Reshaad Sha is leaving Liquid Telecom Group, where he has served as CEO of the South African subsidiary since 2018, to start his own venture in the field of artificial intelligence.

Amazon.com will hire 3 000 people in customer service in South Africa this year, the e-retailing and cloud computing giant said on Thursday.

In this podcast, TechCentral is joined by Alen Ribic, co-founder of SweepSouth, the on-demand home cleaning company that last year raised R30-million in a funding round from Naspers.

The government told asset managers and banks it needs R1.5-trillion of infrastructure investment over the next decade, the country’s biggest specialist fixed-income fund said.

The coronavirus has disrupted the global economy, but it is the prospect of Europe becoming a casualty in the US-China tech war that keeps the president of the European Chamber in China “awake at night”.

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Aspen Pharmacare is working to ensure it can manage demand for a generic anti-inflammatory drug that was shown to improve survival in Covid-19 patients.

Zoom is planning to offer all its free and paying users end-to-end encryption for video calls and will launch a trial version in July, the video conferencing provider said.

Twitter is testing a new feature that will allow users to tweet using their voice, capturing up to 140 seconds of audio in a single tweet.

A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome Web browser, researchers at Awake Security said.