The Competition Commission’s first township economy report puts numbers on the gap – and on why it exists.
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Nigeria and Uganda are now closed, leaving Uber in just six African markets after four exits.
Rand Water has been hit by a cyberattack but has said it’s still business as usual, with no impact to water supply.
Hiten Parmar on why South Africa’s electric transition is starting with trucks rather than family cars.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa will no longer attend the World Economic Forum in Davos due to the ongoing energy crisis.
Bitcoin has bolted out of January’s starting gates with a climb of more than 28%.
MTN Group has encountered significant turbulence in one of its more important markets, Ghana, with tax authorities there claiming they are owed billions in unpaid taxes.
Eskom said on Friday that reducing load shedding, currently being implemented at stage 6, is its “highest priority”.
The Chinese Internet giant hopes it can turn Channels into the next WeChat Pay, but competing with TikTok won’t be easy.
Illicit use of cryptocurrencies hit a record last year as transactions involving companies targeted by US sanctions skyrocketed.
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Walt Disney Co’s top streaming executive, Kevin Mayer, will leave the entertainment and theme parks giant to become the CEO of TikTok, the popular video app owned by China’s ByteDance.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he is worried that China-style regulation of Internet platforms could be replicated in other countries, as leaders across the world consider greater online laws.
Uber Technologies will concentrate on its core businesses in ride-hailing and food delivery after the company announced a second round of job cuts during the coronavirus pandemic.
Huawei Technologies, in its first official response to the Trump administration’s move to curb its access to global chip supplies, called the decision “arbitrary” and said its business would be impacted.
The Gauteng provincial government has revealed more details about its plans to wire up the province to broadband. It is starting the project by connecting its core sites to a 1 600km fibre network. The province has also announced plans
Microsoft, fresh from concluding its acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services business, has announced it will discontinue the handset maker’s Asha and S40 feature phones, as well as, perhaps less surprisingly, the Nokia X Android phones, over the next 18 months. Feature phones and particularly the Nokia
