Rain’s newly launched unlimited mobile plans come with a high-spec handset – and plenty of fine print.
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Revolving-door ministers and ad hoc political interventions left the State IT Agency unable to function.
Capitec’s premium valuation rests on three compounding bets. All three are working – but each is now under pressure.
Google’s research suggests quantum computers could break crypto’s encryption sooner than anyone previously expected.
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Production of iPhones could slump by as much as 30% at one of the world’s biggest factories due to tightening Covid-19 curbs.
Eskom will suspend load shedding at midnight on Friday, and will only resume the rotational power cuts again on Monday.
Telkom has appointed Naidene Ford-Hoon, a former chief financial officer of the Reserve Bank, to its board.
About 53GW of new energy generation capacity must be built in the next 10 years to ensure energy security, Eskom said.
Elon Musk became Twitter’s owner on Thursday, in the process firing top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal.
Blue Label Telecoms, the largest shareholder in Cell C, may seek to buy a majority and controlling stake in the mobile operator.
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Walt Disney Co’s top streaming executive, Kevin Mayer, will leave the entertainment and theme parks giant to become the CEO of TikTok, the popular video app owned by China’s ByteDance.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he is worried that China-style regulation of Internet platforms could be replicated in other countries, as leaders across the world consider greater online laws.
Uber Technologies will concentrate on its core businesses in ride-hailing and food delivery after the company announced a second round of job cuts during the coronavirus pandemic.
Huawei Technologies, in its first official response to the Trump administration’s move to curb its access to global chip supplies, called the decision “arbitrary” and said its business would be impacted.
French telecommunications giant Orange plans to launch its own-branded retail stores in South Africa before the end of the year and intends launching an Internet service provider business here, too. Until now, Orange has had a retail presence through Nashua Mobile outlets, but the future of this partnership was thrown into doubt earlier this year when
The Mars One programme is offering civilians, including South Africans, the opportunity to create a human colony on Mars. Is this a revival of the golden age of discovery, when explorers left their homes to begin new civilisations? Or is it a “suicide mission” in which people die in space while we watch from
































