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- Huawei, MTN to help build 5G-powered ‘smart mine’Nkwe Platinum and South Africa Zijin Platinum have contracted MTN and Huawei to build what the parties are calling Southern Africa’s first 5G-enabled “smart metal mine”. Read more »
- Clear the regulatory fog, ISPs urge IcasaThe Internet service provider industry in South Africa is fed up with confusing regulations from communications regulator Icasa over ownership rules. Read more »
- Datatec to sell Analysys Mason for as much as R4.1-billionJSE-listed Datatec has agreed to sell its Analysys Mason business for as much as £210-million, with the proceeds to flow directly to its shareholders. Read more »
- Bitcoin just had its worst quarter in a decadeBitcoin is on track for its worst quarter in more than a decade, but experts believe the bottom may be near for the world's biggest cryptocurrency. Read more »
- The NFT party is overThe market for non-fungible tokens has been spiralling downward after sales sank sharply and the prices of popular NFTs plummeted over the last few weeks. Read more »
- Power cuts hit small businesses hardSmall businesses, still reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, are now under further strain during the worst power cuts in over two years. Read more »
- Samsung beats TSMC to 3nm chip productionSamsung Electronics has begun mass-producing chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology, the first to do so globally. Read more »
- E.tv: ‘We know we must vacate broadband spectrum bands’After successfully halting analogue switch-off on 30 June, e.tv has said it knows it needs to vacate the analogue spectrum bands as soon as possible. Read more »
- E-commerce is killing shopping malls – but, curiously, not in South AfricaThe South African market has evolved, and continues to evolve, differently from many other places in the world. Read more »
- Eskom warns recovery from strike chaos could take weeksEskom said there was still a high level of absenteeism among its workforce due to a strike and that it could take weeks to clear a maintenance backlog. Read more »
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