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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The World Bank is the first key institution to cut its economic growth forecast for South Africa to below 1% for 2020 due to electricity supply concerns.
Twitter is adding another safety control to help curb abuse and harassment on its social network. Users will soon be able to limit the group of people that can reply to their tweets.
Eskom lost additional generation capacity on Wednesday night and said it would therefore implement state-2 rotational blackouts throughout Thursday and into Friday.
The energy minister’s reluctance to fast-track renewable power projects could prolong the electricity shortages, which have caused the economy to stagnate and sapped investor confidence.
Eskom, South Africa’s biggest polluter, said it will slash emissions of three major pollutants by 2035 while it asks for exemptions to incoming standards to avoid as much as R37-billion in expenditure.
Whether a planned reduction in rewards for mining bitcoin will boost prices or it’s already factored in is dominating discussions across mediums from Twitter to analyst reports.
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Samsung Electronics took out out full-page newspaper advertisements in the US to apologise for its fire-prone Galaxy Note7 phones, seeking to restore its battered reputation. The message from the world’s
Business software maker SAP introduced the most significant update to its database software in five years, which includes new tools for analysing the stream of data being created by smart sensors
An influence-peddling scandal shadowing Korean President Park Geun-hye is raising fresh questions about decades of cozy ties between the nation’s big conglomerates and those in power. Successive governments
Samsung Electronics plans to equip its next Galaxy S smartphones with a Siri-like digital assistant, seeking to make a comeback after the global debacle that precipitated the death of its flawed Note7 line-up
