Jumia Technologies raised $196-million in an initial public offering in New York, as the Africa-focused online retailer looks to boost its profile and expand an ever-growing customer base.
Author: Agency Staff
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed eight new board members to fill the vacancies on the board of the SABC with immediate effect.
Disney has raised the curtain on a hotly anticipated video streaming service.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its massive Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday for Saudi Arabia’s Arabsat, the rocket’s first mission for a paying customer.
Uber Technologies has spent more than US$1-billion on autonomous vehicle technology to compete with giants such as Alphabet, Apple and General Motors.
Vodacom Group’s Tanzanian unit said it paid a settlement of 5.3-billion shillings (about R32.2-million) for the release of five employees charged with depriving the government of revenue.
London metropolitan police have arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the Republic of Ecuador decided to withdraw his diplomatic asylum, according to an e-mailed statement.
MTN Group was awarded additional broadband spectrum in Nigeria related to its 2015 acquisition of Visafone Communications following a lengthy regulatory battle.
Facebook is rolling out a slew of new and expanded ways to rein in the spread of misinformation across its websites and apps, amid heightened global scrutiny of social networks’ actions to remove false and violent content.
Google became the world’s most profitable Internet company on the back of search advertising. Now, it’s turning another popular Web service into a major cash machine.