Dimension Data was one of South Africa’s great business stories. It’s a terrible shame how its history is concluding.
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SpaceX is reportedly paying $8-billion for 800MHz spectrum to boost its Starlink Mobile service in the US.
Anthropic has added live data dashboards and animated explainers to Claude, alongside docs and slides.
The resignation came a day after TechCentral reported that Seacom had placed Mangale on special leave.
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Vehicle verification start-up FirstCheck says it finds odometer rollbacks daily, some of them on cars advertised as financeable.
OpenAI has denied Apple’s trade secret theft claims, calling the Apple OpenAI lawsuit a mess of the iPhone maker’s own making.
Eskom’s profit more than doubled to R30.3-billion, but electricity sales fell 6.2% and municipal arrears passed R111-billion.
Electricity theft and unrecognised municipal revenue together exceed the utility’s entire annual profit.
Eskom has confirmed R36.8-billion of irregular expenditure relating to prior years, restated outside the financial statements.
Revenue is growing again, but the bill for replacing US technology is showing up in Huawei’s margins.
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The EU has formally rejected a proposal from operators that big tech companies should help pay for infrastructure.
Taiwan has secured preferential tariffs as chip makers expand US production under a strategic AI partnership.
The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.
