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Icasa has withdrawn the allegation three days after a councillor raised it in parliament, conceding it had done no investigation.
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The highly anticipated report will be released in 2025 to “ensure accuracy”, the Competition Commission said.
Despite a 2024 financial year stained in red ink, Eskom’s financial performance is improving, chairman Mteto Nyati said.
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Microsoft is reportedly in talks to invest $10-billion into OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, which will value the San Francisco-based firm at $29-billion.
Apple exported more than $2.5-billion worth of iPhones from India from April to December, nearly twice the previous fiscal year’s total.
Chinese technology shares advanced on Monday as the sector’s outlook improved further following regulator comments that a years-long crackdown is ending.
Ant Group’s founder Jack Ma will give up control of the Chinese fintech giant in an overhaul that seeks to draw a line under a regulatory crackdown.
At this year’s Beijing Auto Show, a retired Chinese bureaucrat bent down to run his hands over the hood of a sleek sports coupe billed as the world’s fastest battery-powered car, and he smiled like a proud father.
Reports from the International Labour Organisation and the JPMorgan Chase Institute describe the plight of gig-economy workers who struggle to make even their countries’ minimum wage toiling for giant tech platforms.

































