Facebook’s plans to create a new cryptocurrency that can be used for everything from commerce to money transfers is facing pushback from angry US lawmakers.

Nokia and Ericsson have recently wrested notable long-term deals from Huawei to build 5G wireless networks, with analysts say more could come their way as Huawei grapples with a US export ban.

South Africa simply has to rescue the nation’s distressed power utility. Even though it can’t afford to.

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Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo could one day be used to detect signs of cardiac arrest, scientists believe.

Promoted | In this episode of the podcast, Suse country manager Grant Bennett talks about the company’s partnership with SAP and how corporate South Africa is increasingly realising the benefits of moving to the cloud.

The decline in the number of subscribers to DStv Premium accelerated slightly in the year to March 2019 and MultiChoice is actively looking at ways to stem the erosion.

MultiChoice reported a strong set of full-year results on Tuesday, with good growth coming from its lower-tier pay-television bouquets, although its DStv Premium segment remains under pressure.

Facebook, a centralised corporate giant with a history of customer data-use controversies, is an unlikely candidate for bringing cryptocurrencies to the masses.

First National Bank’s online banking website suffered unscheduled downtime on Tuesday, with frustrated customers taking to social media to complain about the outage.