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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Norway and the UK will spend R600-million developing renewable energy projects in South Africa.
Microsoft plans to help accelerate the growth of 10 000 start-ups in Africa over the next five years through various financing and support mechanisms.
Taiwan saw regional blackouts across the island on Thursday in the latest sign its electrical grid is struggling to meet rising demands from technology manufacturers.
The Economic Freedom Fighters has slammed MultiChoice over what it has inaccurately claimed is the broadcaster’s “unilateral decision” to remove Russia’s RT from DStv.
RT, the Russian state-owned news channel formerly known as Russia Today, is no longer available on DStv, just one day after MultiChoice said it had no intention of canning it.
MTN Group’s share price topped R200/share on Wednesday, the first time the JSE-listed telecoms giant has touched these levels in nearly seven years.
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Intel has become the latest high-profile technology company to withdraw from upcoming trade show Mobile World Congress over concerns about the spread of coronavirus.
In the lumbering takeover battle for HP, Xerox had been wielding plenty of stick, so it was about time for some carrot. What came was more of a crudite, but it might just be the appetiser that HP needs.
Amazon.com wants to depose US President Donald Trump over the technology company’s losing bid for a US$10-billion military contract. The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October.
Chinese gadget manufacturer TCL Communication has become the latest company to scale back its presence at upcoming tech show Mobile World Congress over concerns about coronavirus.
Apple could be about to splash as much as US$3,2bn on Beats Electronics, the maker of a range of popular headphones. According to a report in the Financial Times, a deal could be announced as early as next week. But it may be less the headphones than Beats’s new music streaming service that has attracted the interest of Apple
State, a fast-growing international social communications network built around user sentiment and personal opinion, has been launched in South Africa. The London-based State was founded by British-Lebanese entrepreneurs and brothers Alexander and Mark Asseily. They want to change the way we look at social networks by

































