Capitec Connect, a Cell C-hosted MVNO, now has 1.5 million active users and is eyeing home broadband services next.
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A sluggish renewables roll-out and a looming 2029 supply gap may complicate the timing of Eskom’s plant closures.
South Africa’s largest retail bank by client numbers says the roll-out has moved well past the experimental phase.
In an aggressive move, Capitec Connect will now offer free on-net calls and consumer financing for smartphones.
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The publication, which continues to achieve record readership numbers, is being acquired by Publishared.
Lesotho earlier this week granted a 10-year licence to Starlink, a subsidiary of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
African funds raised $4-billion in 2024 — double the value from a year earlier — to invest in start-ups and infrastructure projects.
OpenAI rival Perplexity AI is ramping up efforts to get prime placement for its virtual assistant on smartphones.
Researchers have detected the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.
Parliamentarians are annoyed that the Post Office’s business rescue practitioners didn’t attend a scheduled meeting.
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Payments processor Visa has launched a $100-million venture fund for generative AI start-ups.
Meta could make users in the EU shell out as much as €10 for ad-free versions of Instagram or Facebook.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who helped pave the way for Covid-19 vaccines, have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, will probably join the Dutch tulips and dot-coms in the history of speculative follies.
Setting aside the global health implications, Apple and its suppliers may have got lucky with the timing of the coronavirus outbreak.
Every generation or so, money goes through an evolutionary shift, and 10 years from now the fiat currencies currently in use will be regarded as relics of a bygone age, much like the fax machine.
