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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MTN Group faces a R3.9-billion write-down, cash it cannot move and a stake it cannot sell, just as Washington escalates.
New shareholders have taken up shares in Frogfoot, Vox and Hypa in a transaction valuing the businesses at R14.4-billion.
Households will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens.
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Under Lisa Su, AMD has transformed from a struggling chip maker to a serious contender in the x86 processor market.
Glencore’s South African ferroalloys division and Merafe Resources will build a utility-scale renewable energy plant.
The commission has listed 40 suppliers whose businesses it claims are untraceable and potentially fraudulent.
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft.
Trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau will appeal the Competition Tribunal’s decision to prohibit the deal.
South Africa’s Information Regulator has received a complaint that Truecaller is violating “multiple sections” of Popia.
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Moves by cryptocurrency exchanges to reassure markets about their stability are having little effect on jittery users.
“I don’t see any reason for it,” the former president said via video when asked whether he planned to return to Twitter.
The disillusionment that follows bouts of crypto euphoria is known as a crypto winter. And this one feels like the coldest yet.
Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted an upbeat message on a day when many employees decided to leave the company.
Online disinformation and the spread of deceptive political messages are pernicious, but they aren’t necessarily the worst abuse of social networks by governments and political actors.
The risks of innovations such as artificial intelligence and 3D printing wielded by nimble competitors from Silicon Valley or China are shaking up Germany’s engineering-led economy.
