Vodacom and MTN groups’ fintech arms now process a combined value of over $1-trillion/year in transactions.
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Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has compared voice’s decline to the same trajectory SMS followed into irrelevance.
With voice revenue falling and customer growth stalled, Vodacom is struggling to cash in on surging data traffic.
Severe weather has cut power across dozens of Cape towns, with restoration delayed by unsafe conditions.
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A month after launch, the e-commerce giant appears to be struggling to make significant inroads into the local market.
iStore has joined the on-demand shopping fray, promising free deliveries in Cape Town and Sandton in under 60 minutes.
Microsoft says a key new feature in an upcoming line of AI-branded PCs will be shipped in the “off” position.
City Power has warned it will impose “load reduction” on Johannesburg residents to “protect the grid from total collapse”.
An antitrust tribunal in Nigeria has fined MultiChoice and ordered a month of free viewing for its subscribers there.
Stellantis is considering expanding into the production of new-energy vehicles in South Africa, its local MD said.
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The crypto industry was on edge on Monday morning on fears contagion from problems at major crypto players could unleash a major shakeout if not contained.
Tencent has formed an “extended reality” unit, sources said, formally placing its bets on the metaverse concept of virtual worlds.
At least five employees were fired by private rocket company SpaceX after drafting and circulating an open letter criticising founder Elon Musk.
SpaceX employees have penned a letter to company executives, denouncing the behavior of CEO Elon Musk in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.
There’s a compelling reason to consider what’s going on with cryptocurrencies a purely speculative boom-and-bust roller-coaster: over a three-month period, the prices of all the top coins and tokens are rather strongly correlated
The threat of large-scale cyberattacks and a “deteriorating geopolitical landscape” since the election of US President Donald Trump have jumped to the top of the global elite’s list of concerns, the World Economic

































