139 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….
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Finish the job Mandela started
127 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
130 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’
109 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 now
122 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
115 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
113 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
117 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…
The new reality of enterprise security: scaling resilience amid complexity
111 Large enterprises face a cybersecurity mismatch: rising AI-powered attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) outpace understaffed teams. Fragmented tools create visibility gaps and alert fatigue. To build resilience, organisations should consolidate…
GSMA tells Africa to copy South Africa on devices
141 South Africa’s decision to scrap the 9% ad valorem excise duty on entry-level smartphones has been singled out by the GSMA as one of the clearest examples on the continent of…