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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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Eskom board chairman Mteto Nyati has said the new load shedding structure by energy regulator Nersa is no cause for panic.
Solar can reduce load shedding significantly, but patchwork policies, differing tariffs and a lack of incentives are stalling growth.
PayShap is coming to MTN’s Mobile Money platform through a partnership with Investec and Electrum.
MultiChoice has announced Imtiaz Patel’s exit as chairman, just weeks after saying he would stay on in the role.
Capitec Bank spent 27% more on IT in its 2024 financial year, reaching R1.9-billion from R1.5-billion in 2023.
The dispute over taxes might seem niche, but in the case of Congo the stakes are enormous.
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The company has secured three customers for its chip contract manufacturing business, with a fourth coming soon.
Sundar Pichai will testify on Monday in the once-in-a generation antitrust fight over Google’s dominance of search.
Huawei saw a slight uptick in revenue in the first three quarters of 2023, with growth in its digital power and cloud businesses.
China has stepped up spending to replace Western-made technology with domestic alternatives.
Just as the US government starts looking to rein in, or even break up, big technology companies in the belief they have too much power, China is going in the opposite direction.
The cure for bad information is good information. If people are sometimes persuaded by the false, that’s a risk attendant upon the proper practice of democracy. By Stephen L Carter.