Naspers and Prosus chairman Koos Bekker has sold shares in both companies worth about R2.5-billion over three trading days.
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Groupe Canal+ and Warner Bros Discovery have struck a last-minute agreement to keep channels like CNN on DStv.
The rand ended 2025 nearly 13% stronger against the US dollar, marking its biggest annual gain in 16 years.
Louis Gerstner, the former CEO and chairman of IBM, died on Saturday, aged 83.
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The Gauteng government and the University of Johannesburg will launch the Gauteng E-Waste Management System to tackle the province’s mounting electronic waste problem.
Naspers Foundry said on Tuesday that it will invest R15-million in Cape Town-based Floatplays, an “on-demand earned wage access platform”.
Icasa has vetted and approved all six companies that bid to take part in next month’s radio frequency spectrum auction for mobile broadband services.
Tencent denied talk that it’s facing a major regulatory crackdown in China, issuing an unusually aggressive public response. Shares in Naspers still tanked.
Many South African companies already use software from US CRM specialist Salesforce.com. Now the company has officially established a “legal entity” in the country.
The national health department is changing Covid-19 vaccination rules to try to increase uptake, as inoculations have slowed and the country has ample vaccine stocks.
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Boris Johnson’s decision to allow Chinese technology giant Huawei a role in Britain’s 5G network could threaten a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and America, US vice President Mike Pence has indicated.
Uber Technologies said it will deliver a first-ever quarterly profit by the end of the year, signalling that cost-cutting measures are exceeding even the company’s own recent expectations.
Huawei Technologies has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Verizon Communications following an apparent failure to agree licensing terms for the use of its intellectual property.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the social network is “learning faster” and “prioritising better” as it achieved US$1-billion in quarterly revenue for the first time.
Apple could be about to splash as much as US$3,2bn on Beats Electronics, the maker of a range of popular headphones. According to a report in the Financial Times, a deal could be announced as early as next week. But it may be less the headphones than Beats’s new music streaming service that has attracted the interest of Apple
State, a fast-growing international social communications network built around user sentiment and personal opinion, has been launched in South Africa. The London-based State was founded by British-Lebanese entrepreneurs and brothers Alexander and Mark Asseily. They want to change the way we look at social networks by
