Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago signals a payments bill that will treat fintechs like banks on like activities.
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Woolworths grew online food sales 18.3% while Checkers Sixty60 managed 34.7% off a far larger base.
South Africa’s financial services sector regulator has debarred Africa Bitcoin Corporation CEO Warren Wheatley.
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model is so capable it needs extra safety measures before launch.
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Cabinet has approved a bill on electricity regulation designed to clear the path for private generation projects and power trading.
The former Eskom CEO has agreed to appear before parliament and present a written submission over corruption at the utility.
A family trust linked to Naspers chairman Koos Bekker has offloaded the euro equivalent of R3.4-billion in Prosus, according to a regulatory filing.
Seacom has appointed Alpheus Mangale, a former head of IT at Standard Bank, as its new CEO, replacing Oliver Fortuin in the role.
South Africa has expressed concern that the United Arab Emirates has yet to provide an update on a request to extradite Atul and Rajesh Gupta.
Three major jolts in as many years coupled with the once unthinkable possibility of a power grid collapse have spooked reinsurers in South Africa.
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With the consumer economy in tatters and gadget sales plummeting, Samsung’s smartphone division threatened to undermine the strength it found in shipping memory chips used in servers
Google and Facebook took particularly sharp jabs for alleged abuse of their market power from politicians on Wednesday in a much-anticipated hearing that put four of the US’s most prominent tech CEOs in the hot seat.
Huawei Technologies overtook Samsung Electronics in global smartphone shipments in the second quarter after Chinese consumer spending bounced back from a Covid-19 trough, according to Canalys.
At Wednesday’s antitrust hearing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to tell the US congress his company is an American success story crucial in winning an Internet arms race against China. TikTok’s CEO is already striking back.
Two people walk into a seminar: one takes photos, video and an audio recording of the presentation, while the other takes hand-written notes. Which person do you think will better recall the information? The former can use their digital notes to create something new that builds on the topic, the latter
The Internet is a worldwide network, but not everything on it is available to everyone. That’s particularly true for services that are locked to regions – music streaming services such as Spotify and Google Play Music All Access as well as video-on-demand platforms such as Netflix and Hulu
