320 The BYD Dolphin Surf is officially South Africa’s most affordable electric car TechCentral regularly publishes a list of all the battery-electric vehicles available for sale in South Africa, along with prices,…
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From stocks to crypto, markets reel as AI doubts grow
145 Global markets retreated on Friday as a stock rout on Wall Street went global, with volatility gripping precious metals and cryptocurrencies while AI fears weighed on equities. The MSCI All-Country World…
South Africa deepens China ties as US trade tensions escalate
170 South Africa said on Friday that trade minister Parks Tau has signed a framework economic partnership agreement on a visit to China, which it described as a step towards securing duty-free…
why SA employers can’t find problem solvers
212 South Africa’s employers keep saying the same thing: graduates can recall information, but they can’t solve problems. The World Economic Forum ranks analytical thinking as the single most important skill for…
South Africa’s stablecoin silence is becoming a policy failure
169 Imagine walking into your local store and paying with a cryptocurrency that always equals R1 – no wild swings, no speculation, just self‑sovereign certainty. A digital token that settles faster than…
Bitcoin faces another reckoning
178 Bitcoin made a 16-month low and tested key US$60 000 support on Friday as a global selloff in technology stocks deepened and washed out risky bets across asset classes. The world’s largest…
Google goes from laggard to leader in AI
212 Image: Reuters Alphabet is taking on OpenAI with a gusto that underscores Wall Street’s perception that the Google parent is the leader in AI, a turn of events from a year…
Smartphone market hit by deepening memory crisis
217 Memory shortages will constrain sales of smartphones for some time, hurting demand for chip industry companies like supplier Qualcomm and chip architecture designer ARM Holdings, executives and analysts said on Wednesday…
Enterprise connectivity has moved from utility to strategy
147 Enterprises face a simple truth: the connectivity function is no longer a support, but a strategy. Mobile networks underpin every distributed team, IoT device and data-driven decision. Yet as mobile estates…
Crypto markets reel as bitcoin slides
193 Bitcoin was on the cusp of breaking below the key US$70 000 level on Thursday as a slide in the world’s largest cryptocurrency showed no signs of stopping. Bitcoin fell 2% in…