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Conversation versus replenishment: Enrico Ferigolli on Penny, Gemini and how Pick n Pay is taking on Sixty60.
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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Melon Mobile has become the latest South African telecoms provider to make voice calls effectively free of charge.
Virtual reality headsets have started entering South African classrooms, with the aim of supplementing the curriculum.
WeWork has sought bankruptcy protection after its bets on companies using more of its office-sharing space soured.
Eskom has handed over load shedding operations for large parts of Johannesburg to City Power.
Walmart-owned South African retail group Massmart has appointed a new head of e-commerce.
An acute shortage of skilled workers is restraining already tepid growth in South Africa – and the problem is self-inflicted.
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Huawei Technologies’ chairman has said that although US sanctions have choked its smartphone business, it will not give up and plans to eventually return to the industry’s “throne”.
President Xi Jinping put China’s wealthiest citizens on notice on Tuesday, offering an outline for “common prosperity” that includes income regulation and redistribution, according to state media reports.
Billionaire Richard Li’s streaming business is on a roll, mulling a potential initial public offering after its platform Viu beat Netflix in subscribers in one of Asia’s most competitive markets.
Chinese regulators on Tuesday issued a lengthy set of draft regulations for the Internet sector, banning unfair competition and restricting the use of user data.
Volkswagen will seek redemption in electric cars, autonomous driving and ride-sharing after its cheating on diesel-emissions technology led to the biggest scandal in its history and hastened a corporate overhaul
Apple’s new artificial intelligence capabilities may help it protect its software and services businesses from incursions by Alphabet’s Google – and cut the Internet giant out of lucrative search roles on its devices. At Apple’s Worldwide Developer
































