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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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National treasury paid nearly R1-billion to Oracle South Africa for the financial management system at the heart of the probe.
Telkom is hiking prices across many of its retail and small business products, including fibre and DSL internet services.
Mike Silber is joining MTN as group executive for regulatory affairs, effective 1 April.
Telecel Group has bought two West African units from MTN Group as it scales operations ahead of a future listing.
TechCentral has a look at the largest solar energy projects in South Africa and the technologies they employ.
Opposition parties’ fortunes will be boosted on election day if they offer credible and effective alternatives to load shedding.
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OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and has gone as far as evaluating a potential acquisition target, sources said.
Taiwan has opened an investigation into four companies reportedly conducting business with firms linked to Huawei in China.
Ofcom has asked the UK’s antitrust authority to investigate AWS and Microsoft’s dominance of the UK cloud market.
Sam Bankman-Fried lied to the world as he built FTX, prosecutors said on the first day of a historic fraud trial.
Microsoft’s two-tiered strategy that attempts to make next-generation console gaming more affordable misses the mark. The company seems to have forgotten the most important videogame industry lesson.
It’s being driven by payments from small businesses as well as remittances sent home from migrant workers, according to new data.