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Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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Rain has formally made a non-binding proposal to Telkom that would see the latter acquire the former through the issue of new Telkom shares.
SAP has been ordered to pay a further R81.5-million for its complicity in corruption involving the department of water affairs & sanitation.
Cell C, for years saddled with unsustainable debt, is looking to a more hopeful future after reporting a R2-billion net loss for the six months ended 30 June.
Wiocc Group has secured a $30-million equity investment from the International Finance Corporation as it ramps up investment in fibre networks and data centres.
The state-owned utility, which is struggling with broken coal-fired power stations, said it will impose stage-3 power cuts on both Saturday and Sunday.
South Africa has banned Bain & Company from bidding for public-sector contracts for a decade over alleged corrupt and fraudulent practices.
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Huawei Technologies, already getting squeezed out of Europe’s vast market for the next generation of telecommunications equipment, is under siege in another fast-growing business: cloud computing.
Huawei Technologies is in talks with Digital China Group and other suitors to sell parts of its Honor smartphone unit in a deal that could fetch up to $3.7-billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.
China is cementing its status as the world’s dominant trading nation, confounding warnings that a once-in-a-century pandemic combined with simmering tensions with the US would derail that status.
Financial leaders of the world’s seven biggest economies will say on Tuesday that they oppose the launch of Facebook’s planned libra stablecoin until it is properly regulated, their draft statement showed.
Since the last time we were together inside his prison lodgings at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a few things have changed. Julian Assange has grown a beard, looks more pallid and pauses when I ask after his general health. His legal team are
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