The Facebook Live video of the murder of 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr by Steve Stephens has been watched at least 1,6m times. It took Facebook three hours to take the video down, and by that
It was the third hour of doing nothing that broke James Scott. The 25-year-old researcher was sitting at his desk at an insurance firm in northern England when the Internet went down. And with it went access to all
WorldRemit, a British money-transfer operator, sees revenue from transactions involving Africans doubling by 2020 as more people on the continent access mobile payment platforms and expatriates send cash home. The seven-year-old
Mastercard will work with South African partners to bring biometric cards to local consumers by the end of the year. The development follows two separate trials conducted recently with Pick n Pay and Absa. South Africa is the first
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Adriana Marais, one of the 100 people worldwide shortlisted by the Mars One project to travel to the Red Planet to establish a human colony. Marais stands a good chance of being one of the first people
Vodacom’s revamped Smart+ and Red+ integrated packages have seen increases in data, voice and SMS allocations across the board. And, in the case of its Smart packages – ranging from the R199 (200MB) to R699 (1GB) level
South Africa’s inflation rate fell to a six-month low in March after food price increases slowed. Consumer inflation eased to 6,1% from 6,3% in February, Statistics South Africa said in a report released
Large-scale cyberattacks with eye-watering statistics, like the breach of a billion Yahoo accounts in 2016, grab most of the headlines. But what often gets lost in the noise is how often small and medium-sized organisations
Korean prosecutors pursuing bribery charges against Samsung heir Jay Y Lee have zeroed in on a five-minute chat with the country’s president as the start of a relationship that put both behind bars. The landmark trial of South Korea’s
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his strategy for augmented reality on Tuesday, saying the social network will use smartphone cameras to overlay virtual items on the real world rather than waiting for AR glasses to be technically possible. People will