Apple led the market with a 20% share, the largest among the top five brands, according to Counterpoint Research.
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Starlink’s proposed entry into South Africa is facing mounting political backlash, driven by concerns over owner Elon Musk’s conduct and public statements.
Many of South Africa’s listed tech companies performed well in 2025, with some growing their share prices by over 70%.
Attackers are bypassing the very tools for e-mails designed to prevent them from gaining access to businesses.
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A group of out-of-pocket bitcoin investors is pushing for criminal charges against the South African brothers who ran a suspected fraudulent cryptocurrency platform.
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.
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Taiwan has suspended sales of three Huawei smartphone models that identify Taiwan as part of China, striking a fresh blow in a long-running conflict over references to sovereignty.
Apple is considering bundling its paid Internet services, including News+, Apple TV+ and Apple Music, as soon as 2020, in a bid to gain more subscribers.
Facebook has been accused of using “selective big numbers” to promote its latest transparency report after it published figures on the amount of harmful content it had taken down in recent months.
China invited observers to a successful test of its Mars lander as the country pushes for inclusion in more global space projects.
The fall-out from the business failure of MultiChoice rival On Digital Media, the owner of TopTV, continues unabated with news that the Industrial Development Corp has taken three of the pay-TV operator’s major shareholders to court seeking to recover more than R750m
Nokia, soon to be part of Microsoft, is continuing its efforts to regain lost relevance — and market share — in the mobile phone market with a new high-end smartphone and its first foray into tablet computing. The tablet, a 10,1-inch Lumia 2520 with full high-definition
