Eskom said on Monday that it has put “contingency measures” in place to reduce the risk of its reliance on software from US technology firm Oracle, with which it is in a contractual dispute.

In this extract from At Any Cost, a book on convicted South African fraudster Elan Eyal, author Stephen Timm explains how tech entrepreneurs like Eyal are able to hoodwink angel investors.

MTN Nigeria resumed airtime sales on banking channels Sunday after banks lifted a ban on the telecommunications operator following an intervention by the government.

Some Nigerian lenders have cut off MTN Nigeria from their banking platforms, making it impossible for millions of customers to buy credit for their phones.

LG Electronics will wind down its loss-making mobile division after failing to find a buyer, a move that is set to make it the first major smartphone brand to completely withdraw from the market.

Tim Cook has been with Apple for 23 years and served as its CEO for nearly a decade, but he used a new podcast appearance to suggest that some kind of an eventual change may be on the horizon.

The cryptocurrency market capitalisation hit an all-time peak of $2-trillion on Monday as gains over the last several months attracted demand from both institutional and retail investors.

Naspers has hired a top Airbnb and former Amazon executive to lead its global online classifieds business, it said on Thursday, as the technology investor looks to shore up contributions from core businesses.

Vodacom has reduced the price of a gigabyte of data, bought on an ad hoc basis, by 14%, from R99 to R85, and adjusted several other data tariffs.

In sub-Saharan Africa, there are now more than a million kilometres of terrestrial fibre, most of which is terribly underutilised due to high access costs. The solution may have its origins in Britain’s early postal system.