A few nights ago, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun announced on Twitter that he had paid half-a-million dollars for a picture of a rock with laser eyes. It wasn’t even a good picture of a rock.
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Telkom has finally launched support for embedded Sims, or eSims, on smartphones connected to its network.
OPay, an Africa-focused digital payment start-up founded by a Chinese entrepreneur, has secured $400-million in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing it at $2-billion.
Google’s new submarine cable system, Equiano, which will connect Africa and Europe, will make its first landfall later this week – on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.
Samsung Group will invest â‚©240-trillion (R3.1-trillion) in the next three years to expand its footprint in biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics.
DiDi Global has suspended plans to expand in Europe partly because of concerns over how the Chinese ride-hailing company handles passenger data, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Facebook is letting some users make voice and video calls within its main app on a trial basis, aiming to make it easier to place calls without opening its standalone Messenger app.
In a virtual strategy update event on Friday, Standard Bank Group revealed that it plans to cut head office and branch space by as much as a quarter by 2025.
It was only a few weeks ago that some strategists were eyeing a possible drop to $20 000 for bitcoin, months after it had hit an all-time high near $65 000 in April. Now it’s back above $50 000. What happened?
It sounds implausible: a technology that could unleash nearly unlimited clean energy. Yet sustainable nuclear fusion, long hypothesised, took a step closer to reality this month.