115 Imagine walking into your local store and paying with a cryptocurrency that always equals R1 – no wild swings, no speculation, just self‑sovereign certainty. A digital token that settles faster than…
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Bitcoin faces another reckoning
131 Bitcoin made a 16-month low and tested key US$60 000 support on Friday as a global selloff in technology stocks deepened and washed out risky bets across asset classes. The world’s largest…
Google goes from laggard to leader in AI
153 Image: Reuters Alphabet is taking on OpenAI with a gusto that underscores Wall Street’s perception that the Google parent is the leader in AI, a turn of events from a year…
Smartphone market hit by deepening memory crisis
158 Memory shortages will constrain sales of smartphones for some time, hurting demand for chip industry companies like supplier Qualcomm and chip architecture designer ARM Holdings, executives and analysts said on Wednesday…
Enterprise connectivity has moved from utility to strategy
116 Enterprises face a simple truth: the connectivity function is no longer a support, but a strategy. Mobile networks underpin every distributed team, IoT device and data-driven decision. Yet as mobile estates…
Crypto markets reel as bitcoin slides
135 Bitcoin was on the cusp of breaking below the key US$70 000 level on Thursday as a slide in the world’s largest cryptocurrency showed no signs of stopping. Bitcoin fell 2% in…
SA tech graduates arrive in jobs unprepared as skills gap widens
145 South African companies are paying to train newly hired tech graduates because universities are not supplying the digital skills employers need. As employers continue to shift hiring towards proven skills and…
Taxi industry bets on digital payments to modernise operations
140 The introduction of digital payments for the estimated 10 million South Africans who use minibus taxis daily is central to industry body Santaco’s efforts to propel the industry into the digital…
Starlink considers building its own phone
146 Elon Musk. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters With a SpaceX public listing expected this year, the company has plans for its revenue-generating Starlink business that could expand its reach into new markets, including a…
fibre-like broadband for South African homes
158 Vox, a specialist provider of top-class internet and voice solutions for homes and business, has announced the launch of Vox Kiwi Home Wireless. The new consumer broadband service delivers a fibre-like…