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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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The justice ministry said it has been informed by authorities in Dubai that two of the three Gupta brothers have been arrested.
Debris believed to be from a Russian rocket used to resupply the International Space Station created a fiery display in the night sky over Johannesburg on Sunday evening.
Nedbank’s “super app” Avo will now sell Apple products after the bank was appointed as an Apple authorised reseller for the South African market.
The heady, decades-long era of rapid sales gains, boundless jobs growth and ever-soaring share prices is coming to an end.
Analysts and developers will be scouring between the lines for any hints about how a future mixed-reality headset might work.
Standard Bank’s head of IT engineering has “resigned with immediate effect” following a series of IT outages that have embarrassed the financial services giant.
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A new rule allows US companies to work with China’s Huawei to develop standards for 5G and other cutting-edge technologies.
One week before Apple’s annual developer conference, the financial heart of its App Store is under renewed attack from antitrust regulators and exasperated developers.
Qualcomm on Tuesday said it is putting 5G technology into chips for smartphones that will sell for as little as R5 000 and that will come to market in the second half of this year.
Apple on Tuesday found itself the target of two EU antitrust investigations into its App Store and Apple Pay as regulators said its terms and conditions and restrictions may violate the bloc’s competition rules.
Technology start-ups and the entrepreneurs who lead them should tackle the “many great opportunities” in South Africa and Africa more broadly rather than trying to emulate his decision to move to the US, says Gyft founder Vinny Lingham. Lingham, now one of the “dragons” in the South African
The aircraft industry is expecting a seven-fold increase in air traffic by 2050, and a four-fold increase in greenhouse gas emissions unless fundamental changes are made. But just how “fundamental” will those changes need to be

































