A look at South African tech start-ups whose global acquisitions delivered big exits for founders and international impact.
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Xneelo has begun construction on a second data centre at Samrand in Gauteng.
A partnership between four financial institutions has led to the launch of an “institutional-grade” stablecoin pegged to the rand.
The entry of China’s Haier into South Africa looks set to sharpen competition in the local home appliance market.
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Eskom has fallen far short of targets to reduce particulate emissions at its ageing coal-fired power stations.
MTN South Africa is hiking prices for post-paid customers from 1 February.
Six of the 10 most-stolen car models in the UK in the year to March 2023 were Range Rovers.
Eskom’s interim results for the six months to end-September 2023 show a power utility in deep crisis.
Hundreds of thousands of grant recipients will be affected by the decision, with warnings about the impact on the rural poor.
Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes. But be wary of them.
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Adobe gave a disappointing outlook for the current period, suggesting increased competition is making a dent against the company’s signature design software.
Revenue at Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent grew just 8% in the fourth quarter, the slowest pace since it went public in 2004.
Microsoft said a hacker group gained “limited access” to its systems, following a claim by the group that it obtained source code for Bing and Cortana.
Hundreds of customers of digital authentication firm Okta have possibly been affected by a security breach caused by a hacking group known as Lapsus$.
Why aren’t there more female software developers in Silicon Valley? James Damore, the Google engineer fired for criticising the company’s diversity programme, believes that it’s all about “innate dispositional differences
Naspers’s conglomerate discount is widening. Its one-third stake in Tencent Holdings alone is now worth 27% more than the South African Internet company’s entire market cap. After a 70% increase in its stock so far this year
