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Pick n Pay’s asap! app is adding Penny, a Gemini-powered assistant that builds your basket by conversation.
Conversation versus replenishment: Enrico Ferigolli on Penny, Gemini and how Pick n Pay is taking on Sixty60.
Payments giant Visa has detailed how AI agents, richer tokens and blockchain settlement will reshape commerce.
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Blue Label Telecoms has unveiled long-awaited details of a planned recapitalisation of Cell C – a move aimed at dealing once and for all with the mobile operator’s crippling debt problem.
By 2030, every South African should have access to affordable broadband at home, offering generous amounts of data, a new government plan states.
Investors punished Chinese shares again on Tuesday, inflicting further collateral damage on South Africa’s Naspers and its European-listed spinoff, Prosus.
Investec is open an application programming interface to allow clients access to banking and transactional data and to craft individualised services.
Huawei South Africa has reached an out of court settlement with the department of employment & labour, which accused it of failing to comply with local hiring quotas.
Facebook parent Meta Platforms has been referred by the Competition Commission for prosecution for alleged “abuse of dominance”.
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Vodafone Group plans to carve out its phone towers into a separate unit and consider an initial public offering, as it seeks to sell substantial stakes in the business to lower its debt.
Google’s parent company reported a healthy rise in revenue as the technology giant published its latest financial results.
Facebook showed that its business can weather all kinds of regulatory scrutiny – as long as people keep flocking to Facebook.
Snapchat added 13 million daily active users in the last quarter, as the messaging app reported its latest financial results.
The divide between emerging and developed markets in terms of smartphone penetration is set to grow wider, new research suggests. Telecommunications equipment company Ericsson expects that by 2018, almost all handsets in Western Europe and North America will be smartphones
Attila Vitai, the newly appointed MD of Telkom’s mobile division, has arguably one of the toughest jobs in South Africa’s telecommunications industry. It’s his task to turn the country’s fourth mobile entrant into a viable and, eventually, a profitable enterprise in what has become a highly competitive
































