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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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I have a confession to make: I haven’t been doing my job since the beginning of the year, but I’m still getting paid for it. By Jason Norwood-Young.
The website address google.co.za, which many South Africans use to access the Google search engine, was unavailable on Friday.
A US regulator has filed civil charges against a South African man and his company for operating a fraudulent commodity pool worth over R28-billion in bitcoin.
The board of JSE-listed technology group Mustek has appointed Hein Engelbrecht as its new CEO with immediate effect.
Shares in Alviva Holdings leapt higher on Thursday after the group received an offer from a black-led consortium to buy it out.
JSE-listed Datatec has agreed to sell its Analysys Mason business for as much as £210-million, with the proceeds to flow directly to the group’s shareholders.
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Data suggests we’ve experienced more of a June Jump than a sustained recovery. Further, it appears limited to only a slice of the hardware sector – chips and PC products.
Twitter said several of its employees were manipulated by hackers into providing credentials for internal systems, and 130 Twitter accounts were targeted including those of Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Twitter disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyberattack this week, an incident in which profiles of many prominent people were compromised.
Netflix on Thursday elevated its content chief Ted Sarandos to co-CEO, making the 20-year veteran of the pioneering streaming video service a clear successor to co-founder Reed Hastings.
Keystone Electronic Solutions, a contract design engineering firm based in Pretoria, is hiring. The only problem is, it can’t fill the vacancies it has for engineering graduates because, according to co-founders John Eigelaar and Ivan Popov, the people coming out of
Africa’s network operators need to make a New Year’s resolution that they will work to make their data cheaper for their users and improve the quality of their networks. Data creates significant revenue challenges for Africa’s mobile operators, and they must be prepared
































