The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) has partnered with technology training and career development company ALX to equip South Africa’s youth with digital and entrepreneurial skills. The... 

The renewal of technology group Wärtsilä’s operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement with QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM), which is part of the Rio Tinto group, has been expanded to include a... 

JSE-listed MTN on Monday reported double-digit declines in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) and service revenue for the first half of 2024. However, the group... 

Grid- and energy-optimisation software company Open Access Energy (OAE) has secured a $750 000 investment from technology innovations venture capital firm Factor E Ventures. The funding marks the... 

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses some of the key outcomes of the first meeting between Cabinet member and business leaders since the formation of the Government of National Unity.   

Huawei South Africa has launched the 2024 edition of Huawei’s Women in Tech, Digital Skills Training Programme, set to take place late in August. The annual event offers women free training in the... 

A new virtual mobile network operator (MVNO), C-Connect, has launched in South Africa, with ambitions of bringing more choice and competition to South Africa’s mobile subscribers. Leveraging... 

As MTN Group and IHS Towers renew and extend communications infrastructure deals in Nigeria, as well as renewing all contracts across IHS Towers-MTN markets, the parties are constructively working... 

A recent industrial solutions focused webinar, hosted by global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions Vertiv, provided valuable insights into the challenges faced by,... 

This year's #Coding4Mandela event, hosted by coding education company Tangible Africa, attracted 32 000 young participants from across Africa and Southeast Asia. The participants, operating from... 

JSE-listed Altron on Wednesday reported that nonexecutive director Robert (Robbie) Venter passed away on August 6. The Altron board expressed its deepest condolences to the Venter family, friends... 

JSE-listed Telkom has reported growth in the first quarter of 2024, with group earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) up 24.1% to R2.78-billion. In a trading update... 

In South Africa, stolen or compromised credentials was the most prevalent initial attack vector representing 17% of breaches, said information technology company IBM in its '2024 Cost of a Data... 

Industrial and mining IT provider Sedna Industrial IT Solutions has announced a change in its ownership structure, with the separation of its African business allowing for a renewed focus on... 

The Competition Commission on Thursday recommended, with conditions, the R6.75-billion sale of masts and towers business Swiftnet, a decision that JSE-listed Telkom has welcomed. Telkom obtained... 

Developing markets technology systems integrator Cassava Technologies has announced that its AI activities will operate as a separate business unit Cassava AI. Cassava AI is headquartered in London... 

JSE-listed Altron on Wednesday said that it expects its group headline earnings per share (HEPS) and group earnings per share (EPS) to increase by at least 20% for the six months ended August 31.... 

Amid a growing digital landscape characterised by increased Internet connectivity and smartphone use, as well as a pronounced shift towards online shopping, the South African e-commerce sector is... 

Data centre infrastructure company Africa Data Centres has added three halls, totalling 6 MW of IT load capacity that is now live, to its CPT1 facility in Cape Town, thereby doubling its capacity.... 

As the demand for AI processing power grows and thermal loads increase, liquid cooling has become a critical element in data center design. However, technology company Schneider Electric... 

Information and Communications Technology company EOH has announced that Ashona Kooblall has been appointed executive director and group CFO, with effect from Jully 22. Kooblall will succeed... 

South African behavioural leadership training platform for women Yugrow seeks to expand into Asia to address the region's unique societal and cultural challenges. Yugrow is a behaviour technology... 

Liquid cooling technology is critically important for the future of data centres, technology company Schneider Electric secure power division cooling innovation and strategy director Maurizio... 

South African Revenue Service (Sars) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter on July 16 thanked those taxpayers who have interacted with the service over the past two weeks. This includes those who were... 

The governing body of the iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), which is a programme of Infrastructure Masons, has called on the digital infrastructure industry to more widely adopt the publication of... 

Technology company Schneider Electric has introduced new model-based, automated sustainability reporting features within its EcoStruxure IT data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) software.... 

Altron is pursuing a new broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) ownership transaction that will result in the launching of a sustainable information and communications technology (ICT)... 

Telecommunications company Vodacom is investing more than R400-million over the current financial year to increase capacity and resilience and accelerate access to connectivity throughout the Free... 

The nature and scale of the digital sector’s environmental footprint remains largely unassessed, and there is an urgent need for sustainable strategies throughout the life cycle of digitalisation,... 

At a recent showcase event hosted at the FNB Stadium, in Gauteng, technology company Dwyka Mining Services and its sister company Deep-Tech introduced several new drone-based solutions to South... 

Cape Town- and London-based technology company Suppple launched an AI health bot at Africa Health ExCon, held in Egypt in June. Suppple says the health bot will provide digital healthcare... 

Technology-focused private equity investment management company Convergence Partners has met all conditions precedent to acquire 100% of system integration service company Datacentrix from... 

President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed the Democratic Alliance’s Solly Malatsi as Communications and Digital Technologies Minister as the Government of National Unity’s Cabinet is formed. He... 

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the issues tackled during Phase 1 of Operation Vulindlela and the successes achieved thus far; the likelihood of Operation Vulindlela continuing as... 

Generative AI (genAI) is having a measurable impact on companies that adopt these systems, and 58% of workers that are using genAI are able to save five hours a week in work time, the 'AI at Work...