Vodacom Group has completed the acquisition of an additional interest in Safaricom, taking majority control.
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Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
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Former DA leader Tony Leon has denied his firm improperly lobbied ministers for clients including Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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It should have been obvious from the start that Elon Musk’s Hyperloop was just a boy’s own fantasy and could never work.
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Amazon is secretly developing a new AI-powered smartphone a decade after the Fire Phone flopped spectacularly.
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The shadow of the 2021 crypto bubble still hangs over much of the sector.
Elon Musk’s meteoric rise to the top of US politics as efficiency tsar is generating high anxiety in Europe.
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