For a company that has been mired in negative headlines for months, just about the last thing Samsung Electronics needed was news its smart TVs could be used to spy on users. According to documents released by WikiLeaks, that is exactly what
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Iflix, a video streaming service with customers mostly in Southeast Asia, raised US$90m (about R1,2bn) in a round led by telecommunications giants Liberty Global and Kuwait-based Zain to take on Netflix and Naspers, which owns ShowMax, in Africa
MTN Group is gauging investor interest for its first sale of rand-denominated bonds in seven years as Africa’s largest mobile phone operator struggles to repatriate earnings from its Nigerian business. MTN is “approaching the market and we will see
South African welfare minister Bathabile Dlamini denied she was responsible for failing to ensure plans are in place to dispense welfare grants to more than 17m people when an existing disbursement contract with Net1
Central Intelligence Agency’s hackers have developed tools letting them break into devices from iPhones and Android phones to Samsung “smart” televisions to monitor conversations and messages, according to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, which specialises
The writers who craft songs for artists from Garth Brooks to Beyonce plan to tell a panel of US judges this week that the increasing popularity of music streaming services like Spotify will destroy their profession unless
Continued political instability that hurt investor confidence and saw South Africa’s economy expand at the slowest rate since 2009 last year could threaten a recovery in 2017, economists said. GDP expanded by 0,3% last
Online luxury retailer Yoox Net-a-Porter said it’s developing technology to allow well-to-do customers to buy products directly through WhatsApp as the e-commerce market for Prada and Versace goods
If all goes as planned, two tourists will crawl into a space capsule at the end of next year and blast off for a week-long trip to the moon and back. It’s the ultimate couple’s vacation, offered exclusively by
South Africa’s ruling party is at risk of further splits amid a battle for senior positions in the ANC, deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte said. There is intense jostling to replace President Jacob Zuma