Global services grounded to a halt in 2025. In 2025, digital services proved both indispensable and fragile, with Amazon Web Services (AWS), PlayStation Network, Snapchat and Cloudflare leading the largest outages of the year. This is according to a report compiled by research firm Ookla. Using Downdetector data from 2025 to analyse millions of user…
The TikTok community has spoken, and Africa has crowned its newest icons. The 2025 TikTok Awards Sub-Saharan Africa lit up Johannesburg on 6 December, marking a powerful moment in thecontinent’s rapidly evolving creator landscape. Under the bold theme “New Era, New Icons,” TikTok honored the creators who are reshaping culture, storytelling, and digital influence across…
A new regulatory framework that could significantly improve how South African start-ups attract global investors and scale internationally – without breaching tax or regulatory rules – is on the cards following nearly a decade of discussions. The regulatory sandbox was discussed at a recent Southern Africa Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (Savca) conference. Safeera…
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A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a cosmic outburst with the light of 10 trillion suns, according to a new study. The black hole flare, as the phenomenon is known, is thought to be the biggest and most distant ever recorded — it was detected from 10 billion light-years away. “This…
Teraco’s recently completed JB5 data centre, photographed at dusk at the company’s Isando campus South Africa’s data centre capacity has been growing steadily over the years as demand for cloud computing and storage services has expanded. Seen as a window into the African continent, the South African industry attracts investment from global entities looking to…
ITWeb editor-in-chief Adrian Hinchcliffe presenting the findings of the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey 2025. Cyber security and compliance have emerged as the leading priorities for South African chief information officers (CIOs) in 2025. This is according to findings from the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey 2025, which gathered insights from 115 CIOs across various industries, highlighting…
Justin RowlattClimate Editor AFP via Getty Images Renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity in the first half of this year – a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember. Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was…
Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter, Singapore and Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Metropolitan Police Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, was convicted on Monday A Chinese national has been convicted following an international fraud investigation which resulted in what’s believed to be the single largest cryptocurrency seizure in the world. The Metropolitan Police says it recovered 61,000 bitcoin…
Dado Ruvic/Reuters Videogame giant Electronic Arts will be taken private in a record-breaking US$55-billion leveraged buyout by a consortium consisting of private equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, the company said Monday. The deal for the maker of Battlefield underscores how deep-pocketed investors are betting on the…
