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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Behind the marketing glitz of the iPhone 17 launch, another announcement may prove far more consequential.
PayShap Request allows for instant payments using a push notification to a customer’s banking app.
Shenzhen-based BYD claims the new entrant in an increasingly crowded market will be the “most affordable” EV in South Africa.
South African fintech start-up Float has raised R46-million to reshape how consumers use credit cards.
SAP has appointed Nazia Pillay as MD of its Southern African operation. She had been serving in the role in an interim basis.
Cool Ideas has launched a 5G fixed-wireless broadband service, offering up to 1TB of speedy access for R899/month.
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Sam Altman will not return as CEO of OpenAI despite efforts to bring him back, a report said.
Elon Musk has railed against “bogus” media reports accusing him of antisemitism as big advertiser ditch X.
SpaceX’s uncrewed spacecraft, Starship was presumed to have failed in space minutes after lifting off on Saturday.
Amazon is the driving force behind advocacy groups working to thwart Microsoft’s plan to become a major cloud computing contractor for governments.
Facebook’s leadership is yet again displaying a spectacular failure to take responsibility for the monster it created. By Cathy O’Neil.
In January, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative – removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits – by 2030. It’s a heck of a job. Meet the man who’s leading the charge.
