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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Bheki Nxumalo has been appointed to one of the toughest jobs in South Africa: group executive for generation at Eskom.
TikTok is the first widely used app that the US has proposed banning over privacy and security concerns.
Amazon Web Services will invest up to another R14.8-billion in its cloud infrastructure in South Africa by 2029.
The largest trade union at Eskom wants a 15% wage increase even as the utility fails to generate adequate electricity.
Private investments in energy generation will take two to three years before they solve the load shedding problem, Nedbank CEO Mike Brown said.
Government has pledged legal and diplomatic action to capture the Gupta brothers after a Dubai court rejected a request to extradite the men.
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Huawei Technologies will stop making its flagship Kirin microchips next month, financial magazine Caixin said on Saturday, as the impact of US pressure on the Chinese tech giant grows.
Tencent, one of Asia’s biggest companies, is little known beyond the tech world. But its WeChat super app has more than a billion users worldwide.
Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth passed $100-billion for the first time on Thursday after Facebook hit a record on optimism about the release of its TikTok competitor Reels.
Washington’s plan to ban certain technologies of Chinese origin is a sign of “madness” in US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, China’s state-backed tabloid Global Times wrote in an editorial on Thursday.
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
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
