Apple is also reportedly developing an AI-powered wearable pin that is equipped with multiple cameras.
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South Africa is endowed with minerals needed by the tech industry, but they are not being exploited to their full potential.
As storage prices fall, South Africa’s renewables are pivoting from variable output to dependable, dispatchable power.
Global demand for smartphones, PCs and gaming consoles is expected to shrink this year amid surging RAM prices.
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Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has threatened to withdraw financial assistance to the SABC after she took umbrage at its criticism of her decision to switch off analogue television broadcasts on 31 March.
Telkom has decided it will press ahead with its legal action against the spectrum auction, despite the risk it could lose access to the frequencies it recently secured.
Despite intense pressure from broadcasters, communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni appears adamant that analogue TV will be switched off this week.
A group of young entrepreneurs are looking to reinvent Zambia as an African technology hub – with support from ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin.
Meta Platforms-owned messaging app WhatsApp is has begun testing the ability for users to share media files up to 2GB in size.
A whistle-blower has alleged that the US software giant is routinely involved in bribery and other malfeasance across the region.
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SoftBank Group told shareholders of WeWork that it could withdraw from an agreement to buy $3-billion of stock in the co-working business, casting doubt on a deal that had been set to close in about two weeks.
For years, television executives have fretted there is too much TV. Now, with the coronavirus looming large, they are worried there might not be enough.
Amazon.com will hire 100 000 people – and give US workers a $2/hour raise in an effort to meet crushing demand from customers placing online orders for household essentials.
Naspers affiliate Tencent picked up millions of new gamers during the global coronavirus outbreak. That helped the company gain $25-billion of market value up to 5 March, before a global market rout torpedoed the stock.
MultiChoice is aggressively expanding its digital terrestrial television (DTT) footprint across sub-Saharan Africa. This is contributing to rapid growth in the number of pay-TV subscribers on its books outside its home market of South Africa. For the year ended 31 March 2014, the Naspers-owned company added
Last week, Internet service provider Afrihost made headlines for launching a R1 999 smartphone that comes bundled with 1GB/month of data for 12 months. Turns out there’s a South African company behind the smartphone, called the Zest T1. Zest Mobile, a start-up founded just a year ago, is catering


































