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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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The National Planning Commission has called for emergency measures to deal with the energy supply crisis facing South Africa.
India has valuable lessons that it can impart if South Africa wants to build a fast-growing IT services industry, says Zensar Technologies.
TechCentral spoke to newly appointed Dimension Data CEO Alan Turnley-Jones about the company’s future in his first media interview since taking the role.
Zapper is considering options to raise capital, including a stake sale, that could value the start-up at nearly $1-billion, sources said.
Eskom will implement stage-5 load shedding on both Wednesday and Thursday this week as it struggles to recover from a crippling illegal strike.
Lenders to the troubled mobile operator have approved a “compromise offer” that will place the company into a more sustainable debt position.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk urged miners to produce more nickel, a key ingredient in the batteries that power the company’s electric cars, warning the current cost of batteries remained a big hurdle to the company’s growth.
ARM, the semiconductor designer owned by SoftBank Group, is attracting takeover interest from graphics chip maker Nvidia, people with knowledge of the matter said.
China embarked on its most ambitious space mission yet, launching a probe to Mars on Thursday that ramps up the nation’s challenge to Nasa’s dominance in space.
Workspace messaging app developer Slack Technologies on Wednesday asked European antitrust regulators to investigate Microsoft for allegedly abusing its market dominance.
Microsoft, once the dominant force in the software industry, has for a few years been on the back foot. Despite its undeniable clout and the world’s largest installed base of users, it has been slow to move
Google’s announcement that it will not provide security updates for older versions of its Android mobile operating system means that more than a billion users face growing security risks to their phones or tablets

































