The alliance banking deal lets South Africa’s biggest retailer expand its financial services without becoming a bank.
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MTN says it and Cell C have not agreed on certain terms of their commercial relationship.
ACT’s Nomvuyiso Batyi explains why South Africa’s telcos won’t back Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
A new chief digital officer and strategy head complete six senior appointments at the troubled State IT Agency this financial year.
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Blue Label Telecoms, which owns about 49.5% of Cell C, looks set to make an offer to take control of the company in the coming months.
The Automotive Business Council has recommended that government subsidise South Africans wanting to buy full electric vehicles to the tune of R80 000.
Investors welcomed plans by government to take on 60% of Eskom’s debt over the next three years.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter will depart as CEO of Eskom with immediate effect after he slammed the ANC and its “embarrassing”, Soviet-era ideology in a media interview.
MTN South Africa is increasing its consumer post-paid subscription fees by an average of 5.1%. Voice tariffs are also rising.
Government has introduced a R9-billion tax relief programme to reduce the impact of load shedding and support South Africa’s clean energy transition.
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Facebook and its partners said their libra cryptocurrency project will now support multiple versions of the digital coins, the majority of which will be backed by individual fiat currencies.
Google parent Alphabet is slowing hiring for the remainder of the year, the most drastic action by the Internet search giant since the Covid-19 pandemic began battering its advertising business.
GoPro said it will cut more than 200 jobs, shift the company’s sales operation to market its digital adventure cameras directly to consumers and withdraw its 2020 financial guidance.
ByteDance just kicked off a wave of hiring it envisions hitting 40 000 new jobs in 2020, at a time technology corporations across the globe are furloughing or reducing staff.
Communications regulator Icasa is considering ways of opening up extremely high frequency (EHF) radio spectrum bands above 30GHz, one of its councillors, William Stucke, said at the Future Wireless Technology Forum on Thursday. The forum was organised by the Wireless Access
It appears that one of world’s most popular music subscription services, Spotify, is getting ready to launch in South Africa, and possibly other markets in Africa, in the coming months. The Swedish company has appointed Oscar Sehlberg Westergård to head up the region and sources say the firm, which already offers its services in 56 countries, is
