Elon Musk’s record on disinformation, power and accountability makes licensing Starlink in South Africa unacceptable.
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Starlink dominates South African headlines, but pricing and market realities raise questions about who it’s really for.
The improving currency should help drive down prices for software and hardware, including computers and phones.
Icasa has amended regulations in a move that will materially change how mobile data, voice and SMS bundles work.
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Telkom has again filed papers to try to stop the upcoming spectrum auction, a move that will likely see the company heavily criticised.
Teraco Data Environments has been acquired by Digital Realty in a deal that values the company at an astonishing R55.5-billion.
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.
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After spending August experimenting with a four-day work week in a country notorious for overwork, Microsoft Japan said sales per employee rose 40% compared to the same month last year.
Google has agreed to buy smartwatch maker Fitbit for $2.1-billion in cash, a move that could shore up the Internet giant’s hardware business while also potentially increasing antitrust scrutiny.
HAn open letter has been posted to Huawei’s internal messaging board containing a sharp rebuke of the company’s overtime policy and alleging executives are covering up the full extent of extra work that’s happening.
When Nokia cut its outlook and halted the dividend last week, analysts blamed the company’s under-investment in research and development, among other things. Add internal politics to the list.
Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has slammed a confidential deal struck between the SABC and MultiChoice that prohibits the public broadcaster from offering any of its channels over a television platform that uses encryption technology. E.tv described the move as
South Africa’s online advertising industry can look forward to substantial growth in coming years thanks in part to cheaper smartphones and data. This is according to PwC’s latest annual “South African Entertainment and Media Outlook” report. Unsurprisingly
