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Marc Jury, CEO of MultiChoice South Africa and Showmax, has resigned. He will leave the group in March.
A group of investors led by Harith General Partners has agreed to buy out a fund that owns a stake in Vumatel parent CIVH.
Naspers and Prosus companies such as iFood and OLX are sharing AI expertise for business growth.
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Telkom expects to report an improvement of about 200% in full-year normalised headline earnings per share.
TymeBank is raising $150-million to build scale as it prepares for an initial public offering, its CEO said.
Average monthly capacity additions from February to April dropped to 26MW from 97MW a year ago.
Apple has become the first brand to cross $1-trillion in brand value, Kantar’s BrandZ has found.
Industry lobby group ACT has urged Icasa to practice “regulatory forbearance” to ease the impact of load shedding.
Global markets are on tenterhooks ahead of a US Federal Reserve interest rate decision and key US inflation figures.
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This week will mark the culmination of a yearslong push to launch ETFs backed by bitcoin in the US.
TDK is fielding surging inquiries into a new line-up of smartphone batteries.
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon XR2+ chip designed for virtual and mixed reality headsets.
Generative AI will be on full display as gadget makers race to find consumer uses for the technology.
There are more than 10 effective Covid-19 vaccines in use around the world, so it’s easy to forget those still in development. That’s a mistake.
While clearly useful, Apple’s new AirTags can also potentially be misused. Concerns have been raised they might facilitate stalking, for example.