South Africa plans to slash its wage bill over the next three years, including a proposed pay freeze, as it earmarks massive expenditure cuts to reign in a soaring budget deficit.

Microsoft’s cloud computing business slightly re-accelerated and its Teams collaboration software won new users, as a pandemic-driven shift to working from home drove quarterly results ahead of investor targets.

Promoted Open-access fibre-to-the-home network operator Evotel has donned a new jacket to celebrate its growth over the past five years and reconfirmed its mission: to simplify fibre and bring it into every home in South Africa.

Promoted | Participants in a recent C-Suite roundtable discussion on IT modernisation hosted by Tech Central and sponsored by Okta and Obscure all described a long, slow journey that is still far from over.

Promoted | IT experts from leading businesses swapped ideas, discussed pain points and offered advice at a recent TechCentral CIO Perspectives Roundtable, sponsored by Pinnacle and Huawei, on data storage optimisation.

Gijima, the IT services group founded by businessman Robert Gumede, has agreed to acquire the South African subsidiary of T-Systems, the IT services arm of German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom.

South Africa’s biggest cities are preparing to source their own power after the energy ministry this month approved letting them wean themselves off the state utility.

National treasury has issued a request for proposals for a government tender to supply mobile services to government workers – and its main requirement is that they get completely uncapped mobile Internet access.

Bitcoin is approaching levels not seen since just after the burst of the cryptocurrency market bubble almost three years ago.

Semiconductor designer AMD said on Tuesday it would buy Xilinx in a US$35-billion all-stock deal, intensifying its battle with Intel in the data centre chip market.