Democrats’ midterm election sweep have sent shares in US tech giants soaring.
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EXSA, already licensed to trade locally, now wants to move electricity across Southern African borders.
Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
MTN won or shared 10 of 16 Opensignal awards to keep its best-network title, though Vodacom leads on 5G speed.
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The Competition Commission has found that Google’s dominance in internet search “distorts platform competition”.
The Competition Commission has ordered Apple and Google to give prominence to local apps in their app stores.
Sentech will at midnight on Monday move TV broadcasters out of the “digital dividend” frequency bands.
Telkom’s Openserve has grown the number of homes passed with its own fibre broadband infrastructure to 1.1 million.
Earnings are still under pressure, but the top line has grown nicely in Telkom’s most recent quarter ended 30 June 2023.
South Africa is planning to scale up its grid capacity as it works to address the crippling power shortages.
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IBM said on Thursday it would spin off the managed infrastructure services unit of its Global Technology Services division into a new public company.
Samsung Electronics reported earnings that beat analyst estimates after the Korean technology giant’s mobile and chip businesses benefited from US restrictions on Huawei Technologies.
A scathing report detailing abuses of market power by four top technology companies suggests a tough road ahead of new rules and stricter enforcement for Big Tech should Joe Biden win the White House.
Tesla’s upcoming quarterly report could put another US$3-billion in CEO Elon Musk’s pocket. That’s R50-billion at the time of writing.
There are some specific words that are not particularly popular with the European Commission: “hi-tech”, “anticompetitive” and “bundling”, to name a few. Throw “US firms” into the mix, and the
Digital music downloads and online streaming sales have now overtaken sales of CDs and records for the first time, underscoring just how fundamentally the internet has changed the way we consume
