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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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City Power has warned it will impose “load reduction” on Johannesburg residents to “protect the grid from total collapse”.
An antitrust tribunal in Nigeria has fined MultiChoice and ordered a month of free viewing for its subscribers there.
Stellantis is considering expanding into the production of new-energy vehicles in South Africa, its local MD said.
Volkswagen’s top executive in South Africa said uncertainty about power supply is limiting its ability to expand.
The first tranche of severance packages for retrenched employees of the state-owned entity is being paid on Friday.
Bash, the online retail platform built by Superbalist co-founders Claude Hannan and Luke Jadeyekin for TFG, is proving to be a success for the retailer.
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Tesla delivered a record number of electric vehicles in the fourth quarter but lost its spot as the top EV maker.
Expectations of soft demand for Apple’s latest iPhone prompted analysts at Barclays to downgrade the stock.
Almost five out of six new cars sold in Norway last year were powered by battery only.
Global megacap companies posted solid gains in 2023, boosted by optimism over artificial intelligence.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space launch company, Blue Origin, has announced it will sell its first flights into microgravity to the highest bidder.
To meet the ever-growing demand for digital data storage, around 100 new hyperscale data centres are built every two years.