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Online now accounts for more than a tenth of TFG Africa’s sales, and the store estate is shrinking.
Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production in mid-2027 to make room for its Cybercab robo-taxi.
AA CEO Bobby Ramagwede warns South Africa’s car manufacturing industry could be decimated within five years.
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Keabetswe Modimoeng, who stepped down last week from Icasa, said councillors should be appointed for a period of seven years, not the current four.
Rolling load shedding should come to an end by the end of this week as more power generation units come online.
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MTN Group has entered into discussions to acquire Telkom. The talks are at an early stage, the parties said, and might not result in a deal.
Keabetswe Modimoeng said MTN Group’s proposed acquisition of rival Telkom should be considered seriously by regulators.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is racing to make an announcement as soon as Sunday that could include a plan to ramp up investment by the private sector.
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The UK government is intervening in the $3.4-billion sale of satellite operator Inmarsat to a group of funds on national security grounds.
A flaw in Facebook’s Messenger Kids app meant children could have come into contact with people not approved by their parents, the social network has confirmed.
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.
Eskom has asked for a 16%/year increase in electricity prices for the next five years – an effective doubling in the price over the period. This will increase costs for mobile operators and data-centre providers, with costs eventually flowing through to consumers, industry players have warned. Vox Telecom
Cellular industry body, the GSM Association, says that by the end of the year it expects there will be 3,2bn mobile phone subscribers worldwide, a huge reduction in its previous estimates. The new numbers suggest the adoption of mobile technology is not nearly as widespread as first
