The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
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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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Wiocc Group has appointed Ayotunde Coker as CEO of its data centre business, Open Access Data Centres, with immediate effect.
Google’s high-capacity Equiano subsea cable has come ashore at Swakopmund in Namibia en route to its end point at Melkbosstrand, north of Cape Town.
South Africa’s worst-ever bout of load shedding will drag into the new work week, with stage-6 cuts expected again on Monday and stage-5 cuts on Tuesday.
South Africa’s crippling power cuts are approaching an annual record, and there are still six months to go.
The unlawful industrial action at Eskom’s power stations is costing South Africa three stages of load shedding, CEO André de Ruyter said.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter says the power utility will be taking action against workers who embarked on an illegal strike over the past week.
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Spotify Technology said on Tuesday it was rolling out a video feature for its podcasts, letting select creators bring both audio and video content to the music streaming app.
Microsoft president Brad Smith raised concerns to US lawmakers about what the company regards as Apple’s anticompetitive behavior around its app store, according to a person familiar with the matter.
IBM beat estimates for second quarter profit on Monday and signalled that demand in its cloud computing business would get a boost as large corporations accelerate their digital shift due to the coronavirus crisis.
China is said to be considering retaliating against Nokia and Ericsson if the European Union follows the US and Britain in banning Huawei Technologies from 5G networks, according to a report.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement
The broadcasting landscape in Africa is poised for disruptive change, with locally developed television content delivered over mobile phone networks set to change the way people across the continent consume

































