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.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa announced 10 changes to his cabinet, including the appointment of close political ally Enoch Godongwana as his new finance minister.
South Africa has a new minister and deputy minister of communications & digital technologies, with Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams redeployed to the small business development portfolio.
eMedia Investments, the holding company of e.tv, eNCA and Openview, has plunged headfirst into streaming, launching eVOD, a video-on-demand service, in partnership with MTN South Africa.
The Special Investigating Unit will lodge an investigation into allegations of corruption and maladministration involving tenders awarded to EOH by the department of water & sanitation.
Ethiopia’s revived plan to sell a second telecoms licence to international operators received an early setback as MTN Group isn’t likely to resubmit a bid, according to people familiar with the matter.
JSE-listed IT services group EOH Holdings plans a secondary listing on A2X Markets, with its shares to available to trade from Friday, 13 August.
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Top US corporations from chip makers to Google have frozen the supply of critical software and components to Huawei, complying with a Trump administration crackdown that threatens to choke off China’s largest technology company.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is in advanced talks to acquire US supercomputer maker Cray, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
John McAfee, the eccentric antivirus pioneer known for publicity stunts and brushes with the law, announced he must “go dark” on Twitter, where he frequently comments on cryptocurrencies.
The Trump administration is pulling out the big guns in its push to slow China’s rise, with potentially devastating consequences for the rest of the world.
The fight for what SA consumers’ television future will look like is hotting up. The broadcasting regulator’s new draft regulations for digital terrestrial television, the migration to which is already years behind schedule, came under fire this week at public hearings and could result in further delays. Nigeria, Namibia
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) wants to reassign large chunks of radio frequency spectrum for mobile and fixed-wireless telephony and broadband, a reading of its newly published draft national frequency migration plan shows. The draft plan proposes not only making
