It was one of the biggest technology stories of 2019. Distributed denial-of-service attacks crippled several South African Internet service providers this year. Now the industry is fighting back.

Intel has bought Habana Labs, an Israeli start-up that develops chips for artificial intelligence applications, for about $2-billion to bolster its efforts in the fast-growing market for AI silicon.

Bitcoin dropped below $7 000 for the first time since November, with the sell-off pushing the cryptocurrency to its lowest level since May.

Promoted | In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral talks to Axiz executive Traci Maynard about the importance – and upsides and risks – of using incentives in the IT distribution channel.

Promoted | Less than 2% of South African rural households can access the Internet from home. Clearly there is work to be done if more people are going to be part of the connected economy.

In an era of rapid change and evolution, it is difficult to determine which technologies are genuine disruptors. Alviva, although an IT company, believes it is not, in fact, the IT industry that will produce the next big game changer. By Pierre Spies.

Google’s idealistic history increases the burden on its executives to bring along reluctant employees as it adopts more conventional corporate practices. It’s not going to be easy as tensions boil over.

China’s ambassador threatened Germany with retaliation if it excludes Huawei Technologies as a supplier of 5G wireless equipment, citing the millions of vehicles German car makers sell in China.

US President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one trade deal with China, averting the 15 December introduction of a new wave of US tariffs on about $160-billion of consumer goods from the Asian nation.

EOH Holdings subsidiary EOH Abantu has agreed to sell its shares in Dental Information Systems (Denis Group) to AfroCentric Investment Corp for an effective R250-million.