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    Lessons for African broadband – from 19th century Britain’s postal service

    By Steve Song1 April 2021

    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.

    Dimension Data acquires Amazon cloud specialist Acacia

    By Staff Reporter1 April 2021

    Dimension Data said on Thursday that it has acquired Acacia Cloud Solutions, a cloud implementation specialist that works closely with Amazon Web Services.

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    By Agency Staff1 April 2021

    Mastercard will invest $100-million in Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations, valuing the business at $2.65-billion, the London-listed company said on Thursday.

    TSMC to invest $100-billion to meet chip demand

    By Agency Staff1 April 2021

    TSMC plans to invest $100-billion over the next three years to increase capacity at its chip-making plants, days after Intel announced a $20-billion plan to expand its advanced chip manufacturing capacity.

    Huawei warns of supply chain disruption after growth evaporates

    By Agency Staff1 April 2021

    Huawei Technologies’ quarterly revenue shrank for the first time on record, reflecting the devastating impact of US sanctions on China’s largest technology company.

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    By Richard Firth1 April 2021

    It’s been a year since one of the biggest corporate shifts in recent history – the mass move to work-from-home strategies by companies all over the world as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. By Richard Firth.

    FoodGuru: Helping the food sector become digital

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    Promoted | The FoodGuru platform is set to change the way the food industry operates in South Africa.

    5 reasons to get excited about next-gen HCI

    By Hewlett Packard Enterprise1 April 2021

    Promoted | HCI 2.0 from Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an intelligent platform that disaggregates compute and storage, and integrates hyperconverged control for simple management on a flexible architecture.

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