The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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IT services firm Gijima has hired IBM’s former Southern Africa head Hamilton Ratshefola as its new group managing executive, replacing Maphum Nxumalo.
Volkswagen South Africa on 3 May built its millionth Polo for export at its Kariega (formerly Uitenhage) plant in the Eastern Cape.
Eskom will implement load shedding from 5pm on Tuesday – and the rolling power cuts will last until next Monday.
The R4.3-billion in pension fund money that the PIC controversially pumped into the Iqbal Survé-linked Ayo Technology Solutions is proving to be a terrible investment.
The price of diesel will jump again this week, adding further impetus to inflation, which is threatening to burst above the Reserve Bank’s 3-6% target range.
Zapper has launch tap-on-phone payments, allowing consumers to pay with a tap of their smartphones, irrespective of whether or not they have the Zapper app.
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Huawei has been barred from fully using Android for at least another 12 months, after Donald Trump extended his executive order banning US firms from working with companies deemed a national security risk.
Electric car maker Tesla plans to introduce a new low-cost, long-life battery in its Model 3 sedan later this year or early next that it expects will bring the cost of electric vehicles in line with petrol models.
Intelsat filed for bankruptcy and said it had obtained $1-billion in new financing that will allow it to keep the satellite service in business while it awaits billions of dollars in proceeds from a spectrum auction.
Google’s takeover of fitness tracker Fitbit could be “a game-changer” for health data that will need close European Union scrutiny, consumer advocates said.
The technology distribution business in South Africa has become “massively overtraded” and competitors are in a “race to the bottom” if they can’t diversify by entering complementary business areas. That’s the view of Miles Crisp, CEO of
The University of the Western Cape has introduced a new model for Village Telco’s Mesh Potato telecommunications device that promises to make the technology sustainable in the long term in rural communities. Village Telco was incorporated by Steve Song in 2011 during a three-year stint
