Business confidence has hit its best level since 2015 but the war in the Middle East is a major concern.
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Syria has launched an international tender for a new mobile network operator licence to replace MTN.
A Visa survey has found that 63% of respondents used AI tools for tasks including product research.
FNB has announced lower commission rates and a simplified pricing structure for its Speedpoint card payment terminals.
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Lesaka Technologies has agreed to buy the digital bank chaired by former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan for R1.1-billion.
The Competition Tribunal has found that Vodacom’s Maziv deal would have caused harm to competition and market innovation.
The Vera C Rubin Observatory, boasting the world’s largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos.
TymeBank is considering legal action to stop home affairs from implementing huge increases in the fees companies must pay to verify their clients’ identities.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has backed the communications minister’s plans for BEE reform in the ICT sector.
The AI message summary feature allows WhatsApp users to get summarised versions of all their unread messages.
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Toyota, the world’s top-selling car maker, raised its profit forecast for the current year to ¥4.9-trillion.
KoBold Metals, a Bill Gates-backed mining start-up, has used AI to uncover a huge copper deposit in Zambia.
Yandex has struck a $5.2-billion cash-and-share deal to sell all its assets in Russia.
A multinational company lost R492-million after scammers fooled employees with a fake group video call.
The Biden administration will soon have to settle a bitcoin fight it didn’t even start, and its decision could have far-reaching implications for the cryptocurrency industry.
Google and Facebook make a lot of noise about how their main services are free to use. And it’s true, they are. But what they don’t highlight is their role in making almost everything else we consume online more expensive.
