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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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Tesla’s reveal of the Cybercab, a robo-taxi designed as a sporty coupe, has flummoxed investors and analysts.
Standard Bank spends more than R1-billion/year keeping its systems safe from attackers.
South Africa has recorded the 200th day of constant electricity supply since Eskom halted load shedding in March.
SpaceX has returned Starship’s towering first stage booster back to its Texas launch pad for the first time.
Day two of an epic EV road trip across South Africa was even more eventful than the drama-filled first day.
The South African National Space Agency said a coronal mass ejection is impacting Earth this week.
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Taiwan should pay the US for its defence, US presidential candidate Donald Trump said, sending shares of TSMC down.
The move is likely to advance China’s technological ambitions even as the US tries to halt its rise.
Kaspersky Lab will gradually wind down its US operations from 20 July, the Russian antivirus software maker said.
JD Vance has openly praised the work of Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan.
Some African governments are spending vast sums on mass surveillance of their own citizens.
Zambia is one of the cheapest countries for Starlink satellite internet services in the world; the US is most expensive.