoing wage strike.
Parliament has submitted two names to communications minister Mondli Gungubele for a vacancy on Icasa’s council.
Vodacom Group has agreed to a secondary listing on the A2X stock exchange.
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Mercedes-Benz plans to invest more than €40-billion by 2030 to be ready to take on Tesla in an all-electric car market, but warned the shift in technology would lead to job cuts.
Tesla will most likely restart accepting bitcoin as payments once it conducts due diligence on the amount of renewable energy used to mine the currency, CEO Elon Musk said.
Business software maker Salesforce.com has closed its purchase of Slack Technologies, a massive bet that Slack’s workplace app will become popular for collaborations within and between companies.
Some analysts have called Netflix’s move into gaming it a sensible move to keep users’ eyes on screens. But they worry it would take significant time and investment to pay off.
Econet and subsea cable operator Seacom are courting Neotel with the view to a potential acquisition, it was reported on Tuesday. The news comes after Vodacom was forced to walk away from its R7bn plan to buy Neotel
The approach that South African lawmakers take to regulating Internet businesses could make or break the growth of the country’s digital economy, a report from Fifth Era, a Silicon Valley-based
