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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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Woolworths plans to ramp up its online, on-demand delivery service, its CEO said on Wednesday, as it steps up a turf war with Pick n Pay and Shoprite.
MTN Group has appointed Christian Bombrun as CEO: Digital Platforms, replacing Minnie Harris, who has been acting in the position since April.
Investment holding company Huge Group plans to make a “significant” investment in Interfile Group, a specialist software company.
A sharp drop in electricity demand as Covid-19 engulfed South Africa more than two years ago prevented unplanned breakdowns at Eskom from snowballing.
A regulatory agency in Zimbabwe is holding up the sale by Altron of its Altron Document Solutions subsidiary to Xerotech.
Amazon Web Services and Google have criticised Microsoft’s cloud computing changes, saying they limit competition.
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Huawei is expected to respond on Thursday to the latest salvo of US technology restrictions against it and share its progress on developing a system that is seen as its best bet to replace Android.
Tesla shed about $80-billion of its market value on Tuesday, an amount that overshadows the combined value of General Motors and Ford, after its surprise exclusion from the S&P 500 Index.
Volkswagen’s new electric car panned by Germany’s leading test publication. Auto Motor und Sport said the ID.3 fell short of the car maker’s usual standards of fit and finish, and had a limited operating range,
Tesla shares slumped in US pre-market trading on Tuesday after the electric vehicle maker missed out on being included in the S&P 500 Index, taking investors who had bet on its entry to the benchmark by surprise.
There are thousands of satellites in Earth orbit, of varying age and usefulness. At some point they all reach the end of their lives and become floating junk. What do we do with them then? Most satellites are not designed
Telkom’s plans to cut wholesale service prices from 1 May should lead to big savings for consumers on their broadband bills, Internet Solutions MD Saki Missaikos predicts. However, it’s still too early to

































