Amid sweeping layoffs, Netflix has replaced the content chief whose tenure included Squid Game and Bridgerton.
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The Reserve Bank wants all of South Africa’s ATMs white-labelled, with free transactions below a threshold, starting with a pilot in January.
Apple’s first foldable iPhone carries a steeper local premium than its new HomeView, HomePod mini 2 and Apple TV 4K.
South Africa fares better than most of the continent, according to the operators’ lobby group.
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MultiChoice Group, now owned by Canal+, is ramping up its turnaround strategy in an effort to claw back market share.
The Competition Commission has alleged that the JSE’s conduct has hampered the ability of rival exchange A2X to compete.
Teraco has completed a major expansion of its CT2 hyperscale data centre in Cape Town.
Vodacom is still awaiting final approval for its acquisition of a 30% co-controlling stake in fibre operator Maziv.
Vodacom’s financial services business is becoming a much bigger contributor to group revenue.
Telkom expects to more than double its headline earnings per share in the six months to end-September 2025.
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Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo announced she was quitting X, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that was “destroying our democracies”.
China’s Huawei said it will move core technologies and resources in its smart car unit to a new joint company.
If Huawei and Xiaomi can pull it off, Apple will surely feel emboldened to take a crack at making its own electric car.
Lithium has extended almost monthlong run of declines, with expectations the rout in the EV battery metal is far from over.
Big Internet companies have long been the target of complaints that they don’t pay enough in taxes. Fed up, more countries are rolling out plans to hit the likes of Facebook and Google with a “digital tax”.
The Trump administration has fired multiple salvos against Huawei since the start of a campaign to derail China’s technological ascendancy. The latest blow threatens to cripple the country’s tech champion.
