The internet industry has warned that blocking illegal betting sites is easy to dodge, risky and potentially unlawful.
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Payments giant Visa has detailed how AI agents, richer tokens and blockchain settlement will reshape commerce.
Pick n Pay’s asap! app is adding Penny, a Gemini-powered assistant that builds your basket by conversation.
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By its own admission, in the last year Eskom has failed more than ever before to carry out its basic contract.
Government is still assessing the effect of adding interest to a R254-billion debt relief package for Eskom.
Banking app kidnappings, with the aim of gaining unauthorised access to victims’ money under duress, are on the rise.
Voice revenues generated by South Africa’s mobile operators are still sliding, new figures from MTN suggest.
MTN South Africa’s margins remain under pressure as the company invests in making its network resilient against load shedding.
MTN Group hopes to exit Afghanistan soon, with Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry and Liberia likely next to be sold.
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The investing world is enthralled by a determined Beijing as it cuts China’s private sector down to size by relentless regulatory action. India’s more subtle manoeuvres in the same direction are going largely unnoticed.
Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg may be making big plans in the cryptocurrency space, but Vitalik Buterin doesn’t see them as likely to gain much traction.
Since early in the pandemic, soaring demand for consumer electronics led to persistent chip shortages. Some recent signs suggest the situation may finally be starting to change.
Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings posted a 29% rise in second quarter profit, a slower pace of growth after the coronavirus pandemic led to a boom in online gaming last year.
In 2015, the total value of e-commerce in China was US$603bn. Of that, $485bn, or 80%, went through Alibaba. The scale of the company’s dominance in the country is quite staggering, and speaking at the Consumer Goods
Both Apple and Google use their developer conferences to introduce updates to their mobile operating systems. Google IO, held last month, introduced Google’s latest version “N” of Android, along with new apps. Apple has done the
