Ford will plough over $1-billion into a plant in South Africa – its biggest-ever investment in the country – as the car maker scales back in other regions including Brazil and Europe.

Vodacom South Africa boosted investment in its network by 12.3% year on year in the quarter ended 31 December 2020, bringing capital expenditure to R2.7-billion from R2.4-billion in the year-ago quarter.

Nigeria has given telecommunication providers an extra eight weeks to add valid national ID numbers to every Sim card registered in the country, according to a statement.

The foundation that operates Wikipedia will launch its first global code of conduct on Tuesday, seeking to address criticism that it has failed to combat harassment and suffers from a lack of diversity.

Promoted | Many companies still see the mainframe as relevant and are building it into their architecture in a way that limits security issues, delegates at a Micro Focus roundtable said.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight later this year, to be led by a technology entrepreneur who will be joined by three other people.

Icasa has hit back hard at Telkom’s application to interdict the upcoming spectrum auction, warning that if the company is successful, it will serve to entrench Vodacom and MTN’s “duopoly” – the very thing Telkom claims it wants to avoid.

Telecommunications company Huge Group has secured the backing of more than three-quarters of its shareholders for its R795-million pursuit of JSE-listed software services group Adapt IT, it said on Monday.

Xiaomi filed a complaint in a Washington against the US defence and treasury departments, seeking to remove the Chinese smartphone maker from an official list of companies with ties to China’s military.

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday bitcoin was “on the verge” of being more widely accepted among investors as he expressed his support for the cryptocurrency.