China is shaping how open-source technology is developed, licensed and deployed.
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Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago signals a payments bill that will treat fintechs like banks on like activities.
Shoprite has closed its R&A Cellular deal, taking 51% of the point-of-sale platform serving spaza shops.
Wiocc Group is raising $300-million from AFC and Saudi Arabia’s Vision Invest, its biggest round yet.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing increasing pressure to hand powers to his new electricity minister.
TechCentral lists the best – and most desirable – smartphones that are not officially available in South Africa.
Soon, developers will start to build their products around AI platforms instead of operating systems.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s approval rating plunged more than eight percentage points in the nine months to March, new research shows.
Not enough is being done to support the transition by South Africa’s motor manufacturing industry to electric vehicles.
The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday claimed that the ANC government has effectively blocked Elon Musk from launching Starlink in South Africa.
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China has denounced the US’s latest moves to curb Huawei’s access to commercially available chips, the latest blow in an increasingly tense relationship between the world’s two biggest economies.
Tongwei has halted output at a polysilicon factory in China because of flooding, the latest blow to the solar supply chain that has seen rare cost increases this summer due to disruptions.
Oracle has held preliminary talks with ByteDance on a potential bid for part of TikTok’s business, seeking to rival a competing bid by Microsoft, the Financial Times reported.
Ramped-up US restrictions on Huawei are likely to cut off the Chinese smartphone maker’s access to even off-the-shelf chips and disrupt the global tech supply chain once again, executives and experts cautioned.
Microsoft’s part in a US$70m investment in CyanogenMod has raised many eyebrows: why is Microsoft investing in a popular version of the Android mobile phone operating system when it has its own competing Windows Phone
Things used to be simple: a life with MultiChoice or a life without it. But South African television viewers will soon be spoilt for choice, even if some options are more appealing than others — and some a lot more
