Investors are being forced into bitcoin and gold by persistent monetary stimulus by global central banks, which has eroded the store-of-value characteristics from traditional financial markets. By Rob Price.

HP laptop maker Inventec said it will to shift production of notebooks for the US market out of China within months, adding to the tech industry’s exodus as the world’s two largest economies escalate their trade war.

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US airline safety regulators banned select MacBook Pro laptops on flights after Apple recently said that some units had batteries that posed a fire risk.

Hopes of an edit button flying onto Twitter anytime soon are fading after a senior executive indicated that it is not a primary concern for the social network.

Regulators, including Icasa and the Competition Commission, will have to be pragmatic and lenient about a looming expanded tie-up between Cell C and MTN South Africa if the former isn’t going to go to the wall.

The licensing of new spectrum and “the cleaning out of spectrum” will boost South Africa’s economic growth through the roll-out of a fully fledged modern 5G network, a senior Huawei executive has said.

You know legacy circuit-switched voice is living on borrowed time when the granddaddy of the technology in South Africa, Telkom, announces it’s wholeheartedly embracing voice over Internet protocol.

Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, according to people with knowledge of the work.

The head of Xbox has said the gaming giant wants to improve the “playability” of videogames with its next console.