Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.
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Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
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Uber Technologies is in talks to purchase food delivery service Postmates for about US$2.6-billion, Dow Jones reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
MTN has rolled out a new feature of its Mobile Money service that will allow South African consumers to make purchases online using their MoMo wallets – no bank card required.
Thousands of people have been testing positive for Covid-19 daily since the relaxation of the hard lockdown to make room for economic activity.
A small LED torch that emits deep red light and costs just R260 to make could help improve declining eyesight, scientists have said.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni said national treasury has no plans to boost income tax, corporate tax or VAT even as the coronavirus decimates the nation’s finances.
Zimbabwe on Friday suspended trade on the stock exchange and mobile phone-based payments to address what President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government called “criminality and economic sabotage”.
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Dropbox has introduced a new cloud-based file-sharing option for individual business users and a new feature for marketing and creative workers to share projects, seeking to lure more paying customers ahead of an expected public share
Lazarus, a hacking group linked to North Korea, may have been behind this month’s theft of US$60m from Taiwan’s Far Eastern International Bank, according to BAE Systems researchers. The cyberattack, in which malware was used
Netflix recently warned price increases are coming for many subscribers in the US and other countries (although reportedly not in South Africa). It’s happening because Netflix has been spending a small fortune to supply homes with entertainment
Barclays will need to defend its advantages in the payments business from encroachment by technology companies including Amazon.com and Apple, according to CEO Jes Staley. “There are some tectonic shifts going on, driven
When we meet for coffee at Hyde Park, north of Johannesburg, former Maverick editor and publisher Branko Brkic can’t wait to open up his IBM ThinkPad to…
Unless the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is able to issue new regulations to manage SA’s switch from analogue to digital terrestrial television by mid-October, the…
