124 The South African Post Office’s joint business rescue practitioners have asked the high court to end the entity’s business rescue, declaring the adopted plan substantially implemented nearly three years after the…
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Prominent South African investor joins the board of SpaceX
100 Roelof Botha In a major corporate governance move following its blockbuster Wall Street debut, SpaceX has appointed prominent South African-born venture capitalist Roelof Botha to its board of directors. According to…
Cook warns of unavoidable Apple price hikes
112 Apple CEO Tim Cook Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset increasing memory and storage chip costs, CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal in an interview….
Finish the job Mandela started
89 The author, VALR CEO Farzem Ehsani Before we defend or abolish exchange control, we should ask a simpler question: what is the policy actually trying to achieve? It is usually justified…
SpaceX vaults past Amazon and Microsoft in market value
87 SpaceX roared past Amazon’s market valuation on Tuesday and briefly topped that of Microsoft, rapidly scaling the list of the world’s most valuable companies on a topsy-turvy trading day fuelled by…
Watts & Wheels S1E6: ‘A flawless Alfa and a bakkie that divides’
78 Episode 6 of Watts & Wheels – TechCentral’s electric motoring show – sees hosts William Kelly and Duncan McLeod wade into the most opaque corner of the South African car market:…
The web belongs to the machines nowÂ
93 Bot traffic has overtaken human traffic online – and South African operators warn that automated traffic, from relentless scrapers to targeted attacks, is straining what local infrastructure can absorb, while a…
AI will leave the world short of workers, says Jeff Bezos
95 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Abdul Saboor/Reuters Artificial intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech…
The US just showed it can switch off our AI
94 US President Donald Trump Last Sunday morning, Dewald van Staden, technical co-founder of local AI start-up Siglia, woke up to a silent disaster. Just 48 hours earlier, everything had been running…
Good news for South Africa’s economy
92 South African inflation rose by less than expected in May, which analysts said reduced the likelihood of another interest rate hike next month. Headline consumer inflation quickened to 4.5% year on…