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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Andrew Baker takes over from Wim de Bruyn, who will now head a different executive portfolio within the bank.
Telkom’s enterprise IT subsidiary BCX will soon lose its CEO, Jonas Bogoshi, who is set to retire from the role.
Artificial intelligence is a big cause of the stress CISOs are under. And the technology also offers a potential solution.
The president’s clarity of electricity reform was welcome but his silence on de-industrialisation was alarming.
Warner Bros is reportedly considering reopening sale talks with rival Hollywood studio Paramount Skydance.
Mustek expects headline earnings per share to surge by as much as 270% for the six months to end-December 2025.
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Creating and sharing sexually explicit “deepfakes” will become a criminal offence in Britain, the government said.
Meta Platforms will end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the US.
China will expand consumption subsidies to cover smartphones and other electronics in a step to promote domestic spending.
CES 2025 comes days before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.
Vumatel is making significant progress with its fibre broadband trial in Alexandra in Johannesburg ahead of a wider roll-out.
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