Payments giant Visa has detailed how AI agents, richer tokens and blockchain settlement will reshape commerce.
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Operators must warn subscribers twice before deactivating a dormant Sim under new Icasa numbering rules.
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South Africa’s civil aviation regulator grounded Comair’s planes indefinitely on Sunday over unresolved safety issues.
The auction of mobile broadband spectrum will continue into next week after already raising more than the R8-billion expected.
EOH Holdings is selling several more assets as it moves to deal with the gearing problem on its balance sheet. Its shares leapt higher on the news.
Net1 has been given the regulatory go-ahead for its acquisition of South African fintech company Connect Group in a deal worth R3.7-billion.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter held discussions with the World Bank as it explores options for transitioning to cleaner sources of energy.
The campaign to starve Russia of technology is an unprecedented experiment, one which could drive the country in the arms of China.
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Apple is negotiating to buy Intel’s struggling cellular modem unit, said a person familiar with the matter.
Microsoft has agreed to pay $25-million to settle US government investigations into alleged bribery by former employees in Hungary.
Uber Technologies’ path to profit is likely to be slowed by growing competition as a significant number of customers are willing to wait around for a cheaper ride, according to analysts at HSBC.
US President Donald Trump’s senior advisers have invited US technology companies to the White House to discuss a resumption of sales to blacklisted Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.
Because of its spending on upgraded towers and other infrastructure, Vodacom wouldn’t have to spend heavily on equipment if it were allocated more radio frequency spectrum in new bands, group CEO Shameel Joosub says. Due to spectrum
Telkom was losing R144/month or more on every fixed-line in service as recently as a couple of years ago and the fixed-line operator estimates that local-loop unbundling (LLU) could lob as much as R2,2bn/year off its revenue line if the regulatory intervention is introduced
