The entry of China’s Haier into South Africa looks set to sharpen competition in the local home appliance market.
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Strong growth in Egypt and the DRC offset weak South African prepaid performance to lift Vodacom’s quarterly revenue.
Xneelo has begun construction on a second data centre at Samrand in Gauteng.
A partnership between four financial institutions has led to the launch of an “institutional-grade” stablecoin pegged to the rand.
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Bitcoin fell below $30 000 for the first time in nearly five months as China’s latest crackdown on cryptocurrencies weighed.
Bitcoin’s slide towards $30 000 amid China’s continued cryptocurrency crackdown is stoking fears of a deeper sell-off, with one researcher warning a break lower could bring a world of pain.
The brain inflammation and impaired “brain circuitry” seen in people who die of Covid-19 look a lot like what doctors see in the brains of people who die of neurodegenerative conditions, researchers said.
It is now mandatory for local banks to make hand sanitisers available at all 30 000 ATMs in South Africa, but an industry body says this is going to be almost impossible to achieve.
Naspers-controlled Takealot group reported revenue growth of 55% in the last financial year despite a ban on unfettered e-commerce during the height of the hard lockdown in 2020.
Last week’s announcement by Sekunjalo’s African Equity Empowerment Investments that BT Group was not entitled to claim back the 30% stake in BT South Africa held by AEEI was a little puzzling.
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Huawei Technologies’ founder Ren Zhengfei said “there’s no way the US can crush us”, according to an interview he gave to the BBC.
A harpoon designed to spear through space junk and capture it has been tested in space for the first time.
When an Air New Zealand jet to Shanghai was forced to turn around earlier this month, it seemed a relatively innocuous event put down to misfiled paperwork.
New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday slammed Amazon.com’s decision to pull out of a second headquarters in the city as “an example of an abuse of corporate power” that hurts working people.
Convergence Partners chairman Andile Ngcaba hinted strongly on Tuesday that he wants to build an African version of Telehouse Europe, the carrier-neutral colocation facility based in London’s Docklands that serves as the main hub of Internet traffic in the UK. Speaking at an industry panel organised Vodacom subsidiary
MTN, Africa’s largest mobile network operator, is locked in around-the-clock talks with Iranian authorities about its 49% telecoms stake in Irancell. The Middle East country has become the target of sanctions by the US and the European Union for its nuclear ambitions. MTN has been playing a diplomatic tune in terms of its operations
