TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod is joined by Africa Data Centres CEO Stephane Duproz for a discussion on the company’s recent acquisition of Standard Bank’s Samrand data centre.

South African business leaders lauded the government’s plan to substantially ease a nationwide lockdown that’s crippled the economy, even as the number of the coronavirus cases grows exponentially.

The US decision to add 33 Chinese entities to a trade blacklist risks potential retaliation from Beijing as tensions between the world’s two biggest economies deteriorate further.

Huawei has asked Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix for a stable memory chip supply despite apparently mounting pressure from the US to isolate the Chinese telecommunications company.

MTN South Africa has introduced new prepaid data bundles offering 1GB of data valid for the day of purchase for R29.

On 27 May, two US astronauts are planning to launch from the Kennedy Space Centre on a mission to the International Space Station. What’s remarkable is they will not be launched by Nasa but by a private company.

Big spending numbers are being thrown around in China, once again. This time, it’s trillions of yuan of fiscal stimulus on all things tech. The plans are bold and vague.

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Compare the draft regulations leaked over the weekend to the original “framework for sectors” published for comment and it’s clear that these are level 3 in name only; we’ve all but skipped right to level 2.

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