Safety researchers warn touchscreen-heavy dashboards increase distraction, reaction times and crash risk for drivers globally.
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Buy now, pay later gives customers flexibility, but light regulatory oversight may ensure safe, responsible financial access.
Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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Seriti Resources has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Windlab Africa’s wind and solar energy assets in an R892-million deal.
China’s Internet giants have shared details of their prized algorithms with Beijing for the first time, an unprecedented move.
The simple unbundling of South Africa’s power sector alluded to by the president could herald a new era in South Africa’s energy future.
Government has received an unsolicited bid for its 40.5% stake in Telkom from an investment firm called the Toto Consortium.
There’s been outrage from some quarters about reports that Eskom intends to increase the connection fee for electricity users who also generate their own power.
Telkom said it has not it had received a proposal from Rain and remains in talks with rival MTN about a possible transaction.
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US technology giants are increasingly dominating the stock market in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, even as they draw accusations of unfair business practices. Some investors fear the pump is primed for a tech-fuelled sell-off.
Walmart said it was joining Microsoft in a bid for social media company TikTok’s US assets, revealing its plans hours after CEO Kevin Mayer said he would step down.
For at least two years, I’ve been calling out Xiaomi for pretending be an Internet player when it really just makes smartphones. It took a global pandemic for the Chinese company to finally realise its vision, sort of.
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has left the company, less than three months after he joined the hit short-video app, and US GM Vanessa Pappas will replace him on an interim basis.
Microsoft has announced its intention to hire more autistic people – not as a charitable enterprise but because, as corporate vice-president Mary Ellen Smith says: “People with autism bring strengths that we need at Microsoft.” Employing autistic people makes good business
When the JSE began trading on Monday morning, Naspers opened at R2 001,50/share. This was the counter’s first foray above R2 000, a price that is just below 88% higher than where it opened on 14 April last year. Going back two years, the surge in the share
