Steven Levy on why Microsoft, at 50, is still a force to be reckoned with. This and more in today’s Bookmarks.
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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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Lobby group Outa has accused Eskom of relying on price increases instead of improving operational efficiencies.
South Africa’s private sector maintained its growth trajectory in October, bolstered by a decline in costs and selling prices.
Microsoft has reached $1-million giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing. This and more in today’s Bookmarks.
Some urban centres in Africa are already at capacity, Elon Musk said on Monday.
Altron has reported a more than doubling in its operating profit in the six months to end-August.
The Competition Tribunal’s decision to block a merger between Vodacom and Maziv will likely derail the sector’s M&A plans.
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Christophe Fouquet, speaking in New York, said he expects push-back against US-led restrictions to grow.
SpaceX has cautioned employees not to travel to Brazil amid an escalating feud between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge.
Safe Superintelligence, founded by Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1-billion in funding to build a safe and powerful AI system.
Intel was one of the first two technology companies to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the dot-com boom.
Still, OpenAI’s unveiling of GPT-4o disappointed enthusiasts who hoped GPT-5’s arrival was imminent.
Google showed off a beefed-up Gemini AI chatbot and improvements to its prized search engine.