Legislative changes and lower-cost infrastructure are driving the advance of cryptocurrencies into mainstream payments.
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Electricity market liberalisation, new trading rules and grid reform will define renewable energy progress in 2026.
South Africa’s latest trial of digital sound broadcasting – using DRM technology – is set to be launched next month.
The EU has formally rejected a proposal from operators that Big Tech companies should help pay for infrastructure.
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Eskom will later on Wednesday reduce to stage 3 the current bout of severe load shedding that is crippling South Africa’s economy.
Karpowership is expanding its generation capacity by 50% to tap global demand even as it struggles to get projects going in potentially its biggest market.
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.
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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.
South Africa’s telecommunications industry has “made too much money for too long” and, as competition intensifies and as government and regulatory scrutiny grows, operators are having to become more cost effective and
There’s a revolution under way, and this one’s not being agitated by the working class, although they certainly have their part to play. It is being waged by banks, cellphone providers and entrepreneurs hoping to capitalise on a mobile commercial market that is estimated will be worth more than US$800bn by 2016 and have more than 400m users
