“It seems surreal to me,” said Elon Musk, proprietor of SpaceX, and for once he was understating things. On Tuesday, his company blasted a 70 metre rocket into orbit, returned its two side boosters to Earth
The head of the World Bank has compared cryptocurrencies to “Ponzi schemes”, the latest financial voice to raise questions about the legitimacy of digital currencies such as bitcoin. “In terms of using bitcoin or some of the
Slow clap for Snapchat, which managed not to fall on its face during a quarterly earnings report for the first time in its history. Parent company Snap reported this week that its advertising revenue increased more than Wall Street
Government’s Electronic Communications Amendment Bill is unconstitutional, will create a new infrastructure monopoly in the form of a proposed wholesale open-access network and will ultimately be detrimental
Telkom wants a drastically different approach to future spectrum allocation than its bigger rivals, MTN and Vodacom, arguing in a submission to government that all unassigned high-demand spectrum
MTN Group plans to raise about $500m from the sale of shares in its Nigerian business during the first half of the year, fulfilling the terms of a deal struck with the West African nation to settle a record
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has held a press conference to discuss the successful debut test flight of Falcon Heavy. The company on Tuesday night, South African time, launched the Falcon Heavy, with a cherry-red
An elated Elon Musk pulled off another seemingly impossible feat on Tuesday when SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful rocket in 45 years, then flew two of its spent boosters back to the Florida coast
Microsoft, Google and Apple have thrown their support behind proposals in the US congress to deal with cross-border data requests from law enforcement – even as the issue heads for review before the supreme court
MultiChoice has agreed to cooperate with the Communications Workers Union to try to reduce job losses at ANN7, the formerly Gupta-owned 24-hours channel that will be pulled off the DStv bouquet in