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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The ethereum blockchain’s next big software upgrade is poised to happen on Wednesday.
Machine learning is helping astronomers work through vasts quantities of data quickly and more accurately than poring over it manually.
Chinese state-owned telecommunications firms are developing a $500-million undersea fibre-optic Internet cable network to rival a similar US-backed project.
MTN South Africa has launched uncapped wireless Internet plans aimed at home users – and they’re priced competitively next to uncapped fibre solutions.
Spain is providing €2.1-billion in funding to help fund South Africa’s energy transition and water needs.
Mobile operators including Vodacom, MTN and Telkom, are scrambling to ensure their networks stay up and running.
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President Donald Trump’s unprecedented demand that the US get a cut of the proceeds from the forced sale of TikTok is based on an interpretation of law that may be open to challenges.
A US investigation into ByteDance’s TikTok is really intended to smother a Chinese-owned app that’s become a sensation with Americans, founder Zhang Yiming told employees in China.
China will not accept the “theft” of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to Washington’s move to push ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations, the China Daily newspaper said.
The goal of blockchain start-ups to build a decentralised Internet always depended on wresting data storage away from giants like Amazon and Google. That missing piece of the puzzle may be solved.
Looking back, 2014 was not a good year for keeping things safe under digital lock and key. If a score was being kept, it might seem that the cybercriminals are in the lead, despite the valiant efforts — and own goals — from the cybersecurity profession worldwide. Cast your mind back
In South Africa, as in many countries, the release of senior secondary school exam results, referred to locally as “the matric”, causes a media furore every year. At 18 years old, students either pass or fail and their results are published in
