South Africa has a curious habit of legislating fantasies and then acting surprised when the real economy ignores them.
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Confusion in the electrical sector has led to claims that all Schuko plugs and sockets are banned. This is not true.
Novus Holdings is vowing to fight a Takeover Regulation Panel ruling that it must increase its offer to Mustek shareholders.
Fifty years after television’s arrival in South Africa, the SABC faces hard questions about relevance, funding and its mandate.
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South Africa’s largest data centre operator, Teraco Data Environments, will henceforth be known as Teraco: A Digital Realty Company.
Nedbank Group wants to almost double its lending to green energy projects in South Africa over the next two years.
Manufacturing activity contracted for the first time in a year in July, when South Africa experienced severe power cuts, Absa said on Monday.
David Hirsch, the former Incredible Connection executive director who last year launched a new retail venture, TechMarkit, has opened the company’s first store.
The recapitalisation of Cell C is taking longer than expected, and will now only be concluded “towards the end of August”.
MTN Group said it expects headline earnings per share to jump by between 40% and 50% in the six months to 30 June 2022.
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Barring a precipitous drop in Apple’s share price, CEO TIm Cook will receive 560 000 shares on Monday, worth a combined $278.6-million, or R4.7-billion.
Microsoft is backing Epic Games in its fight with Apple. The company has been upset with Apple’s rules preventing it from releasing a cloud-gaming service that works with iPads and iPhones.
Tencent Holdings jumped the most in two weeks after White House officials are said to have reassured American businesses that a ban on its WeChat app won’t be as broad as feared.
The enormous rally in tech stocks has further to run, according to analysts at investment bank JP Morgan, who recommend staying invested across the sector for its growth potential.
Regulators are taking extraordinarily long to weigh up a number of big deals, including Vodacom’s proposed acquisition of Neotel, while the industry waits on tenterhooks for news that could change the sector. A number of significant deals that could
The Internet of things has attracted a lot of attention and generated considerable column inches; and yet, despite all the attention, has remained pretty much absent – an Internet of vapourware. Samsung wants to Internet-connect all the items in your home and major firms
