166 Britain has told parents to curb young children’s screen time, advising no screens for under-2s and up to an hour a day for 2- to 5-year-olds because prolonged solo use can…
Category: Tech
The real reason Absa wrote off R2.4-billion in software
164 Absa CTIO Johnson Idesoh Absa Group’s decision to take a R2.4-billion software impairment hit for the year ended 31 December 2025 is not solely because of AI – itself an accelerator…
Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment has arrived
191 Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the US has ruled. The Los Angeles jury took nearly nine days to…
Apple plans to open Siri to rival AI services
179 Apple plans to open its Siri voice assistant to rival AI services beyond its current partnership with ChatGPT, according to a report. The move, expected as part of Apple’s iOS 27…
MTN invests in AI network start-up alongside Nvidia
190 Mazen Mroué, CEO of MTN Digital Infrastructure MTN Group’s digital infrastructure arm has joined a US$45-million funding round in ORAN Development Company (ODC), a US-based start-up building AI-native radio access network…
War kills rate cut hopes as Reserve Bank warns of inflation spike
164 Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago The South African Reserve Bank maintained its main lending rate at 6.75% on Thursday, saying caution was needed as higher energy prices triggered by the US-Israel…
The R16-billion tech giant hiding in plain sight
197 Datatec group CEO Jens Montanana JSE-listed technology group Datatec has delivered a total shareholder return of 361%¹ over five years, making it one of the best-performing stocks in the local technology…
Solly Malatsi’s Post Office gamble
156 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has denied claims by business rescue practitioners (BRPs) for the South African Post Office that his refusal to allow them to…
Setback for South Africa’s electricity market reform
160 The launch of South Africa’s wholesale electricity market has been pushed back from 1 April to the third quarter of 2026, the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA) said on Thursday….
Africa powers mobile money to $2-trillion milestone
168 Global mobile money transactions surpassed US$2-trillion in 2025, doubling in just four years, according to the GSMA’s latest State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money. The mobile telecommunications industry body…