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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African Bank will buy Ubank, potentially adding as many as 4.7 million retail customers and expanding its operations as it seeks to list on the JSE.
JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms on Thursday reported robust full-year results, with a big expansion in gross profit margin.
The Competition Commission wants to punish leading enterprises in the digital space for being successful, the Free Market Foundation said.
Sony is hiking the price of its PlayStation 5 games console in markets including South Africa following economic pressures.
Richemont is finally exiting Yoox Net-a-Porter, but the price of ridding itself of the loss-making online luxury business is a hefty one.
Telkom’s largest shareholder, government, voted against the appointment of a large number of directors to the company’s board at its AGM on Wednesday.
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Apple said on Thursday that it will delay until early next year changes to its privacy policy that could reduce ad sales by Facebook and other companies targeting users on iPhones and iPads.
Thursday’s megacap tech selloff is likely just some froth coming off a hot market rather than a portent of a larger pullback to come.
China is planning a sweeping set of new government policies to develop its domestic semiconductor industry, conferring the same kind of priority on the effort it accorded to building its atomic capability.
India has banned another set of 118 apps from China’s technology giants, including Tencent’s wildly popular game PUBG Mobile Lite and online payments platform Alipay, as tensions escalated between the countries.
In the past three months, I’ve visited three francophone countries — Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Mali — and talked to those involved in the start-up ecosystem in each country. The most developed of
South Africa still hasn’t switched on commercial digital terrestrial television broadcasts, but that isn’t holding back the broadcasting industry from running trials to test digital radio broadcasts based on Digital Audio Broadcasting and Digital Radio Mondiale
