Vast Networks’ Grant Marais is profiled in TechCentral’s regular Meet the CEO feature.

Social media platforms now shape public discourse as powerfully as newspapers and magazines did a generation ago, perhaps more so.

The Spotify app will be available when customers set up their new Samsung phones, a deal that could boost the music streaming service’s user base.

Google may be about to pair all that data it has on users’ Web browsing with the ads displayed on public billboards. Creepy? Maybe. Inevitable? Almost certainly.

Brace for hikes in the cost of gadgets and other technology items. The rand has weakened beyond R14/US$ for the first time since a credit downgrade in November.

Samsung Electronics has unveiled the Galaxy Note9, banking on the larger-screen device to rejuvenate sales of a struggling flagship line and fend off Apple’s upcoming iPhones over the holidays.

Two days after Elon Musk vowed on Twitter that he had “funding secured” for a spectacular $82-billion deal to take Tesla private, he has offered no evidence to back up the statement

Apple and Samsung’s domination of the smartphone world is being challenged like never before, with Chinese companies muscling in with cheaper and just as innovative devices.

MTN Group remains on track to report a total 2018 dividend of R5/share, despite “continued challenges in repatriating funds from MTN Irancell”, it said in notes alongside interim results for the six months to 30 June.

Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has used his first visit to South Africa to encourage governments in Africa to support small businesses to address the crippling challenge of unemployment.