Catching even a fraction of the upside will be a deliberate act of statecraft, not a stroke of luck.
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Operators say the rapid deployment rules, now in draft form, ignore the municipal wayleave bottleneck.
South Africa’s quantum industry is still in its infancy – but it’s no longer purely academic in nature.
Rockstar’s behemoth will smash sales records, but commercial success has never guaranteed creative revolution.
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Michael Jordaan, investor in wireless broadband upstart Rain, said on Tuesday that consolidation in South Africa’s telecoms market is inevitable.
Apple’s long-anticipated mixed-reality headset is an ambitious attempt to create a 3D version of the iPhone’s operating system.
African start-ups more than doubled the amount of debt they raised last year, a surge that may continue as equity funding becomes more expensive.
Petrochemicals giant Sasol has signed three wind-power purchase deals as it shifts towards renewable energy to meet its carbon emissions targets.
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Eskom is again looking for a chief executive. But running the utility surely ranks as the worst job in the global energy industry.
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With the consumer economy in tatters and gadget sales plummeting, Samsung’s smartphone division threatened to undermine the strength it found in shipping memory chips used in servers
Google and Facebook took particularly sharp jabs for alleged abuse of their market power from politicians on Wednesday in a much-anticipated hearing that put four of the US’s most prominent tech CEOs in the hot seat.
Huawei Technologies overtook Samsung Electronics in global smartphone shipments in the second quarter after Chinese consumer spending bounced back from a Covid-19 trough, according to Canalys.
At Wednesday’s antitrust hearing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to tell the US congress his company is an American success story crucial in winning an Internet arms race against China. TikTok’s CEO is already striking back.
There are many factors that have allowed for the successful scaling of the Internet into a global phenomenon. A consensus-based, voluntary approach to standards, decentralised design and a vast body of openly-licensed software have all contributed. But the element I want to talk about here
The Film and Publications Board plans to extend its regulatory reach to the digital space and, in a draft policy document, proposes that all online content distributed in South Africa must be classified by March 2016. But it won’t be
