Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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South Africa’s fibre market is entering an “Open Access 2.0” era shaped by scale, behaviour and enforcement.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing their profits stem from his early funding and support.
Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
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US investors with more than $1-trillion of assets under management are in South Africa to look for investment opportunities.
Apple expects to delay its next major iPad software update by about a month, an unusual step by the Californian consumer electronics giant.
Criminals, angry that they aren’t able to steal MTN’s highly secured batteries, have taken to trashing other infrastructure at its base stations.
Eskom will implement stage-4 load shedding on Thursday as it struggles with increased demand due to colder weather and plant breakdowns.
TymeBank on Wednesday announced that it is acquiring Retail Capital, a fintech company that offers finance to SMEs.
Telkom will complete the legal separation of its wholesale division Openserve on 1 September, with the unit becoming a wholly owned subsidiary.
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Facebook said Apple declined its request to waive a 30% commission fee the iPhone maker charges apps listed on iOS devices, taking a shot at its fellow Big Tech peer as developers challenge the policy.
US President Donald Trump now has a verified account on TikTok competitor Triller, another sign of the White House’s disfavour toward the ByteDance-owned video-sharing app.
Internet giant Google on Monday criticised proposed Australian antitrust laws, saying its free search service would be “at risk” and users’ personal data could be shared if it is made to pay news organisations.
Fortnite creator Epic Games found support from its legions of gamers for suing Apple and Google after the tech giants dropped the popular videogame from their app stores for violating payment guidelines.
The investment by UK-based private equity firm Permira into one of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest data centre companies, Teraco Data Environments, is another marker that private equity players in Europe and the US are taking investing in South African and Africa
The man tasked with running South Africa’s digital migration project at the department of communications, Solly Mokoetle, says the Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa has jumped the gun by launching a multibillion-rand tender before a final policy
