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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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Media organisations have voiced their concern at the abrupt cancellation of public hearings on the contentious SABC Bill.
Pro-Russian X accounts are being used to rally support for Jacob Zuma’s MK Party, research has found.
The Electricity Regulations Amendment Bill takes South Africa closer to a liberalised electricity market, experts say.
China has a unique opportunity to drive forward an energy revolution in Africa, research from Boston University showed.
South Africa has come up with a novel strategy to protect and expand its already abundant wildlife herds.
The gantries used to toll road users will be disconnected from the e-tolls network from 11.59pm on 11 April 2024.
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Vodafone Group said it has had made its first 4G calls using Open RAN as it invests in chipsets with Intel.
Microsoft is reportedly aiming to close its $69-billion deal for Activision Blizzard on 13 October.
Amazon’s first pair of prototype satellites for its planned Kuiper internet network were launched into space on Friday.
DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple failed because the iPhone maker was reluctant to give up Google’s billions.
Six weeks after announcing to the world it was in talks to buy TikTok, Microsoft comes out to tell us it didn’t get the gig. CEO Satya Nadella dodged a bullet. Now the gun is aimed directly at Oracle and its chairman, Larry Ellison.
Apple CEO Tim Cook and his top deputies are focusing greater attention on developing a new generation of leaders to eventually run some of the iPhone maker’s most important divisions.