America’s technology giants will not face heavy-handed regulations in Europe’s digital rule overhaul, sources said.
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Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
Physical AI dominated CES this week, yet questions persist over affordability, usefulness and mass market demand.
Google is rolling out a wave of AI features in Gmail, aiming to turn the e-mail service into a proactive “inbox assistant”.
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Bolt, a rival of Uber’s ride-sharing and food delivery business, plans to focus on Europe and Africa for now, CEO Markus Villig said.
An unnamed investor has proposed stumping up $5-million for a 51% stake in the company, provided criminal proceedings against the Cajees are dropped.
Following a meeting with the CEOs of six of South Africa’s telecommunications infrastructure operators on Monday, Icasa is moving to license access to “provisional spectrum”.
Vodacom Group will acquire a co-controlling interest, along with Remgro and New GX Capital, in a new entity made up of assets including Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa.
How did a temporary loss of imported electricity on Saturday plunge the country into stage-4 load shedding for an entire week?
Econet Group, the company founded by Zimbabwean tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, has announced the creation of a new entity that will hold many of the group’s assets.
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Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, said it will repurchase as much as US$40-billion of shares in a new buyback programme and boosted its quarterly dividend by $0.05 to $0.51/share.
Huawei is offering up its most valuable 5G secrets and $1.5-billion to software developers, courting the global tech community at a time the US is heightening scrutiny of the Chinese giant.
Facebook has said it expects to name the first members of a new quasi-independent oversight board by the end of the year.
The Trump administration proposed new regulations on Tuesday to toughen national security reviews of foreign investments in US companies involved in technology and infrastructure.
First it was self-driving cars, then Google Glass, and now with Project Loon, Google is turning its attention to … balloons. The company has begun a pilot project in New Zealand using high-pressure balloons in the stratosphere to provide Internet connectivity “at 3G speeds” and, if it goes well, Google wants to encircle
Telkom has agreed to pay a R200m penalty, to functionally separate its retail and wholesale divisions, to adhere to pricing commitments for the next five years, and to allow its future conduct to be monitored. This all forms part of a settlement with the Competition Commission over anticompetitive abuses
