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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South Africa will remain on stage-4 load shedding for now as Eskom works to restore more generating units to the grid.
Google is investing in its first-ever Africa product development centre, in Nairobi, as it positions itself to serve a growing base of Internet users on the continent.
Losing customers for the first time in a decade, Netflix is throwing out all of its old rules.
The rand weakened the most in five months as rolling power cuts, flood damage and signs of a Covid comeback added to worries about the economic outlook.
Stewart van Graan will replace Mteto Nyati as CEO of Altron on 1 July, albeit on an interim basis.
New research shows that MTN has South Africa’s fastest mobile network and that the company is running rings around rival Vodacom when it comes to 5G performance.
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Apple is planning to start selling Mac computers with its own processors by next year, relying on designs that helped popularise the iPhone and iPad, according to people familiar with the matter.
Zoom has been lambasted for its security flaws, but the backlash hasn’t slowed growth. The company reported a 50% surge in use of the online meeting application in the past three weeks.
Two types of cells in the nose have been identified as the likely initial infection points for coronavirus, researchers have said.
Facebook will invest $5.7-billion in the digital assets controlled by India’s richest man, the US social-networking giant’s biggest deal since the 2014 purchase of WhatsApp.
Electric cars are the future of the automobile, Germany’s iconic luxury vehicle brand BMW believes. And it’s about to make a big investment in South Africa to back up this view. Worldwide, the race to electric vehicles is hotting up as leading vehicle manufacturers
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that as we spend more time communicating via social media, we are disappearing into bubbles. We receive information from the same sources and witness the views of the same people in our personalised newsfeeds every day. But it also seems like living in our bubble is having an effect on our own opinions and
