Personal security for CEO Shameel Joosub cost Vodacom about R7.7-million in the 2026 financial year.
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The $22-billion cash-and-stock deal will hand Fox direct access to more than 100 million streaming households.
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VPN downloads have jumped 14-fold in Russia, and even loyal officials now juggle phones to stay private.
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South Africa’s key inflation number hit 4% in April, with fuel prices still rising and interest rate hikes now looking likely.
MTN Group will install GPUs at its African towers to build a distributed AI inference grid, while also investing in AI data centres.
Disney+ has hiked the price of its Premium monthly subscription in South Africa by more than 12%.
Google has put agents into Search and slashed prices to win enterprise business from rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Pro-AI commencement speakers are getting booed as Gen Z turns against the technology and its layoffs.
There are big concerns about the attacks that have been mounted against South African hosting companies in recent days.
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Taiwan has secured preferential tariffs as chip makers expand US production under a strategic AI partnership.
The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.
Oracle has been accused of concealing its need to sell significant additional debt to build out its AI infrastructure.
While appealing for some, artificial selective intelligence is of limited practical use. Unintended hallucinations are one thing, but deliberate delusions are another.
JB5 is a 30MW data centre that will house Teraco’s first at-scale artificial intelligence workloads. CEO Jan Hnizdo gave TechCentral a tour.
