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South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
Cape Town start-up Shiprazor has raised R44-million, led by Norrsken22, to expand its courier network and AI tools.
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Investec is launching a payments system for its corporate clients to process high-volume, low-value payments.
The reviews are in, and Apple’s new M4-powered Mac mini is getting a whole lot of love. This and more in today’s Bookmarks.
In a major escalation over unpaid debt, Eskom has warned it may soon start interrupting power supply to Joburg.
Standard Bank has experienced a data breach involving a senior employee, who is now facing a disciplinary process.
A new report from BMIT shows the MVNO market is poised for further strong growth in the next five years.
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Tencent Holdings founder Pony Ma and others from China’s crackdown-hit Internet sector will be absent from this year’s parliamentary sessions.
The move underscores an accelerating shift of manufacturing away from China as Washington-Beijing tensions grow.
Brazil’s central bank has approved Meta Platforms’ payments launch for small and medium-sized business.
An aggressive new US cybersecurity strategy seeks to shift the blame from companies that get hacked to software manufacturers and device makers.
