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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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The Competition Commission has ordered Apple and Google to give prominence to local apps in their app stores.
Sentech will at midnight on Monday move TV broadcasters out of the “digital dividend” frequency bands.
Telkom’s Openserve has grown the number of homes passed with its own fibre broadband infrastructure to 1.1 million.
Earnings are still under pressure, but the top line has grown nicely in Telkom’s most recent quarter ended 30 June 2023.
South Africa is planning to scale up its grid capacity as it works to address the crippling power shortages.
Cell C has hired another former Vodacom executive into a senior management role, this time Melanie Forbes as CMO.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted his frustration with US lawmakers’ questions on the social media platform during a hearing about misinformation on Thursday.
Slack Technologies rolled out a new feature on Wednesday designed to build out its e-mail replacement service called Slack Connect, but had to backtrack almost immediately after backlash over its potential for abuse.
A digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia was sold at auction on Thursday for more than R10-million) in the form of a non-fungible token.
Intel will greatly expand its advanced chip manufacturing capacity as the new CEO announced plans to spend as much as $20-billion to build two factories and to open up its facilities to outside customers.
Vast Networks, billed as Africa’s first open-access Wi-Fi infrastructure operator, plans big expansion in the coming years as it looks first to consolidate the networks it’s inherited and then expand
Computer game publisher Activision Blizzard has this week announced that it intends to buy King Digital, the makers of Candy Crush Saga, for US$5,9bn. Unlike competitors such as Zynga, King Digital
































