Vodacom and MTN groups’ fintech arms now process a combined value of over $1-trillion/year in transactions.
Top News
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.
More News
Sigfox has secured a contract to supply the technology that will underpin South Africa’s new smart water meter infrastructure.
Google has declined to provide details to TechCentral regarding a new cable to connect Africa and Australia.
Canal+ and MultiChoice have hinted at how they will seek to get around strict foreign ownership restrictions in South Africa.
South Korea has agreed with the leaders of African countries to forge deeper trade and business cooperation.
An independent board formed by MultiChoice recommended an all-cash mandatory offer made by France’s Canal+.
Assets are rebounding, fuelled by investor hopes that the country will soon get a more market-friendly government.
World News
Cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius Network will pause withdrawals and transfers between accounts in the latest sign of pressure in the industry.
Lawyers are investigating Meta Platforms’ outgoing operations chief Sheryl Sandberg’s use of company resources over several years, according to a report.
Microsoft is partnering with Samsung Electronics to allow gaming fans to play Xbox games directly on smart TVs without a console.
Apple plans to expand the line-up of laptops using its new, speedier in-house chips next year, aiming to grab a bigger share of the market, sources said.
Intel said on Wednesday that most of the processors running the world’s computers and smartphones have a feature that makes them susceptible to attack. The largest chip maker is working with rivals and partners on a fix, but
AMD is the sad sack of semiconductor makers. A security hole in its biggest rival’s computer chips gives it a small opening to change its fortunes. The bad news for Intel was a report that a design flaw in its widely used computer chips
