143 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaking on a panel at Italian Tech Week 2025 in Turin, Italy. Remo Casilli/Reuters Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday that gigawatt-scale data centres will be…
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Bitcoin surges to new all-time record high
149 Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value, hit a record high on Sunday and was up nearly 2.7% at US$125 245.57 at 7.12am SAST. Bitcoin’s previous record was $124 480 in mid-August,…
Investors warn of global ‘hype bubble’ in AI
156 AI start-ups are attracting record sums of venture capital, but some of the world’s largest investors warned that early-stage valuations are starting to look frothy, senior investment executives said on Friday….
eMedia acquires stake in global visual effects specialist
143 E.tv owner eMedia has acquired a 30% stake in Pristine World Holdings, a specialist provider of visual effects services to global film and television markets, for R119-million. The purchase will be…
Smartee 360 promises to end manual asset tracking in South African supply chains
173 Bluetooth Low Energy warehouse installation For decades, managing physical assets has been one of the most complex and error-prone parts of running a supply chain. Warehouses and distribution centres juggle thousands…
Seacom 2.0: Alpheus Mangale unpacks all the details about the giant new subsea system
128 Seacom last week announced that it plans to build one of the highest-capacity subsea broadband cable systems the world has ever seen. Dubbed Seacom 2.0, the cable system – which will…
Solidarity in deal to export South African skills online to US
147 Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann Trade union Solidarity has signed a deal with US company Propay Prime US to export South African IT skills – online, from South Africa. Propay, which focuses…
South African business conditions improve
187 Business conditions in South Africa’s private sector improved for the fifth month running in September, buoyed by a rise in output and new orders, S&P Global reported on Friday. The Purchasing…
Oracle urges urgent upgrades as hackers exploit flaws
131 Oracle said customers of its E-Business Suite of products “have received extortion e-mails”, confirming a warning first issued on Wednesday by Google. In a blog post, the California-based tech company said…
South Africa and Europe must forge new EV value chain, says BMW boss
184 BMW South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen South Africa and Europe should collaborate on building an alternative “value chain” for electric vehicle components such as batteries to reduce dependence on China,…