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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MTN Group’s biggest operation has turned in a particularly strong set of financial results for the year ended 31 December 2021.
Peter Searle, the group CEO of software development house BBD, will step down at the end of February after more than 10 years in the role.
South Africa has extended a deadline for companies to reach financial close for projects aimed at ending load shedding.
Job Crystal, a Cape Town-based technology start-up, has developed software that uses artificial intelligence to match recruiters with job seekers with much greater accuracy.
Vodacom parent Vodafone will work with Intel and other silicon vendors to design its own chip architecture for OpenRAN network technology.
The Post Office has launched an online service for the renewal of motor vehicle licences.
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The US government is weighing new limits on sales of chips and other vital components to China’s Huawei Technologies, sparking another furious round of lobbying by technology companies.
Intel has bought Habana Labs, an Israeli start-up that develops chips for artificial intelligence applications, for about $2-billion to bolster its efforts in the fast-growing market for AI silicon.
China’s ambassador threatened Germany with retaliation if it excludes Huawei Technologies as a supplier of 5G wireless equipment, citing the millions of vehicles German car makers sell in China.
US President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one trade deal with China, averting the 15 December introduction of a new wave of US tariffs on about $160-billion of consumer goods from the Asian nation.
Cabinet’s decision this month to mandate the use of a control system in the set-top boxes government will subsidise for poorer households has led to a great deal of confusion in South Africa’s broadcasting industry. The decision largely went in favour of e.tv, which has
Here they are, TechCentral’s South African Newsmakers of 2013. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year, for good reasons and bad
