A sophisticated successor to Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope won’t launch until at least May 2020 to allow for additional testing and fix production errors in a project that will require more money from the US congress

In a bid to boost financial inclusion in South Africa, bank accounts may soon be linked to easy-to-remember identifiers like cellphone numbers. The linking of bank accounts to easy-to-remember identifiers

Google could owe Oracle billions of dollars after an appeals court said it didn’t have the right to use the Oracle-owned Java programming code in its Android operating system on mobile devices. Google’s use of Java

Huawei Technologies has introduced its challenger to Apple’s iPhone X and Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S9, amid the company’s fallout with US retailers, wireless carriers and government officials. The 5.8-inch P20 smartphone

Orange plans to distribute as many as 20 000 solar kits in four African countries in partnership with UK-based renewable energy firm BBOXX as an increasing number of companies seek to roll out off-grid solar power

A record wave of stock is heading for Ghana’s market as MTN Group is said to prepare to sell a chunk of its local unit to investors for about $790m (R9.2bn). The shares should be snapped up, the country’s

Xiaomi has unveiled its latest top-tier smartphone to bring the fight to Apple and Samsung, as the Chinese start-up readies a highly anticipated initial public offering.
Co-founder Lei Jun showed off the MIX 2S, which

You can now tip your Uber driver directly from the app in South Africa. The Internet ride-hailing company announced on Tuesday that it has introduced the tipping feature with immediate effect. At the end of each trip, Uber

In this wide-ranging episode of The Best in Tech podcast, host Regardt van der Berg chats to 702’s Aki Anastasiou about how technology has changed traffic reporting, the future of autonomous cars in South Africa

SqwidNet, the Internet of things (IoT) network operator launched as a partnership between Dark Fibre Africa and France-headquartered IoT specialist Sigfox, now covers 83% of South Africa’s population, it said on