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After a rough workweek of load shedding – much of it at stage 6 – Eskom is promising an improved outlook for the week ahead.
Spar Group’s CIO, Mark Huxtable, has resigned from the South African food and liquor retailer.
Postbank’s legal dispute with payment switch provider has shed light on ongoing troubles in the payment of social grants.
MTN SuperFlex allows customers to choose how much data they want, coupled with unlimited minutes and SMSes, from R299.
The Competition Commission has gazetted the final terms of reference for an inquiry into media and digital platforms.
Mr D is turning into a full-service on-demand marketplace where users can shop for pet care, liquor, groceries and gifts.
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Binance’s stablecoin, Binance USD, has seen around $6-billion of outflows following a US regulatory crackdown on the company that issues the token.
A minority of Swedes said in a survey they’d used cash in the previous 30 days. The direction of travel is the same everywhere.
US payment giants Visa and Mastercard are slamming the brakes on plans to forge new partnerships with crypto firms, sources said.
Microsoft has started adding its recently upgraded Bing search engine to its Windows computer software.
A swathe of the world is adopting China’s vision for a tightly controlled Internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing that would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago.
Naspers, the most valuable company on the JSE, will prioritise investments in classifieds, financial technology and food — activities that it could possibly hive off with separate share listings in the right circumstances.