357 US megaretailer Walmart’s move to introduce its own-branded stores in South Africa is going to be met with stiff competition from established retailers, but its advancements in retail technology – spanning…
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Larry Ellison is back: from Silicon Valley bad boy to AI kingmaker
274 Fortune magazine wondered on its cover whether Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison might become the world’s richest person, while BusinessWeek declared Ellison is “cool again”, noting that “Silicon Valley’s bad boy is…
Parks Tau turns thoughtful reform into farce
397 Trade minister Parks Tau It felt like good progress was being made on two fronts – easing the labour law burden on small companies and enabling lending to small businesses. But…
Wafer-thin phones prove design is trumping common sense
361 In the smartphone industry, thin is in — but it really shouldn’t be. Last week, Apple unveiled the iPhone 17 Air, its thinnest iPhone ever, while Samsung recently debuted the Galaxy…
Sentech turns in loss despite hike in revenue, clean audit
370 Sentech CEO Tebogo Leshope Despite allegedly being owed R1-billion or more by the SABC for signal transmission fees, Sentech has reported 16% growth in revenue for the 2024/2025 financial year. However,…
Alphabet joins the $3-trillion club
268 Google parent Alphabet hit a market capitalisation of US$3-trillion for the first time on Monday, riding on renewed optimism around artificial intelligence and a favourable antitrust ruling. Class-A shares of the…
Worst of electricity price hikes is over: Eskom CEO
301 Eskom CEO Dan Marokane Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has again pledged that the state-owned power utility will hold future electricity tariff hikes to single-digit increases, a major shift in tone from…
Get AI rules wrong, choke innovation, warns Competition Commission
307 Competition Commission deputy commissioner Hardin Ratshisusu Artificial intelligence poses a challenge for competition regulators, which must balance a desire for innovation and economic growth with the possibility that monopolistic, AI-driven markets…
Apple’s Liquid Glass era has begun
259 Apple’s big software refresh for 2025 is now live: iOS 26, macOS Tahoe (also called macOS 26), iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26 and visionOS all arrived on Monday, offering a…
The rise and fall of operating systems – a 45-year digital timelapse
249 What would it look like to compress more than four decades of technological upheaval into a few minutes of animated bars jostling for dominance? At first glance, these are just numbers…