Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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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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Macrocomm has signed an agreement with Germany’s Bosch to build internet of things devices and sensors at Bosch’s manufacturing facility in Brits.
M-Pesa and Visa have launched a virtual payment card in a bid to capture some of Africa’s $40-billion/year subscriptions market.
Government has signed power purchase agreements for 150MW of capacity from private projects by developer Scatec that were selected a year ago.
Computicket, the ticketing agency owned by Shoprite Group, has agreed to pay an R11.3-million “administrative penalty” to South Africa’s competition regulator.
Wiocc, one of the original investors in the Eassy submarine cable system, is gearing up for rapid expansion in data centres across Africa.
Former MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa has been appointed as the “non-life” CEO at insurance group Telesure Investment Holdings.
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Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service rolled out a system across Brazil on Monday that will allow users to send money to individuals or local businesses within a chat, attaching payment as they would a photo or video.
Bitcoin slid below $9 000 on Monday for the first time since May, joining a downdraft in global equities amid growing concern about the risks of a second wave of coronavirus infections.
Facebook fired an employee who had criticised CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump this month.
The Chinese Beidou navigation network will be completed this month when its final satellite goes into orbit, giving China greater independence from US-owned GPS.
South Africa’s digital terrestrial television migration project is in a dire state and if the country fails to switch off its analogue signals after the mid-June 2015 cut-off date, it may be obliged to do so if analogue signals interfere with
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has written off R75m of the licence fees owed to it by the iBurst parent company, Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), which is entertaining a takeover offer to acquire the
