China is shaping how open-source technology is developed, licensed and deployed.
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Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago signals a payments bill that will treat fintechs like banks on like activities.
Shoprite has closed its R&A Cellular deal, taking 51% of the point-of-sale platform serving spaza shops.
Wiocc Group is raising $300-million from AFC and Saudi Arabia’s Vision Invest, its biggest round yet.
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MTN has expanded MoMo’s remittance network by adding 25 new wallet corridors across 10 African countries.
Starlink has halted internet services in Zimbabwe until it receives licensing approval, a top official said.
Paratus Group has launched what it claims is the fastest “fibre express route” from Johannesburg to Europe.
French broadcaster Canal+ has bought up another big chunk of shares in acquisition target MultiChoice Group.
Brandon Foot, a long-serving executive at MultiChoice Group – including its subsidiary SuperSport – has passed away.
Eskom is in talks with government over private and foreign options to fund a huge expansion of its transmission network.
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Several companies that have been ordered to pay a total of C¥21.5-million in fines by China’s competition watchdog.
El Salvador plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City”, funded initially by bitcoin-backed bonds, President Nayib Bukele said.
Apple might shake up the electric vehicles market in the same way the iPhone revolutionised the mobile communications industry, says Morgan Stanley.
Bitcoin fell to a one-month low on Friday and was headed for its worst week in six months.
Following the shock results of Brexit and the Trump victory, a lot of attention has focused on the role that Facebook might have played in creating online political ghettos in which false news can easily spread. Facebook now has serious political
The focus on “state capture” in South Africa has tended to divert attention from a deeper question. How can the distribution of wealth and control over the economy be changed in material terms? There is an implicit justification for corruption
