Rain’s newly launched unlimited mobile plans come with a high-spec handset – and plenty of fine print.
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Capitec’s premium valuation rests on three compounding bets. All three are working – but each is now under pressure.
Revolving-door ministers and ad hoc political interventions left the State IT Agency unable to function.
Google’s research suggests quantum computers could break crypto’s encryption sooner than anyone previously expected.
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Three Eskom contractors and an Eskom employee have been arrested for alleged criminal activity at two of the utility’s power stations.
MTN Group has walked away from talks to acquire Telkom, sending the partially state-owned operator’s shares crashing.
Netflix reversed customer losses that had hammered its shares this year and projected more growth ahead, reassuring Wall Street in the process.
South Africa wants to spend billions of dollars fostering an electric vehicle industry, complicating efforts to finalise an $8.5-billion climate aid package.
The solution to environmental damage is to bring a halt to debt-fuelled consumption, not to point a finger of blame at bitcoin, writes Rob Price.
Eskom said it expects to reduce the intensity of load shedding by midnight, after which a mix of stage-2 and stage-3 cuts will be implemented.
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Elon Musk restarted production at Tesla’s only US car plant, flouting county officials who ordered the company to stay closed and openly acknowledging he was risking arrest for himself and his employees.
The Covid-19 pandemic likely barely dented Tencent Holdings’ growth. The bigger long-term threat may be the growing posse of challengers to its Internet leadership.
Regulators are moving to let US companies participate in technology standards-setting bodies alongside Huawei Technologies, despite the Chinese firm being blacklisted in the US over security concerns.
Elon Musk elaborated on his pledge to sell his homes and most of his possessions, telling comedian Joe Rogan that people are increasingly and wrongly taking a dim view on the existence of billionaires.
The magnitude of Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s power was revealed this week when cabinet was apparently told that his permanent appointment as SABC chief operating officer was not up for discussion. The Mail & Guardian was reliably told – by sources in government and the tripartite alliance – that a minister
Zapper, a locally developed smartphone application that facilitates secure smartphone payments, has been launched in South Africa after the company behind it decided to explore international markets first. The app has already been launched in the UK, Australia, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands
