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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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Vivica Group, through its Guardian Eye subsidiary, has acquired internet of things specialist Activate Group.
Co-operative governance minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has published draft by-laws for the deployment of networks at municipal level.
Vodacom and MTN have said the severe load shedding that Eskom has subjected South Africa to since last week is having a big impact on their networks.
The severe power cuts afflicting South Africa are set to continue.
South Africa will move ahead with the allocation of three onshore wind stations from a delayed round of bidding to provide renewable power.
Government has held urgent meetings to find ways to ease record rolling power cuts, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his weekly letter to the nation.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX won a $149-million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the US Space Development Agency said on Monday.
Nvidia on Monday laid out a multi-year plan to create a new kind of chip for data centres aimed at siphoning off more functions from its chief rival Intel.
China said at a World Trade Organisation meeting that restrictions by the US on Chinese mobile applications TikTok and WeChat are in violation of the body’s rules, a trade official said.
Just as the Chinese duo of Jack Ma and Pony Ma have carved up major chunks of their country’s Internet businesses, the battle for control of 1.3 billion Indians’ data could become a two-horse race.
Naspers is one of the most closely watched and debated shares on the JSE. Aside from the fact that it is the bourse’s most pricey share, it has been one of its stellar performers – growing by 430% since 2012. In March 2009, Naspers had a market capitalisation
Naspers chairman Koos Bekker said months before Yunus Carrim was fired as communications minister that he would not be reappointed to the job. This startling allegation is contained in a report by the Mail & Guardian on Friday, in which

































