Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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South Africa’s fibre market is entering an “Open Access 2.0” era shaped by scale, behaviour and enforcement.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing their profits stem from his early funding and support.
Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
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Traders are adding bets on an outsized interest rate increase in South Africa later this month as the surge in the price of oil fuels inflation expectations.
Massmart has reported full-year results stained in red ink thanks in part to the impairment an SAP ERP system at troubled retailer Game.
Eskom has decided not to replace the steam generators at unit 2 of the Koeberg nuclear power station as planned this year over fears it could contribute to winter power cuts.
Crypto has traditionally been user-agnostic. But there’s a bigger dose of reality here for its utopian narrative of “borderless” and “stateless” money as bombs rain down on Europe’s doorstep.
About 100 000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine are at risk of being destroyed by the end of this month due to slow uptake by citizens.
Starlogik, a telecommunications specialist founded by South African technologists, has secured a top award at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Jeff Bezos is on a shopping spree befitting the world’s richest man. The Amazon.com founder agreed to pay $165-million for a Beverly Hills mansion, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday that the US soon will announce new regulations related to crytocurrency and digital payment systems.
Essential Products, a smartphone start-up founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, has shut down. The company said it “made the difficult decision to cease operations”.
The wireless industry scrapped its biggest annual showcase after the coronavirus outbreak sparked an exodus of participants, roiling telecommunications companies just as they’re preparing to roll out new 5G services.
Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos sat down with TechCentral on Tuesday to explain why the company cut its prepaid price, on a promotional basis until the end of September, to 66c/minute. But he played down suggestions that South Africa’s mobile operators are engaged
The “last mile” fixed-line infrastructure into people homes in South Africa is “awful” and is holding back competition in South Africa’s television broadcasting industry by preventing Internet protocol television and video-on-demand players from launching services
