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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Icasa’s decision to make available an additional 500MHz for Wi-Fi applications has essentially tripled the spectrum available.
“Anonymous Sudan” says it’s waging cyber strikes out of Africa on behalf of oppressed Muslims worldwide. Experts disagree.
The Reserve Bank will keep monetary policy tight for longer to tame persistent inflation, governor Lesetja Kganyago said.
The removal of the cross-holding structure will let Naspers continue its share buyback programme.
Inflation and rising interest rates in South Africa are two factors that Naspers has pointed to for a loss at Takealot.
Naspers on Tuesday reported a 78% slump in annual profit, led by a drop in the contribution from Tencent.
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Dogecoin, the tongue-in-cheek cryptocurrency featuring a Shiba Inu dog as a mascot, briefly touched a record on Monday after billionaire Elon Musk, rapper Snoop Dogg and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons tweeted about it.
The US app Clubhouse erupted among Chinese social media users over the weekend, with thousands joining discussions on contentious subjects such as Taiwan and Xinjiang undisturbed by Beijing’s censors.
South Korea’s Hyundai said on Monday it is now not in talks with Apple on autonomous electric cars, just a month after it confirmed early-stage talks with the tech giant, sending the automaker’s shares skidding.
German prosecutors have confiscated more than €50-million worth of bitcoin from a fraudster. There’s only one problem: They can’t unlock the money because he won’t give them the password.
Alan Knott-Craig is nothing if not ambitious. The man behind the Project Isizwe free Wi-Fi project in Pretoria and the former boss of both Mxit and iBurst wants to build what he calls “the Capitec of of telecoms
South Africa has a dire shortage of skills, especially software developers. Now a new, not-for-profit initiative, led by entrepreneurs, is hoping to make a meaningful impact on developing the
