Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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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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Flutterwave is preparing for an initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange even as it deals with regulatory hurdles in its key markets.
Vodacom Group is now offering cash advances to its underbanked client base in South Africa as it pushes deeper into financial services.
Africa’s fintech company revenue may soar to eight times higher than in 2020 as a growing, young and underbanked population gets more access to the Internet.
A University of the Western Cape computer science student has shown that Twitter can be used to pinpoint hijacking hotspots in South Africa.
Who can save bitcoin? The world’s biggest cryptocurrency can’t seem to catch a break.
South African banks see physical money remaining key to their business as almost a third of their customers aren’t ready to go cashless, according to a survey.
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China has announced an initiative to establish global standards on data security, saying it wants to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when “individual countries” are “bullying” others.
General Motors took a US$2-billion equity stake in Nikola and partnered with the truck maker to engineer and manufacture its Badger bakkie, sending its shares soaring in early trading.
Thousands of passenger planes are still grounded, but in-flight Internet is surging to new highs.
With its $6.6-billion contract win with Verizon Communications, Samsung Electronics has reinforced its position as a challenger to the dominance of Nokia and its Nordic rival, Ericsson
If you think Eskom’s load shedding causes disruptions, there’s potentially an even bigger problem for the economy waiting in the wings – a technology outage caused by a cyber attack. The very functioning
As famously contrarian investors, the one stock Allan Gray might be thought least likely to hold is Naspers. Besides being the flavour of the market, the counter is trading on multiples that most value
