A merger of Paymenow and PayCurve will create a 100-strong fintech serving 750 000 employees in four countries.
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TrendAI’s Zaheer Ebrahim says South Africa’s patching problem is about to be compounded by agentic AI.
South Africa’s AI policy will be rewritten. The threat won’t wait, writes Palo Alto Networks’ Justin Lee.
South Africa’s PMI hit a near four-year high in April, though analysts have warned that the lift may prove temporary.
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Financial support is very welcome but regulatory intervention is needed to deal sustainably with market failure.
Huawei has launched the Mate 70 series, the first smartphones from the company that don’t run Android.
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In an effort to get consumers off legacy 2G and 3G devices, MTN is launching an own-branded 5G smartphone.
MTN South Africa, China Telecom and Huawei will collaborate on 5G, cloud, AI and business solutions.
Shoprite Holdings has completed a project to upgrade nearly 30 000 point-of-sale terminals across South Africa.
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Bitcoin renewed its climb towards $30 000 with risk appetite rising across global markets and concern about the fallout from Binance’s legal woes waning.
Investors withdrew US$1.6-billion of cryptocurrency from Binance since it was sued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday.
Alibaba Group is planning to split into six units and explore fundraisings or listings for most of them.
The UK plans to split responsibility for governing artificial intelligence between its regulators for human rights, health and safety, and competition.
As Facebook celebrates 15 years of virtual friendship this week, social science has compiled an expansive body of research that documents the public’s love-hate relationship with its best frenemy.
Predictions that autonomous cars powered by artificial intelligence will create a safer, more harmonious world may be off base.
