The banks cannot reach South Africa’s R197-billion informal retail market. Three other contenders think they can.
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The retailer has launched a shoppable video feed in asap!, its second app feature in two months.
Nasa’s Nancy Grace Roman telescope launches Sunday on a mission to explain dark energy and dark matter.
Despite the potential swing, the era of Nvidia surprising everyone with 20% moves looks to be over.
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Eskom blamed breakdowns for the escalation in the power cuts, which will be imposed at stage 2 during the day.
Barring a major upset, Amazon will soon launch an e-commerce marketplace in South Africa. What happens when it does?
Newly appointed Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has no intention of starting a price war with his bigger rivals in telecoms.
New Cell C CEO Jorges Mendes has called on Icasa to continue to skew call rates in the company’s favour.
Protestors gathered in the Cape Town CBD at the weekend to raise their voice against ballooning electricity prices.
MTN South Africa said it contributes R76-billion, 17 times its profit, to South Africa’s economy.
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China has pledged to boost spending and drive research into cutting-edge chips and artificial intelligence in its latest five-year targets, laying out a technological blueprint to vie for global influence with the US.
Apple could face an EU antitrust charge sheet in the coming weeks after a complaint by rival Spotify that it unfairly pushed its own music streaming service, two people familiar with the matter said.
YouTube will lift its suspension on former US President Donald Trump’s channel when it determines the risk of real-world violence has decreased, said the company’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki.
Payments firm Square’s deal to buy a majority stake in music streamer Tidal for $297-million could popularise blockchain or other new approaches to storing and buying online media.
Former Absa CEO Steve Booysen, who now heads up Metrofibre Networx – in which he is a significant investor – has outlined plans by the broadband telecommunications specialist to become the latest player to target South Africa’s fast-growing fibre-to-the-home market
Changes to South Africa’s competition law have widened the scope for the country’s antitrust bodies to punish anticompetitive behaviour. But implementing the changes, which were passed into law five years ago, is proving to be fraught with difficulty. The Competition Amendment Act
