Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
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EXSA, already licensed to trade locally, now wants to move electricity across Southern African borders.
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The US has sued Changpeng Zhao and his Binance cryptocurrency exchange for alleged violations of derivatives regulations.
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Samsung Electronics recently launched its flagship Galaxy S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra smartphones, claiming to offer improved 5G performance compared to their predecessors.
Ghana’s e-levy is designed to raise more tax revenue by extracting larger tax contributions from the informal sector.
China Energy Engineering Group has proposed building a 1GW floating solar farm on Lake Kariba.
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TikTok parent company ByteDance generated more than $17-billion in revenue and more than $3-billion in net profit last year, making it a serious rival to Facebook and Google.
A pair of Donald Trump’s tweets that made unsubstantiated claims about mail-in voting were appended on Tuesday with links pointing readers to news stories fact-checking him.
Amazon.com is in talks to buy driverless vehicle startup Zoox, according to a person familiar with the matter, a deal that would accelerate the e-commerce giant’s automation efforts.
SpaceX is on course to make history on Wednesday as it launches two astronauts into space, the first time a private company has attempted to do so.
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
Communications regulator Icasa looks set to lose four of its councillors in the next few months. William Currie and Joseph Lebooa are set to leave when their contracts come to an end on the 30 September, while William Stucke
