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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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The Association for Comms & Technology has warned government against rushing operators into switching off legacy networks.
V2G charging lets EV owners charge at overnight off-peak rates then sell power back to grids at a profit during peak hours.
Telkom shareholders will soon vote on a plan to sell the group’s towers and masts to a consortium led by private equity firm Actis.
Elon Musk’s underlings at Tesla are accustomed to chaos. But even by Tesla standards, this year has been unruly.
Call them the home energy nerds. They represent a niche for now, but they offer lessons for everyone, and for utilities.
The operator of the JSE has proposed easing listing requirements in a bid to encourage smaller companies to the bourse.
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Google’s cloud business crawled to its slowest in at least 11 quarters, even as sales at Microsoft’s cloud unit boomed.
A Chinese miner has been accused of violating Namibia’s ban on critical raw mineral exports.
Rising rates have made already stretched US Big Tech valuations look increasingly expensive.
Spotify reported quarterly monthly active users and subscribers ahead of expectations as it grew in all regions.
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump’s justice department filed a landmark lawsuit against Google. It could upend the business model of one of America’s most successful companies. Yet the rationale is far from clear.
The US government’s antitrust case against Google could face an uphill battle from a judiciary that may question whether a free search engine beloved by consumers has actually left them worse off.