Robbie Venter, the former CEO of Altron and the son of South African business pioneer Bill Venter, has died.

MTN Group is going through an exceptionally difficult patch, with Nigeria set to drag it into a huge interim loss.

These are the local and global technology stories that caught the TechCentral team’s eye over the past 24 hours.

A botched platform designed to showcase apps developed by small South African businesses may get a new lease on life.

It seems digital terrestrial television in South Africa is over before it was even launched commercially.

For US chip giant Intel, the darling of the computer age before it fell on hard times, things might have been quite different.

Social engineering exploits human emotions, making it an effective and recurring threat, writes Arctic Wolf’s Jason Oehley.

The Consumer Goods and Services Ombudsman has warned that the legislative framework around e-commerce is lacking.

Apple’s lucrative deal with Google could be at risk after a US judge ruled the search giant was operating an illegal monopoly.

X has accused a global advertising alliance of unlawfully conspiring to boycott the social media site.