Apple has warned that European Union proposals forcing it to stop using its own Lightning cable risks “creating an unprecedented volume of electronic waste”.

Intel gave bullish quarterly and full-year revenue forecasts, driven by a surge in demand for chips that power large cloud computing centres. The shares jumped as much as 7.8% in late trading.

Zimbabwean state doctors have found an unlikely ally in their four-month pay strike – telecommunications tycoon Strive Masiyiwa.

US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said new rules are coming soon that will put more limits on US companies supplying China’s telecommunications leader Huawei Technologies.

A cable repair ship set sail from Cape Town on Wednesday night and is expected to reach offshore Angola in the coming days when it will begin the first stage of work to repair undersea cables slowing Internet connections in South Africa.

After years of ploughing billions into shifting from serving customers in branches to mobile apps and instant payments, lenders are often in the dark about the difference their spending is making to operating profit.

United Nations human rights experts have called for an investigation into allegations that the Saudi Arabian crown prince was involved in the hacking of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos’s phone.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity.

Google engineers said a tool Apple developed to help users avoid Web tracking is fundamentally flawed and creates more problems than it solves.

With a fixed-line business under pressure, an IT services company feeling the pinch and a mobile business facing strong competition, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has a difficult road ahead of him. By Duncan McLeod.