Online turnover rose 35.4% in the half, while turnover across the Pick n Pay business was flat.
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Vodacom’s summer bundles price smartphone data at R3.53/GB, but half of each bundle only works between midnight and 5am.
Paris Mashile led Icasa’s fight to cut mobile termination rates, and admitted when the regulator fell short.
Ekurhuleni won ministerial approval this month to buy 2.4GW of electricity from independent power producers.
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Discovery Bank is adding the ability for its clients to trade in cryptocurrencies directly in its banking app.
For the second time in four months, Spotify is hiking prices in South Africa – this time, though, there’s more value on offer.
The rand and South African shares and bonds extended their rally on Thursday as investors cheered signs of fiscal discipline.
Cell C is heading to the public market with a proposed JSE listing that pegs the offer price between R29.50 and R35.50/share.
Google has committed R688-million to support South Africa’s under-pressure media industry.
The ZAR Supercoin stablecoin is “purpose-built” for South Africa and is backed by the same company that owns Betway.
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Chinese smartphone maker Honor has begun preparations for an initial public offering.
OpenAI has reached an agreement for Sam Altman to return as CEO days after his ouster.
Broadcom has finally closed its $69-billion acquisition of VMware after receiving regulatory approval in China.
Sonos is planning a long-awaited push into headphones and also plans to release a television set-top box.
Reality has intervened and thrown roadblocks in front of Facebook’s spectacular success. Its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, now faces an important choice.
A quiet and deadly health catastrophe is brewing in Africa. Not from the coronavirus, but from age-old diseases that have overnight taken a back seat to the pandemic.
