Vodacom Group CEO Joosub has put a price on the Egyptian venture and says South Africa and Kenya are likely to follow.
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Jacques du Toit steps down after more than a decade in charge, as Vox and Frogfoot close in on their R14.4-billion funding deal.
US senator Kevin Cramer says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang must go as reports link his affair to China chip sales.
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub says AST SpaceMobile is the likely partner, and that the service won’t work on 2G and 3G phones.
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Unlawful industrial action at Eskom’s power stations means South Africans will have to continue to endure stage-4 load shedding until at least Wednesday night.
Takealot Group, which includes South Africa’s biggest e-retailer, Takealot.com, increased revenue by 27% in the past year, and remained near breakeven during the period.
Prosus and Naspers plan to sell down the massive 28.9% stake Prosus holds in Chinese Internet giant Tencent.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has blamed the recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of the Eastern Cape for a delay in the roll-out of digital set-top boxes.
Vumacam has unveiled a R60-million plan to densify its Johannesburg coverage and to work with partners to fight the growing scourge of crime in the city.
Eskom will implement severe load shedding from 11am on Friday to conserve its emergency reserves as some of its workers, striking illegally, blockade its power stations.
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Dell Technologies, HP, Intel and Microsoft are joining forces to oppose US President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on laptop computers and tablets among $300-billion in Chinese goods targeted for duties.
Apple has urged the Trump administration not to proceed with tariffs of as much as 25% on a new slate of products imported from China, saying it would reduce the company’s contribution to the US economy.
Facebook’s plans to create a new cryptocurrency that can be used for everything from commerce to money transfers is facing pushback from angry US lawmakers.
Nokia and Ericsson have recently wrested notable long-term deals from Huawei to build 5G wireless networks, with analysts say more could come their way as Huawei grapples with a US export ban.
With more than 16m tracks, 2m albums and 650 000 artists, Simfy is a fully fledged music streaming service that stacks up incredibly well against rivals Spotify, Rhapsody and Rdio. From next week it’s available in SA – without the need for a foreign credit card, a virtual private network, or any of the other digital
The department of science & technology has had a tax incentive programme in place since 2007. It’s meant to encourage research and development (R&D), but few companies are aware of it and are losing billions of rand in tax rebates in the process. Dov Paluch, MD of Catalyst Solutions, a company
