Meta’s pick of an Indian fintech founder signals the scale of the company’s payment ambitions for WhatsApp.
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Vodacom is deepening its relationship with Amazon as both chase a bigger share of household spending.
“RAMageddon” has reached Apple users, with DRAM prices nearly doubling as AI data centres soak up global supply.
IBM has unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-nanometre chip technology.
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Canal+ has announced sweeping changes to its African operations, just days after finalising its takeover of MultiChoice.
Television in three dimensions is a century-old idea whose time may never come.
New GX Capital’s clean-tech investment fund has secured $28-million in capital from Nedbank CIB.
Maski provides one-on-one tutoring to school-aged learners via an AI-powered WhatsApp chat interface.
Seacom has announced plans to build a massive new submarine fibre cable system connecting Africa, Asia and Europe.
After conquering load shedding, Eskom has said it is working to end load reduction within the next 12-18 months.
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Toyota, the world’s top-selling car maker, raised its profit forecast for the current year to ¥4.9-trillion.
KoBold Metals, a Bill Gates-backed mining start-up, has used AI to uncover a huge copper deposit in Zambia.
Yandex has struck a $5.2-billion cash-and-share deal to sell all its assets in Russia.
A multinational company lost R492-million after scammers fooled employees with a fake group video call.
More big investors are speculating that bitcoin will gain wider acceptance and shake up the financial world, maybe by filling the role of gold as a hedge against inflation better than gold can.
The decision by Amazon.com’s cloud unit to pull the plug on social media service Parler highlighted the company’s often-overlooked role powering much of the Internet.
