Eskom’s 96-year history is replete with former CEOs who rose from within the debt-laden state utility to run the company. There are few obvious choices for the next CEO to come from those same ranks.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Intergreatme CEO Luke Warner about how the technology start-up managed a R32-million fundraising round using a crowdfunding platform.

Seacom said on Tuesday that it is adding eight new points of presence across Africa, including at the continent’s first Microsoft Azure data centres, in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

The JSE says it had enough time to look at all the facts when it made its pre-listing assessment of the Iqbal Survé-linked companies Ayo Technology Solutions and Sagarmatha Technologies.

Forget drones. The future of deliveries may be robo-vans. A Chinese start-up called Neolix has kicked off mass production of its self-driving delivery vehicles.

The US and Japan will “dramatically expand” their cooperation in outer space, with missions to Mars and the moon coming “very soon”, US President Donald Trump said.

Apple has refreshed its iPod touch device for the first time in almost four years, adding a higher-performing chip to run features such as Group FaceTime and augmented reality.

Promoted | We spoke to several South African information executives at a recent Axiz Oracle CITO Forum about some of the reasons they see their data moving to cloud platforms in future.

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko hopes to work with other industry players to present a plan to President Cyril Ramaphosa about how to deal with the challenge presented by the US’s blacklisting of China’s Huawei.

While its rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C struggle with flat growth in a tough economic environment, Telkom is killing it in the mobile business, showing astonishing growth in subscribers in the past year.