SoftBank Group has agreed to buy ARM Holdings for £24,3bn (US$32bn; R460bn), securing a slice of virtually every mobile computing gadget on the planet and future connected devices in the home. The Japanese company is offering £17/share in cash
Science & technology minister Naledi Pandor says with only 16 dishes launched so far, the MeerKAT is already the best of its kind in the southern hemisphere. The minister said this on Saturday when she went to the Square Kilometre Array
A former palaeoanthropologist with a fascination for statistics is now turning her attention to South Africa’s financial markets. Merrill van der Walt, who was recently appointed as “big data” analyst for central securities depository
There is a moderately high (40%) chance of an interest rate hike by the Monetary Policy Committee of the South African Reserve Bank next week, said Peter Attard Montalto, emerging markets economist at Nomura. But in general, he sees
Had enough of the constant stream of text messages and calls from the Democratic Alliance as the 3 August municipal elections approach? The party has now provided details of how to unsubscribe yourself from its barrage of communication, and insisted that it
South Africa’s two biggest mobile operators, Vodacom and MTN, have welcomed the decision by communications regulator Icasa to press ahead with a plan to license mobile broadband spectrum through an auction process. Icasa surprised
Black professionals still earn significantly less than their white counterparts, according to research done by Analytico, a company that analyses earnings data in the private sector. Analytico looked at a sample of 65 628 individuals who work
Eight SABC journalists who filed an urgent application to the constitutional court to have their charges declared unlawful, have said their positions at the broadcaster have become “simply intolerable”. The journalists, dubbed the
A woman was kidnapped and raped after getting into what she thought was an Uber taxi in Fourways, Gauteng police said on Friday. A case of rape, kidnapping and robbery had been opened, Captain Mavela Masondo said. He said he could not
The decision by communications regulator Icasa to publish an invitation to apply for broadband spectrum licences – doing so before government has finalised the integrated national ICT policy white paper