Vodacom South Africa’s prepaid revenue accelerated in the second quarter, and its margin hit its highest level since FY2023.
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Government will publish its evidence-based case for 5.2GW of nuclear power at the end of November.
Home-Connect and Afrihost charge the same prices and apply the same fair-use limits on Comsol’s new network.
Vodacom has since secured waivers from its lenders, but its appeal against the ruling has yet to be heard.
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US fintech and Internet payments leader Stripe said on Thursday that it is acquiring Paystack, a Nigerian payments start-up, as it looks to grow its footprint across the African continent.
Uber Eats’ South African unit on Thursday expanded delivery offerings, launching an app-based over-the-counter medicines service as it seeks to gain market share in the fast-growing online shopping sector.
South Africa’s fifth mobile operator, Rain, has launched “unlimited 4G for phones”, offering uncapped on-device data for R379/month on a month-to-month contract.
Deal value in the cryptocurrency world surpassed the total from 2019 in the first six months of the year as tie-ups became less frequent but bigger, according to PwC.
Standard Bank Group is planning to scale up some of its operations and further digitise its systems to fend off fintech firms encroaching on its client base.
Telkom has approached the Competition Tribunal, seeking to have the spectrum arrangements between Vodacom and Rain declared a merger and therefore notifiable in terms of the Competition Act.
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Samsung Electronics has blamed a minor battery manufacturing flaw for prompting a global recall of its Galaxy Note7 smartphones and is seeking more time to investigate the cause behind its deepest crisis in
Visa, the world’s largest payments network, introduced a mobile phone application to enable cashless transactions in Kenya, where the majority of wireless payments are being done through the nation’s biggest
Samsung Electronics lost US$22bn of market value over two days as investors factor in a bigger hit to its bottom line from widening bans and warnings on its Note7 smartphones. Shares have plunged 11% since Friday, the biggest
For more than a week, Samsung’s shares survived reports of its exploding Galaxy Note7 smartphone, a worldwide recall, and news of the “heartbreaking” US$1bn bill. Yet calls by airlines and regulators for passengers to follow somewhat mundane
