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TikTok chief Kevin Mayer quits company

Sci-tech Agency - 27 Aug 2020

Mayer's resignation comes days after TikTok filed a lawsuit challenging a crackdown by the US government over claims the wildly popular social media app can be used to spy on Americans.

Beware of Big Business bearing gifts

Opinion Ahmed Sule - 19 Jul 2020

Large corporates whose business has thrived because of inequalities, could be hijacking the anti-racist movement by offering money and not tangible changes

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Build infrastructure to support the fourth industrial revolution

Article Tshilidzi Marwala - 8 Apr 2020

Technology has the potential to solve many of the country’s social problems such as electricity production and the eradication of pit latrines

South Africa must have a stake in artificial intelligence technology

Analysis Tshilidzi Marwala - 6 Mar 2020

The country needs an institute that will be a conduit for AI knowledge to industry, society and government

The workplace today through the lens of augmented humanity

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Mar 2020

There is huge generational diversity in the workplace today

Microsoft’s culture of innovation

Article Jasmine Pillay - 6 Dec 2019

A rich and resilient internal culture creates an environment that embraces diversity and inspires constant learning

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YouTube comments disabled during US hate crime hearing

Article Agency - 10 Apr 2019

'Hateful comments' during congressional hearing on white nationalism prompts YouTube to disable comments section

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Microsoft co-founder, investor, philanthropist Paul Allen dead at 65

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Oct 2018

Allen died just two weeks after publicly revealing that non-Hodgkin's lymphoma he fought into remission nine years ago had returned

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‘Paving the Future with Technology — Innovation Beyond Gender and Generations’

Article Agency - 8 Aug 2018

In 2020, computer programming will become a compulsory subject in all Japanese elementary schools

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Tech companies are successfully disrupting terrorist social media activity

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Jun 2018

Companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to take down terrorist propaganda

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Tech’s not just for boys: Microsoft’s DigiGirlz expands career perceptions

Article Agency - 28 May 2018

Around 70 school pupils attended the event, which included speakers in what might not be considered conventional tech jobs

Connecting isiXhosa, isiZulu to the digital age

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Mar 2018

Software tools for South Africa’s Nguni languages may assist with redress and effective communication.

If we can’t trust Kaspersky, can we trust Microsoft?

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Oct 2017

An intelligence agency may still break into software companies to backdoor their software, and probably will.

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Microsoft to open two data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town

Article Caroline Vakil - 18 May 2017

The technology company will now reach 40 regions globally.

Symbolic wave of change hits the new Microsoft

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Jul 2015

After 30 years of profitable but distinctly uncool dominance, Microsoft is finally doing exciting work again.

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