AI rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year, Meta said, aiming to head off a possible order from EU antitrust regulators.
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Increases range from 6% to 10% depending on the service, with uncapped LTE and 5G plans spared.
Geopolitics, rising infrastructure costs and growing incidents of cyber fraud are top of the GSMA’s agenda.
Apple retailer iStore has opened pre-orders for Apple’s new MacBook Neo at R11 999 for the 256GB model.
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The incident has resulted in “unauthorised access to personal information of some MTN customers in certain markets”.
A regional telecommunications lobby group is working to standardise fees for roaming between Sadc countries.
A blast of early winter weather has got the better of Eskom.
Sassa is introducing mandatory biometrics for social grant beneficiaries without an ID or passport from next month.
YouTube, which was launched 20 years ago this week with a simple, low-resolution video, has morphed into a media colossus.
Ambient Photonics is deploying technology to power what its CEO calls the “vast universe” of low-power electronics.
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Sony must face a mass lawsuit worth up to £6.3-billion over claims it abused its dominant position.
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao will admit violating US laws as part of a $4-billion criminal settlement.
Microsoft hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is not an ideal outcome for Altman or Microsoft.
OpenAI’s board of directors approached rival Anthropic’s CEO about merging the two AI start-ups, sources said.
After finessing regulators and stroking egos to get this deal done, Microsoft will rightfully expect a big discount if it buys TikTok. The size of that discount will prove CEO Satya Nadella’s worth.
As Covid-19 has frozen the international travel on which they once thrived, double-decker, four-engine planes like the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747 are more likely to be found in storage than soaring through the skies.
