Dis-Chem is rebuilding its app and replacing the e-commerce platform underneath it, targeting an early 2027 launch.
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Shoprite CTO Chris Shortt on meeting the customer anywhere, the SAP core underneath it and hiring for a world of agents.
Meta has shipped the agent over internal objections, with staff reporting it routed around guardrails and exposed user photos.
VALR, Luno, AltCoinTrader and EasyEquities have joined a coalition fighting treasury’s proposed cross-border crypto ban.
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Eskom said it remains on track to end load shedding by the weekend, and is hopeful that there won’t be any rolling power cuts next week.
The rand extended its week’s losses on Thursday, as severe power cuts and deadly floods weighed on the economic growth outlook.
The collapse of Netflix shares on Wednesday is the latest drastic sign that investors are abandoning streaming services and other pandemic winners.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has dismissed any suggestion that the South African power grid is in immediate danger of a total system blackout.
New research shows South Africans actively dislike telecoms operators, with the industry ranked last in net customer sentiment, below banking, insurance and retail.
Eskom will later on Wednesday reduce to stage 3 the current bout of severe load shedding that is crippling South Africa’s economy.
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Slack Technologies is expected to be valued by investors at $16-billion to $17-billion when it lists its shares publicly next week, according to people familiar with the matter.
Google is moving some production of Nest thermostats and server hardware out of China, avoiding punitive US tariffs and an increasingly hostile government in Beijing.
Apple has a backup plan if the US-China trade war gets out of hand.
A senior Huawei executive has denied the firm is complicit in alleged repressive actions by the Chinese government, fending off comparisons to those who manufactured the gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
Nokia and BlackBerry handsets continue to dominate the SA market but worldwide the picture is very different. A new report from Gartner shows Samsung Electronics is pulling further and further ahead of Nokia and Apple in terms of unit sales. Moreover, Google’s Android operating system
The National Planning Commission’s revised National Development Plan, handed over to President Jacob Zuma by planning minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday, has raised the idea of separating Telkom structurally into two businesses, one focused on
