Microsoft has agreed to invest $1-billion in a partnership with research group OpenAI, gaining a prominent cloud-computing customer from the artificial intelligence field.

In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about Vumatel’s plans to roll out fibre broadband in Mitchell’s Plain and Alexandra. Can fibre be delivered to lower-income and even poor areas profitably?

Africa’s potential workforce will likely be larger than that of Asia by the end of the 21st century as both continents wrestle with different demographic and economic challenges.

Like many people without children, I think I’d make a good parent and as such will rescue my child’s future through far-reaching proclamations. For example, I’d ban them from social media. By James Francis.

Bob van Dijk received almost R1.9-billion in salary, incentives, and vested share options and shares appreciation rights in the year to March 2019, a regulatory filing published on Friday shows.

As part of an ambitious reform programme, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed plans to award telecommunications licences to two private operators next year, and sell a minority stake in Ethio Telecom.

Of all the executives, government officials and consultants being recruited to tackle the mammoth task of rescuing South Africa’s state power utility, the toughest task could fall to the person who has to take it apart.

ITV and the British Broadcasting Corporation have reached an agreement on a UK streaming venture, as they seek to respond to the incursion from digital rivals including Netflix.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has said his spaceship has just a few more test flights before he jumps on board for the first tourist trip.

Microsoft topped quarterly sales and profit projections, fuelled by steady demand for cloud computing services and a surprisingly strong Windows business.