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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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Jensen Huang said the future of AI will be services that can “reason”, but this will require the costs to come down first.
The Information Regulator will soon take aim at security checkpoints at the entrances to office parks and residential estates.
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The US may ask a judge to force Google to divest parts of its business, including Chrome and Android.
Capitec has said that despite signing up 1.3 million clients to its MVNO in just two years, it’s just getting started.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has claimed that millions of viewers were “at risk of being cut off”.
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Global shipments of PCs rose by 3% in the second quarter, helped by demand for AI-capable devices.
The Russian operation used fake social media accounts enhanced by AI to spread propaganda.
Microsoft intends to offer iPhones to its employees in China, citing the absence of Android services in the country.
Meta Platforms has worked with Vodafone Group to free up capacity on the latter’s mobile networks.
Cisco’s $28-billion deal for Splunk is likely to prompt other tech giants to splash out on similar acquisitions.
Vumatel is making significant progress with its fibre broadband trial in Alexandra in Johannesburg ahead of a wider roll-out.