VALR, Luno, AltCoinTrader and EasyEquities have joined a coalition fighting treasury’s proposed cross-border crypto ban.
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The banks no longer govern the payment system through a body of their own. A second, larger wave of change is already moving.
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.
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Eskom will later on Wednesday reduce to stage 3 the current bout of severe load shedding that is crippling South Africa’s economy.
Karpowership is expanding its generation capacity by 50% to tap global demand even as it struggles to get projects going in potentially its biggest market.
South Africa will remain on stage-4 load shedding for now as Eskom works to restore more generating units to the grid.
Google is investing in its first-ever Africa product development centre, in Nairobi, as it positions itself to serve a growing base of Internet users on the continent.
Losing customers for the first time in a decade, Netflix is throwing out all of its old rules.
The rand weakened the most in five months as rolling power cuts, flood damage and signs of a Covid comeback added to worries about the economic outlook.
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Mega-cap technology and Internet stocks rallied on Monday, extending a recent advance as concerns eased over global trade tensions.
The US’s fight against Huawei justifies Russia’s decision to build a “sovereign Internet” to protect its domestic network from external threats, according to Russian deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov.
China’s planned technology security management system could strengthen control on exports including high-end intellectual property, according to state media commentary.
A senior White House official is seeking to delay putting in place portions of a law that limits the US government’s business with China’s Huawei, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Mauritius-based DotConnectAfrica is laying claim to the .africa generic top-level domain (gTLD) for which SA’s ZA Central Registry is the African Union’s endorsed bidder. This is in spite of the fact that DotConnectAfrica inadvertently applied for the wrong domain, at a cost of US$185 000, and is unlikely to succeed in
Last week Republicans seized on news that David Plouffe, a senior advisor in the White House, had accepted $100 000 from a subsidiary of MTN for two speeches he gave in Nigeria shortly before joining the White House staff in 2010. “Today’s story raises serious questions about [US President] Barack Obama’s senior
