ZTE is estimating losses of at least 20bn yuan ($3.1bn) from a US technology ban that’s halted major operations as clients pull out of deals and expenses mount, people familiar with the matter said. The telecommunications
A consortium co-founded by Riccardo Spagni, the South African blockchain and cryptocurrency expert who is lead maintainer of monero, has announced a new open-source blockchain protocol built specifically for digital
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to SqwidNet acting CEO Phathizwe Malinga about the deployment of Internet of things technologies in South Africa. Malinga, who took the
South Africa is proposing automakers including Toyota, Ford and BMW more than double production in return for tax breaks so generous that the companies can ship the cars all the way to Europe. The car industry
The US Air Force has delayed the launch of its first Global Positioning System III satellite from this month to October at the earliest as it reviews the upgraded rocket that Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to use to boost it into
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Adobe Systems has agreed to buy e-commerce company Magento for US$1.7bn in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the digital commerce industry from Salesforce.com and Oracle. The Photoshop software provider is making
Sony is buying EMI Music Publishing, getting its hands on a catalogue of 2.1m songs from Beyonce, Carole King and other artists as it embarks on a new growth plan built on content and services. The Japanese company will
Intel, the biggest maker of computer processors, said it found another way to attack computers related to the chip security flaws announced earlier this year. The means to protect against the vulnerability is already in place
Growth in South Africa’s IT sector will far outperform the rest of the economy, driven by the shift to cloud computing, according to new research from International Data Corp. In a presentation at Microsoft in