New shareholders have taken up shares in Frogfoot, Vox and Hypa in a transaction valuing the businesses at R14.4-billion.
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In a marked break from rivals Vodacom and Telkom, MTN South Africa is dialling back airtime advances to its customers.
Households will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens.
MTN’s network spending in South Africa fell 17.1% while Nigeria received nearly three times as much in capital investments.
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After 15 years of cryptocurrency boom-and-bust cycles, a carnival mood is back and hushing the naysayers.
The Internet Service Providers’ Association wants to expand its membership base to include MVNOs.
Apple plans to bring satellite connections to its smartwatch in 2025 and is ramping up work on a blood-pressure feature.
Financial inclusion requires that non-banks be able to clear and settle payments, the Reserve Bank has told TechCentral.
Business confidence in South Africa saw its biggest year-on-year improvement in almost two years in November.
Icasa has published final amendments to the regulations that will see the further cutting of the rates.
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Apple has scaled back ambitious self-driving plans for its future electric vehicle and postponed the car’s target launch date by about a year.
Jack Dorsey’s Block is among the companies contributing to a funding round for a bitcoin miner in Africa fired by renewable power.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under US federal investigation for potential animal welfare violations.
Microsoft has offered Sony a 10-year contract to make each new Call of Duty release available on PlayStation the same day it comes to Xbox.
Willem Roos is aware of the expectation that he will disrupt the telecommunications industry as much with Rain Mobile, the upstart mobile data company, as he did the insurance industry with Outsurance.
Cameras for pros, such as Nikon’s $6 500 D5 and Canon’s $5 500 1D Mark II, were considered unassailable, until now. But Sony’s incursion into professional photography didn’t happen overnight.
