Shoprite couldn’t have planned the Covid-19 pandemic, but what it did to capitalise on it is the real story.
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VPN downloads have jumped 14-fold in Russia, and even loyal officials now juggle phones to stay private.
Personal security for CEO Shameel Joosub cost Vodacom about R7.7-million in the 2026 financial year.
The JSE-listed telecommunications group’s annual report, published on Friday, gives no clue as to what it paid Nkosana Makate.
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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.
Peach Payments tracked a Black Friday-linked transaction worth R1.09-million as consumers opened their wallets and spent big.
FNB’s banking app has gone down at the worst possible time: on Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky will leave the company on 3 June, and will be replaced by Matt Garman.
The US has pressed China and Russia to ensure that only humans would make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons.
Apple has closed in on an agreement with OpenAI to use the start-up’s technology on the iPhone.
Apple will deliver some of its upcoming AI features this year via data centres equipped with its own in-house processors.
Positive environmental news is rare. All the more reason to cheer an effort that might see wealthy nations help South Africa curb its coal addiction.
The cryptocurrency crowd has wasted no time in dancing on the grave of China’s “FUD” (Internet speak for fear, uncertainty and doubt). By Lionel Laurent.
