Headline inflation slowed to 4.3% in July, ending four months of acceleration – and beating market expectations.
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Replying to a customer on WhatsApp will start costing business users money from October. Meta won’t confirm how much.
Crypto arbitrage firm Kastelo says every client watched a compulsory video and signed a mandate before any offshore trade.
Absa has said that 1 400 developers use AI coding tools while its chatbot fields 100 000 queries monthly.
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Yoco co-founders Lungisa Matshoba and Bradley Wattrus will take the leadership reins from Katlego Maphai.
Zero Carbon Charge has firmed up R100-million in new funding as it prepares to roll out off-grid EV charging stations.
MTN Group is preparing a major push into artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Outa is seeking an order that Sanral has effectively abandoned its e-toll debt claims against thousands of motorists.
BYD on Tuesday unveiled South Africa’s new cheapest electric car, costing just R339 900 – and it’s not half bad.
Discovery Bank is betting on artificial intelligence, data and payments technology as it expands its customer base.
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Orange has decided to withdraw from the process to purchase an up to 45% stake in Ethiopian operator Ethio Telecom.
X could lose as much as $75-million in advertising revenue by the end of the year, the New York Times reported.
Battery prices are resuming a long-term trend of decline, following an unprecedented increase last year.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo announced she was quitting X, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that was “destroying our democracies”.
If you’re concerned about the pervasive role in daily life of technology companies such as Google, then its planned $2.1-billion acquisition of Fitbit is a worry.
It would be interesting to speculate how many people who, after reading the Prosus and Naspers results for the year to March, are thinking the same thing: would Warren Buffett invest in either company?
