Capitec Connect users now call each other for free. It’s the latest blow to a product category that once built empires.
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The Johannesburg-Durban N3 corridor will get its first off-grid, solar-powered EV charging stations within weeks.
AI subscriptions nearly doubled in 2025, with 43% of Discovery Bank Visa clients paying for access to chatbots.
Capitec CEO Graham Lee has revealed the bank is seeking early access to Anthropic’s Mythos as cyber risks escalate for banks.
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Absa Group’s IT spend for the six months to 30 June reached R8.2-billion as it ramped up spending on security and AI.
Market consolidation in South Africa’s telecoms sector is “long overdue”, MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has said.
Stricter and more widespread use of biometric authentication by mobile operators could help reduce the growing Sim-swap fraud menace in South Africa.
The South African internet pioneer has a new documentary film releasing next week on life in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
There’s only one thing standing in the way of Vodacom consummating its deal with fibre operator Maziv.
Toyota plans to introduce three fully electric models in South Africa in 2026, a senior executive has revealed.
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The Biden administration is in talks to award more than $10-billion in subsidies to Intel, a report said.
At the heart of the exodus is a scarcity of the dollars international businesses need to repatriate earnings.
Shares in Alphabet sank after a report that OpenAI is developing a web search product to rival Google.
Google has announced an initiative to provide artificial intelligence tools and investments to bolster online security.
He may not be the leader of the free world, but Pat Gelsinger has just put himself at the helm of the Great American Revival amid a technology cold war that the US is paranoid it will lose.
The online meetings designed to get things done could be the very things harming our productivity. And there’s evidence that using audio only might be more productive than an overload of screen meetings.
