129 Uber Technologies has committed more than US$10-billion to buying thousands of autonomous vehicles and taking stakes in their developers, breaking from its asset-light “gig economy” business model to avoid disruption from…
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Sars tightens its grip on tax penalties
176 Legislative amendment narrows the bona fide ‘inadvertent error’ defence route. The powers of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) in the Tax Administration Act to raise penalties for non-compliance should not…
Telkom launches prepaid fibre for businesses
183 Telkom’s Lunga Siyo Telkom Business has launched a prepaid fibre product aimed at small enterprises, start-ups and short-term operations that want reliable connectivity without signing a long-term contract or going through…
Warning: Food prices in SA set to increase in the near future
169 For South African households, one of the most immediate impacts of the conflict will be rising food prices. The Absa AgriTrends report has issued a stern warning to low-income households about…
Anthropic tightens the screws on OpenAI
140 Image: Jernej Furman OpenAI’s US$852-billion valuation is under scrutiny from some of its own backers as the company shifts its focus to the enterprise market to fend off competition from Anthropic,…
The hidden risk in South Africa’s payment infrastructure
160 South Africa has been off the Financial Action Task Force’s greylist for around six months, and now we risk hitting a different, perhaps more worrying, kind of greyish trap: being “greyed…
Nearly R82m refurbishment of the Agulhas Lighthouse Precinct creates 117 jobs
108 The Agulhas lighthouse precinct is located at Cape Agulhas where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. Minister of Tourism Patricia de Lille has expressed her pleasure at how many jobs have…
The case for unbundling SuperSport
118 Inside a SuperSport outside broadcast truck on match day SportyTV, a streaming-only platform most South Africans have never heard of, this week announced it has secured pay-television rights to all 104…
Simplify Microsoft Teams calling with Telviva
154 The author, Telviva’s Rob Lith Even as South African organisations embrace online and collaborative working, along with remote and hybrid working environments enabled through tools such as Microsoft’s productivity suite, voice…
Have a credit card with Standard Bank? Fraudsters may be after you
136 It is understood that the majority of Standard Bank credit card customers may have been affected by the data breach. Standard Bank has lifted the lid a little on the extent…