Chery has agreed to acquire Nissan’s Pretoria plant, opening the door for Chinese vehicle manufacturing in South Africa.
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Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
Watts & Wheels explores the rapid rise of Chinese brands in South Africa, BMW’s response and the future of local manufacturing.
Telecoms industry lobbyists claim Europe’s latest regulatory moves show the “Fair Share” debate is far from settled.
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Tshwane has begun cutting off electricity and other services to customers whose outstanding debts it said have grown to unsustainable levels.
Even as Telkom heads to court, South Africa’s auction of broadband spectrum will take place next month, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state of the nation address.
The JSE has censured two former directors of Ayo Technology Solutions, publicly berating them and banning them from serving as directors for five years.
The news earlier this week that Apple plans to allow merchants to accept contactless payments directly on iPhones has stirred a great a deal of interest.
MTN South Africa has launched new prepaid plans aimed at informal traders and other small businesses, with prices starting at R49.
Meta Platforms’ revenue is taking a multibillion-dollar hit because it can’t gather as much data on iPhone users. The company spent last year attacking Apple for the change; now it’s publicly calling out Google, too.
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Alphabet shares rose 1.2% in pre-market trading on Thursday, following a flurry of positive analyst commentary on the Google parent’s 2020 prospects.
Fully autonomous cars will not be on public roads for at least 10 years despite claims from some manufacturers they will be available sooner, BlackBerry’s chief executive has said.
A new video streaming service designed only for mobile phones will launch later this year, with shorter programmes and full-screen framing whichever way a user holds their phone.
HP has again rejected an unsolicited takeover offer from Xerox, saying the potential deal “significantly undervalues” the PC maker.
As parliament this week shines a spotlight on the cost of communications in South Africa, it has emerged that Vodacom’s high-end, all-in-one contract packages are significantly more expensive than similar products at other Vodafone-owned operations around the world. An investigation by
StarSat, the pay-television platform previously known as TopTV, will emerge as a “serious competitor” to MultiChoice, the Naspers subsidiary that owns the dominant DStv service. That’s the word from Peter van den Steen, who is overseeing the business rescue of StarSat parent On
