179 MultiChoice Group has announced details for the first time about its plans to restructure the shareholding in its main South African operation to facilitate the JSE-listed broadcaster’s sale to France’s Groupe…
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From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: who’s really winning the innovation war?
188 One of the barriers to understanding the world is our fixation on sports thinking: who is winning and who is catching up? This has long been true of politics — we…
System failure hits South Africa’s busiest airport
185 Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), a state-owned company, said on Friday that there has been a “systems failure” at OR Tambo International Airport that disrupting flights. OR Tambo is South…
The average cost of a data breach in South Africa
235 The cost of a data breach in South Africa has declined slightly to R44.1-million, according to a new research report from IBM. The company said in a statement on Friday that…
Experts dismiss Taiwan chip threat as low risk to South Africa
179 A TSCM fabrication plant in Taiwan The apparent threat by Taiwanese officials to impose microchip export restrictions on South Africa is likely unenforceable. Most of the electronic equipment sold in South…
Novus bid for Mustek runs into more heavy weather
174 Mustek’s head office in Midrand, Johannesburg Printing and packaging firm Novus Holdings’ offer to buy out other shareholders in technology group Mustek has hit another hurdle. The two companies said in…
Bitcoin devours electricity meant for the world’s poor
188 For seven decades, poor countries wanting to get rich have turned again and again to dams. For the post-independence leaders of Egypt and Ghana in the 1950s, hydroelectricity and sovereignty were…
BYD reportedly launching sub-R400 000 electric car in South Africa
181 BYD’s Atto 1 BYD – the Shenzhen-headquartered vehicle manufacturer sometimes referred to as “China’s Tesla” – will launch its lowest-model to date, the Atto 1, in South Africa next month, at…
Trump tariffs to slam South Africa
182 Trade minister Parks Tau South Africa faces a 30% tariff on its exports to the US starting next week, a move expected to cost tens of thousands of jobs after the…
Tim Cook says Apple ready to open its wallet to catch up in AI
232 Apple CEO Tim Cook. Carlos Barria/Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook signalled on Thursday the iPhone maker was ready to spend more to catch up to rivals in artificial intelligence by building…