The deal makes MTN the second major South African operator to lean on the Chinese fintech giant for its super-app ambitions.
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The Technology Innovation Agency sold its Kapa stake for $4.9-million months before Roche bought the biotech for $445-million.
Eskom Green is targeting up to 32GW by 2040, with the board insisting it will partner private developers, not compete with them.
Battery-electric sales jumped 96% year on year in the first quarter, yet they remain a sliver of the market.
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The increasing use of AI in content production is not good news for Cape Town’s film production sector.
Groupe Canal+ aims to use group synergies to deal with the ongoing subscriber losses afflicting MultiChoice.
Wise has secured conditional approval from the Reserve Bank, clearing the way for its launch in South Africa.
A close relationship to industry and an award-winning incubation lab have created a successful start-up ecosystem centred on Stellenbosch University.
Cell C’s share price moved sharply higher on its second day of trade on the JSE on Friday, closing 12.7% up at R31.
Eskom on Friday reported profit after tax of R24.3-billion for the six months to the end of September.
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Scarlett Johansson has accused OpenAI of creating a voice for ChatGPT that sounded “eerily similar” to hers.
Apple has launched an aggressive discounting campaign in China as it fights to retain market share against Huawei.
Investors, traders and mining executives have warned for years that the world faced a critical shortfall of copper.
Apple is developing a slimmer version of the iPhone that is likely to be launched by 2025, a report said.
Moya, an instant messaging and payments app developed in South Africa, has notched up 6.5 million monthly active users and now has market leader WhatsApp firmly in its sights.
The techno-anarchist pioneers of cryptocurrencies believed they were creating a new form of unregulated, decentralised money. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
