237 Mark Zuckerberg Like any good investor, Mark Zuckerberg likes to make a return, but he’s willing to play the long game. It took a decade from spending US$19-billion on WhatsApp before…
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The man who pioneered online business journalism in South Africa
269 Alec Hogg is one of South Africa’s Internet publishing pioneers, having started the country’s first online business publication, Moneyweb, in 1996 in an office above his garage. Before his foray into…
Microsoft South Africa to get new MD as Lillian Barnard moves to regional role
221 Lillian Barnard, president of Microsoft Africa and acting MD of Microsoft South Africa, is relinquishing both roles after being named as the new head of the software giant’s enterprise partner solutions…
Meet the South African who started a Silicon Valley AI firm at 22, made it on Forbes and won a Google award
235At 16, she won the Google Science Fair; at 22, she launched her AI company; and at 25, she made it onto the Forbes list. South African Kiara Nirghin has been making…
Unpacking ‘lazy girl jobs’ and why it’s not what it sounds like
209 Although “lazy girl jobs” may sound like a criticism, they are actually a cultural movement that questions traditional work values. Popularised on social media platforms such as TikTok, the phrase relates…
Interesting trend in online gambling in South Africa
180 Revenues from online gambling have surged in South Africa in recent years, with the turnover from betting exceeding that of casinos by a substantial margin. Although Internet gambling platforms cannot obtain…
Legislative overhaul on the cards for South Africa’s ICT sector
191 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image c/o DCDT The department of communications & digital technologies will host a policy colloquium soon to solicit inputs ahead of a planned overhaul of South Africa’s…
Africa’s Internet registry faces liquidation – MyBroadband
244 IP broker Cloud Innovation has instituted liquidation proceedings against the African Network Information Centre (Afrinic) on Thursday, 10 July, with notice of the action placed in Mauritian newspapers. In a statement…
Trump tariffs could wreck South Africa’s vehicle manufacturing industry
200 Naamsa CEO Mikel Mabasa South African motoring industry lobby body Naamsa has warned that US President Donald Trump’s plan to impose unilateral 30% tariffs on South Africa from 1 August could…
Truth about Temu local warehouse launch in South Africa
241 While Temu has been promoting the launch of what it terms “local warehouse” in South Africa, it does not actually operate its own distribution centres. The direct-from-China online marketplace said it…