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Blue Label Telecoms, which is seeking control of Cell C, plans to bring in a new strategic investor into the mobile operator.
Load shedding is expected to stay at elevated levels for the foreseeable future as Eskom battles breakdowns.
Naspers-owned Prosus has launched an aggregated generative AI tool called PlusOne across its portfolio of companies.
Shoprite Group launched its first cashless store in Durbanville, Cape Town late last month, in what may be the start of a trend.
Repairs to the cable Ace, one of three subsea systems that broke off Africa’s western coastline, are under way.
Long-serving MultiChoice Group director Imtiaz Patel will step down as chairman of the board in March.
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There were more than 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author or co-author – and the number is rising daily.
Microsoft has struck a 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty and other Activision games to Nvidia’s gaming platform if it’s allowed by regulators to buy Activision.
President Xi Jinping said China must resolve issues in key technological fields from the bottom up as the country deals with US export controls.
Macro events suggest bitcoin and other tokens should be beating a hasty retreat. Instead, they’re extending their 2023 rebound.
Beijing’s increasing influence in constructing and repairing the undersea cables that move virtually all the information on the Internet is a worry for the US.
Access-based consumption has obscured the rise of a range of fragmented ownership configurations in the digital realm that provide the customer with an illusion of ownership while restricting their ownership rights.