Naspers and its European spin-off, Prosus, expect full-year core headline earnings to jump by up to 28%.
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General Atlantic is backing Westcon-Comstor as investor and lender, freeing R7.1-billion for a planned special dividend.
Meta Platforms’ paid WhatsApp messaging tier adds stickers, themes and custom icons for R28.99/month.
Visa is readying South African banks for AI shopping agents, and its OpenAI deal adds further momentum.
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US President Donald Trump’s $100 000 H-1B visa fee threatens the tech industry, critics have warned.
Eskom said on Friday that South Africa’s power system is stable, with unplanned outages at an eight-year low.
Mustek has boosted its full-year earnings despite a 15% decline in revenue and a weak first-half performance.
Electric vehicles and charging infrastructure used in Northern Cape sites acquired via a new “EV-as-a-service” model.
Nvidia’s $5-billion Intel deal boosts the latter’s manufacturing prospects, leaving AMD strategically disadvantaged.
The four connectivity hubs will cater to the northern, eastern, southern and western regions of the continent.
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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.
The UK government will meet Post Office workers to discuss handing them ownership of the network.
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.
