New research suggests that the average cost of a data breach in South Africa is a staggering R32m. According to the research, from Ponemon Institute and commissioned by IBM Security, that figure has risen by 12% in the past

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When ZAR X settled its first trade in February this year, it was the first stock exchange transaction in South Africa to take place outside of the JSE in more than a century. With the Financial Services Board’s appeals board having dismissed

Communications regulator Icasa warned on Wednesday that it is considering cancelling four licences issued to telecommunications companies because it has been unable to make contact with them. It said in a statement that it is “considering

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Wimbledon tennis tournament, which starts Monday, will use IBM’s artificial intelligence agent Watson to help direct fans to the…

Facebook’s social network now has two billion monthly active users – about a quarter of the world’s population and more than half of the people on the Internet. It’s the first social network to connect that many people. Google’s YouTube

Blue Label Telecoms, the company that is in the throes of acquiring a significant minority stake in mobile operator Cell C, said on Tuesday that it plans to spend R1.9bn on a separate acquisition – of smartphone distributors 3G Mobile

Mobile operator MTN South Africa has poached Telkom’s top communications executive. Jacqui O’Sullivan has resigned from the partially state-owned telecommunications provider, where she has served as managing executive

A new cyberattack similar to WannaCry is spreading across Europe, hitting major companies from Rosneft in Moscow to AP Moller-Maersk in Copenhagen while disrupting government systems in Kiev. More than 80 companies in Russia and Ukraine

Google lost its biggest regulatory battle yet, getting a record €2.4bn fine from European Union enforcers who say the search-engine giant skewed results in its favour to thwart smaller shopping search services. Google has 90 days to “stop its