Naspers and Prosus chairman Koos Bekker has sold shares in both companies worth about R2.5-billion over three trading days.
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Groupe Canal+ and Warner Bros Discovery have struck a last-minute agreement to keep channels like CNN on DStv.
The rand ended 2025 nearly 13% stronger against the US dollar, marking its biggest annual gain in 16 years.
Louis Gerstner, the former CEO and chairman of IBM, died on Saturday, aged 83.
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Expectations are again being created that a final decision on the future of e-tolls on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project is imminent. We’ve been here before.
Eskom has asked South Africans to cut back on their use of electricity as the South African Weather Service forecasts of the arrival of a powerful winter weather system this week.
Naspers-controlled consumer Internet investment group Prosus is leading an R18.2-billion funding round in Indian food-delivery giant Swiggy. Japan’s SoftBank Group is a co-investor in the round.
Bitcoin has fallen below $30 000. The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now 54% below the high of $64 870 reached on 14 April.
CIVH, the Remgro-controlled company that owns Dark Fibre Africa and Vumatel, is now worth more than Telkom, the company that once enjoyed an absolute monopoly over telecommunications in South Africa.
Remgro said on Monday that it is participating in a the second tranche of a rights offer by CIVH, the parent of fibre telecommunications companies Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa, aimed at reducing debt.
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Microsoft’s cloud computing business fuelled quarterly sales and profit that topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by several new deals with large corporate clients.
SAP raised its operating profit outlook for the year, bolstered by strong growth in its cloud business, as the German software maker pushes ahead with a major restructuring.
John McAfee, the eccentric antivirus pioneer known for his brushes with the law, said he has spoken to bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and plans to reveal the person’s identity.
Samsung Electronics intends to invest the equivalent of about R1.7-trillion over the next decade or so to take on Intel and Qualcomm in the business of making advanced chip processors.
Justin Arenstein, 42, is an award-winning journalist, digital media strategist and media rights activist who believes the media’s role may become less one of reportage and more one of analysis as digital media grows and traditional media is forced to adapt or close shop. Key to the shift that Arenstein believes is
Six months after Lulama Mokhobo took over as the group CEO of the SABC there is little indication that the state broadcaster can turn around its moribund news offering while rival e.tv takes the gap to bag viewers. Although the figures do fluctuate because of many variables, e.tv’s 7pm news
