MTN won or shared 10 of 16 Opensignal awards to keep its best-network title, though Vodacom leads on 5G speed.
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Gene editing and AI are behind several of this year’s medical advances, but not all.
EXSA, already licensed to trade locally, now wants to move electricity across Southern African borders.
Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
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South Africa and the governments of the Netherlands and Denmark have launched a $1-billion green hydrogen fund.
Vodacom in South Africa will soon offer all customers with supported devices the ability to use embedded Sims.
Canal+ has agreed to buy a significant minority stake in Hong Kong-listed PCCW’s Viu unit.
MultiChoice Group will launch an overhauled version of its streaming platform, Showmax, before the end of the year.
Spotify Technology is planning a more expensive subscription tier that’s expected to include high-fidelity audio.
South Africa’s commercial property industry has the potential to ease the country’s power crisis, a new study has found.
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Airbnb has announced a global ban on parties and events listed on its platform in a bid to comply with Covid-19 health protocols.
China will take “all necessary measures” to protect its firms’ legitimate interests, the commerce ministry said, in response to the US move this week to further tighten restrictions on Huawei.
Short-term home rental company Airbnb has filed confidentially for an initial public offering with US regulators, setting the stage for one of 2020’s marquee stock market debuts.
Oracle’s bid for the US operations of TikTok received the backing of US President Donald Trump, bolstering the software maker’s attempt to derail takeover talks led by rival Microsoft.
Microsoft, once the dominant force in the software industry, has for a few years been on the back foot. Despite its undeniable clout and the world’s largest installed base of users, it has been slow to move
Google’s announcement that it will not provide security updates for older versions of its Android mobile operating system means that more than a billion users face growing security risks to their phones or tablets
