Promoted | While the economic environment is creating a tough operating landscape for South African retailers, technology is providing near-infinite opportunities for forward-thinking companies.

Promoted | Xerox’s DocuShare and ConnectKey apps have helped the company win the “BLI 2020 Document Imaging Software Line of the Year Award” and the “Outstanding MFP App Ecosystem” title.

Following Alphabet’s decision on Thursday to kill off its Loon Internet balloon start-up, Vodacom Group has said it will no longer proceed with a Loon project to deliver communications in rural Mozambique.

Google parent Alphabet is shutting down its Internet balloon business, Loon, which aimed to provide a less expensive alternative to cellphone towers, saying on Thursday that it was not commercially viable.

A former IT executive at mobile operator Cell C, Mohamed Ismail Adamjee, has been arrested by the Hawks in connection with an alleged R64-million tender scam, according to a report.

In the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, Jeremy Grantham warned that US stocks were in an epic bubble. He now predicts Joe Biden’s economic recovery plan will propel them to perilous new heights, followed by an inevitable crash.

Intel’s surprise resolve to stick with chip manufacturing is a move that ought to bring a sigh of relief to leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

Uganda will maintain its shutdown of Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms until the government deems they’re safe from being used to inflame tensions, a report said.

Intel gave an upbeat forecast for the current quarter on continued demand for PCs that enable working and studying from home. The stock jumped.

Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a US$100-million prize for development of the “best” technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions.