Netflix has taken a small but significant step with the launch of its first-ever daily highlights show for the Afcon football.
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Naspers and Prosus chairman Koos Bekker has sold shares in both companies worth about R2.5-billion over three trading days.
The Competition Tribunal has approved the sale of Herotel to Vumatel, but subject to an extensive set of conditions.
The Competition Commission has approved a deal that will see Open Access Data Centres expand its local footprint.
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MTN Group had a barnstorming 2021. The telecommunications group, despite its size, was the best performer among technology shares in South Africa last year.
Big Tech powered US stocks to a third straight winning year in 2021, as giants such as Apple and Microsoft continued to see strong demand.
Huawei has pledged to step up investment in software and digital power technology, seeking to overcome US sanctions that dragged sales to a fifth straight slump.
South Africa has eased restrictions meant to stop the spread of coronavirus even as the percentage of people testing positive for the disease exceeded 20% for the 19th straight day.
Elliot (“Ellie”) Salkow, the founder of Ellies Electronics, is one of the most prominent industry leaders we lost this year.
Unit 4 at the Kusile power station has been synchronised to the national grid for the first time, which should help to alleviate pressure on the system into 2022.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to the stage late on Thursday to reprise a familiar role: pitching a future vehicle to a throng of adoring fans. This time, it’s the “Cybertruck” – his name for Tesla’s new electric pickup truck.
Microsoft got a licence to do business with Huawei, a step that lets the software giant continue selling some of its most important products to a Chinese company that was blacklisted by the US government.
US President Donald Trump, touring an Apple assembly plant in Texas, said he’s “looking at” exempting the iPhone maker from tariffs on goods imported from China.
Huawei has urged the US government to end its “unjust treatment” of the Chinese technology giant after it was granted an extension to a temporary trade licence in the country.
The stage is set for a final showdown in the protracted war between broadcasters and set-top box manufacturers over the use of encryption based on conditional access (CA) in the set-top boxes that South African consumers will need to buy to continue receiving terrestrial television
Mobile penetration as measured by the number of active Sims in use in sub-Saharan Africa has reached 61% of the population. But this masks the reality that fewer than one in three people in the region actually owns a mobile phone. According to a new research report from


































