Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.
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Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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MTN Group is once again worth more than rival Vodacom Group after a surge in the former’s share price following publication of solid interim results last week.
Despite the current turmoil in Afghanistan, MTN Group continues to operate its mobile network in the war-torn Middle Eastern country, providing services to 6.3 million subscribers.
Chinese-owned Uber Technologies rival Didi Chuxing Technology – better known as DiDi – will be launched in Johannesburg and Pretoria next Monday, 23 August.
Mastercard is phasing out cards with magnetic stripes, more than six decades after the technology was first introduced, as consumers adopt chip- and tap-based payments in increasing numbers.
Facebook and some of the world’s largest telecommunications carriers, China Mobile and MTN Group, are set to build a wider-than-earlier-planned giant subsea cable in Africa.
A trading update for the first half of the year from Massmart on Friday spooked investors who had been banking on a stronger recovery. Game is at the centre of the problems.
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Apple has said it welcomes competition in face of accusations that it has an unfair advantage on its App Store.
Tech giants, including Apple, Google and WhatsApp, have urged the UK’s GCHQ to abandon a proposal that would allow it to eavesdrop on encrypted chat conversations.
The rare-earth minerals that China is threatening to withhold from the US as a trade war escalates are more present in consumer products and manufacturing than people might think.
Apple’s earnings could fall 26% in its 2020 financial year if China bans sales of the iPhone, according to Cowen, the latest firm to paint a dramatic picture of the technology giant’s risk.
Behind the legal storm raging over the recent awarding of a R10bn SA Social Services Agency (Sassa) contract, a far greater prize is at stake: the chance to load microloan and insurance products on to the R105bn the government pays in social grants monthly. Net1 UEPS, the New York-listed parent
Simfy Africa, the local version of a European music streaming service, was launched last month. Some see services like Simfy as a godsend for local labels and musicians, but industry players argue they’re not yet a genuine alternative revenue stream to album sales. Sony Music commercial director Russell Crawford
