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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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Ellies Electronics has received buyout offers from unnamed third parties that its CEO believes could save the company.
Transaction Capital’s WeBuyCars opened for trading on the JSE on Thursday, among the first of 10 expected listings this year.
One of the JSE’s longest-surviving technology companies is no more: Ellies Holdings will be wound up and shut down.
E-toll infrastructure in Gauteng will be repurposed for law enforcement and road safety initiatives.
Sanral expects motorists to pay up for their historic use of Gauteng’s e-tolled roads.
The co-founder of Netflix and the former CEO of Google have taken part in a funding round for solar irrigation start-up SunCulture.
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When bitcoin development company Lightning Labs first launched the Lightning Network in 2018, it was all the rage.
LinkedIn said on Monday it will lay off 668 employees across its engineering, talent and finance teams.
This will be the last holiday season for DVD sales at Best Buy in the US as consumers switch to streaming.
Ferrari has started to accept payment in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars.
Most people consistently use the same hand to do tasks that require skill and control such as writing or threading a needle. Science is still struggling to figure out why.
Donald Trump, Covid-19 and an increasingly truculent Xi Jinping means there is no such thing as certainty in the world of business and politics. Everyone needs insurance.