Twitter on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that fell short of estimates after the struggling social media company restructured its advertising sales force and pared staff. The shares tumbled. Fourth quarter revenue
When our robot overlords arrive, will they decide to kill us or cooperate with us? New research from DeepMind, Google parent Alphabet’s London-based artificial intelligence unit, could ultimately shed
Nokia agreed to buy Comptel for €347m to add technology that helps phone carriers manage their networks, part of a push into software and services as network-gear sales sputter. Comptel shareholders will get
Uber’s food delivery service, UberEats, is expanding its footprijnt in South Africa, growing to new suburbs in Johannesburg and Cape Town. From Thursday, UberEats is also available in areas north
Naspers’s video-on-demand platform, ShowMax, has launched a lower-priced bouquet with a strong focus on local content. The new bouquet, which is available exclusively to Vodacom customers, costs R49/month
The 2017 state-of-the-nation address takes place today, 9 February. In the weeks that follow, the nine premiers will deliver their state-of-the-province addresses. The purpose of these addresses is to outline government policy
IBM will invest $70m (about R950m) in developing IT skills in Africa, the US technology giant said on Wednesday. The money will be used to build digital, cloud and cognitive computing IT skills to “help support a
Telecommunications group MTN warned on Wednesday that it will report a loss for the 2016 financial year due in large part to the regulatory fine imposed on it in its biggest market, Nigeria. It said it expects to report a loss in both basic headline
The downgrade of Cell C’s corporate credit rating to the junkiest of junk by S&P Global Rating is another blow to the telecommunications company’s brave ambition of reducing its crippling debt load of R20,7bn. This is the view of
Communications regulator Icasa will hold public hearings later this week that will determine how scarce radio frequency spectrum is utilised in future. The idea, according to Icasa, is to update the National Radio Frequency Plan to