Leila Fourie will stand in for chairman Saki Macozoma for nine months before taking a seat of her own.
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Dis-Chem is rebuilding its app and replacing the e-commerce platform underneath it, targeting an early 2027 launch.
About 12 000 Shoprite employees are on generative AI tools, and the group has built its own gateway to keep the model bills down.
Hilton Musk tells Watts & Wheels that Rubicon is aiming for a thousand chargers within five years, focused on urban hubs.
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Eskom said on Wednesday that the power outlook remained highly uncertain, with unplanned outages often varying by 2GW in one week.
For the third day in the row, Eskom will cut the power during the evening peak, with stage-2 load shedding to take place from 5pm to 10pm on Wednesday.
MTN has linked the remuneration of its senior executives with the group’s environmental, social and governance targets.
The South African start-up Quro Medical is pioneering hospital-level monitoring of patients, but in their own homes, using advanced technologies it has developed in-house.
The Post Office will no longer pay beneficiaries of the social relief of distress R350 grant at its branches, blaming long queues for the decision.
The Wireless Access Providers Association has called on government to free up the 6GHz band, claiming that doing so could drive a wave of economic growth.
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When Walmart paid $16-billion for control of India’s e-commerce pioneer Flipkart Online Services from investors, including Naspers, last year, the US retail giant got a little-noticed digital payments subsidiary as part of the deal.
German economics minister Peter Altmaier plans to build up a German cloud service to allow European companies to store data independent of Asian or US rivals such as Amazon.com.
IBM closed its $34-billion purchase of Red Hat, sealing the world’s second largest technology deal ever and setting up the US technology company on a path to try and compete with top software purveyors in the cloud.
Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans to go public and become the world’s first listed space-tourism venture, the Wall Street Journal reported.
International credit agency Moody’s this week cut its ratings outlook for JSE-listed fixed-line telecommunications operator Telkom. This followed the agency’s downgrading of SA’s government bond rating last week. The move is likely to make it more difficult for Telkom to raise debt, at least at interest rates it would
Cell C will also switch on a fourth-generation (4G) mobile network using long-term evolution (LTE) technology in 2012, but the company is not saying where this network will be built or how many towers will be supported. CEO Alan Knott-Craig says
