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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Online fashion retailer Shein is set to file for an initial public offering in London as soon as this week.
Seacom expects its subsea cable system in the Red Sea to be repaired in the third quarter of 2024.
Investors are bracing for further upheaval in South Africa’s financial markets in the wake of last week’s elections.
Bitcoin blockchain’s reputation as a network that mainly supports digital gold may be changing.
The Nothing Phone range is a welcome addition to South Africa’s smartphone ecosystem.
Following an approach from shareholders, EOH Holdings has made big changes to its board of directors.
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Elon Musk’s efforts to arrange new financing that will limit his cash contribution to his $44-billion acquisition of Twitter have been put on hold, sources said.
China’s Tencent will release its flagship mobile game Honour of Kings globally by the end of the year as it pivots to the international gaming market.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered mobile phone companies to pay a levy estimated at about $180-million/year, sources said.
Apple must change the connector on iPhones sold in Europe by 2024 after EU countries agreed to a single charging port for mobile phones, tablets and cameras.
Bitcoin has wowed markets this year with breakneck gains as investors flocked to an asset that exists only in cyberspace. But the laborious creation of each digital bitcoin by private computer networks has real-world consequences
The US Federal Communications Commission has swept aside rules barring broadband providers from favouring the Internet traffic of websites willing to pay for speedier service, sending the future of net neutrality on to a likely court challenge
