Merchant West’s Shane van der Merwe For most of business history, buying technology meant owning it. Capital was set aside, servers and laptops were hauled into the building alongside the software licences, and the business then sweated those assets for as long as it practically could. In the age of AI, that logic is starting…
Fox Corp is buying Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about US$22-billion in a bet that pairing its sports and news programming with a top TV streaming platform will strengthen its position as audiences shift online. The deal, announced on Monday, gives the cable TV-reliant Fox direct access to Roku’s large installed base of…
GoPro has announced a significant restructuring plan that will see the company reduce its global workforce by 23% by the end of 2026. The move comes as the action-camera pioneer seeks to stabilize its finances and reclaim market share in an increasingly crowded hardware landscape. Read: ShopriteX debuts Pixie, an AI assistant for Sixty60 According…
Gail Holt, Managing Director, Hardware Distribution. For ICT resellers and network operators, choosing the right distribution partner is one of the most important strategic decisions they can make. The right distributor doesn’t just move products – it delivers technical knowledge, reliable support, trusted relationships and consistent availability in an industry defined by rapid change and…
Gail Holt, Managing Director, Hardware Distribution. For ICT resellers and network operators, choosing the right distribution partner is one of the most important strategic decisions they can make. The right distributor doesn’t just move products – it delivers technical knowledge, reliable support, trusted relationships and consistent availability in an industry defined by rapid change and…
Image: NewSpace Systems Somerset West-based spacecraft component maker NewSpace Systems has opened a 5 200sq m manufacturing facility that it claims is the largest commercial space hardware manufacturing plant in Africa. The purpose-built facility includes a 1 260sq m cleanroom and a 120sq m engineering lab, both designed from the ground up for space manufacturing. Capabilities include…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Shelby Tauber/Reuters OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia’s latest AI chips, and it has sought alternatives since last year, eight sources familiar with the matter said. The news potentially complicates the relationship between the two highest-profile players in the AI boom. The ChatGPT maker’s shift in strategy, the details of…
An LG Cloid robot stands on stage during an LG Electronics news conference at CES 2026. Steve Marcus/Reuters Just four years after the launch of ChatGPT, the chatbot that brought artificial intelligence into the mainstream, and it seemed like almost every exhibitor at the CES show in Las Vegas this week was touting an AI-powered…
Jill Blaauw, Mami Mthimkhulu and Dakalo Ndangani from the Hardware Distribution sales team. Hardware Distribution, an official distributor of ProLabs solutions across Africa, successfully showcased the latest in high-performance data centre and AI interconnect technology at the Africa Tech Festival, held in Cape Town from 11-13 November. The company highlighted ProLabs’ advanced 100G optics and…
Three provincial departments have issued advertisements that will be of interest to the ICT industry. Last week’s celebration of Heritage Day saw activity on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal slowing and turning to less substantial requirements. However, three of the country’s provincial departments came to the party with advertisements that will pique the ICT industry’s interest….
