Satellite broadband promises to weaken authoritarian regimes’ ability to shut down the internet and silence dissent.
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Educated youth in high-income nations face growing automation risks as AI disrupts skilled entry-level roles.
Data centre operator Teraco has expanded its executive management team following a period of rapid growth.
The move comes amid a feud between Sentech and the SABC over the former’s fees for signal distribution.
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The department of trade, industry & competition is preparing a notice that will ban the importation of analogue television sets.
Absa Bank has joined the Hyperledger Foundation, an open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies.
The European Union revealed its most detailed plans yet for a low-earth orbit satellite system worth billions of euros.
BCX has extended its network into Teraco’s Johannesburg and Cape Town data centres, the Telkom-owned ICT services company said on Wednesday.
New research by OfferZen has thrown up some surprising results about which are the best cities for software developers to work in to earn the most money.
Discovery has announced plans to establish a new, health-focused insurance technology business called Amplify Health in partnership with AIA Group.
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Uber Technologies will sell Uber Eats in India to local rival Zomato in a $172-million deal, underscoring the ride-hailing giant’s effort to cut back on loss-making operations.
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou shouldn’t be dispatched to the US because her alleged crimes don’t meet Canada’s legal tests for extradition, her defence lawyers said at the opening of hearings.
The European Union won’t explicitly ban Huawei Technologies or other 5G equipment vendors when the bloc unveils guidelines for member states to mitigate security risks.
Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency starts 2020 looking no closer to release, with authorities in its base in Switzerland raising fresh questions about its suitability as a global currency.
The controversial issue of “network neutrality” looks set to become the subject of intense debate in South Africa in coming months after communications regulator Icasa this week raised the idea of introducing regulations that could stop operators from discriminating against traffic carried across their networks
South Africa’s highly concentrated television broadcasting industry, which has one dominant subscription operator in MultiChoice, will be a key focus area of Icasa’s high-level inquiry into the state of competition in the information and communications technology sector
