333 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will hold a media briefing in Beijing on 16 July, an official from the company said on Sunday, marking his second…
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Temu launches warehouse in South Africa – MyBroadband
415 Temu says it has launched a local warehouse in South Africa, allowing it to provide shoppers much faster delivery times. The direct-from-China online marketplace tags items available from its South African…
South Africa begins complex job of overhauling media laws
357 Solly Malatsi. Image c/o DCDT The department of communications & digital technologies on Friday gazetted the draft white paper on audio and audio-visual media services (AAVMS) and online safety for public…
Wholesale price increases for .za domains
319 The .ZA Domain Name Authority (Zadna) has announced wholesale price increases for co.za, org.za, net.za, and web.za from R61 to R65 per domain. The price adjustment takes effect on 1 October…
Zuckerberg used open source to scale AI – now the lock-in begins
384 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…
The man who pioneered online business journalism in South Africa
399 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
320 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…
Interesting trend in online gambling in South Africa
306 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
312 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
375 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…