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Marc Jury, CEO of MultiChoice South Africa and Showmax, has resigned. He will leave the group in March.
A group of investors led by Harith General Partners has agreed to buy out a fund that owns a stake in Vumatel parent CIVH.
Naspers and Prosus companies such as iFood and OLX are sharing AI expertise for business growth.
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Pirates are finding new ways to circumvent broadcasters’ security technologies. MultiChoice is not taking matters lying down.
Sentech, South Africa’s state-owned signal distribution operator, is in search of a new CEO.
Eskom will reduce load shedding to stage 1 from midday on Monday after further improvement in generation.
Interbank payments provider BankservAfrica has appointed Stephen Linnell as its new CEO, replacing Jan Pilbauer
South Africa has released a draft law that will facilitate the creation of a company to house Eskom, Transnet and other SOEs.
Bob van Dijk is stepping down as CEO of both Naspers and its European-listed spinoff Prosus with immediate effect.
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The move underscores an accelerating shift of manufacturing away from China as Washington-Beijing tensions grow.
Brazil’s central bank has approved Meta Platforms’ payments launch for small and medium-sized business.
An aggressive new US cybersecurity strategy seeks to shift the blame from companies that get hacked to software manufacturers and device makers.
There’s an area the Tesla and Twitter chief says the government should regulate now: artificial intelligence.
It’s the overriding question about foldable phones: can they survive all that, er, folding? The answer seems to be no.
Apple put its flagship product, the iPhone, ahead of distaste for the way Qualcomm does business in settling a bitter, two-year legal dispute with the chip maker.