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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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.
Nersa has approved a 33.77% increase in Eskom’s electricity tariffs over the next two years, starting with a whopping increase of 18.65% this April.
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A US federal judge temporarily blocked Microsoft from working on a $10-billion Pentagon cloud computing contract after Amazon.com asked for the delay, a surprise win for the company.
Scarce components have pushed the manufacturing costs for Sony’s next PlayStation to around $450/unit, forcing a difficult price-setting decision in its battle with Microsoft.
Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison is making friends with his enemy’s enemy, who happens to be the President of the United States.
Spain had seen no reason to cancel the event on health grounds, deputy Prime Minister and economy minister Nadia Calvino said in an interview on Thursday.
As parliament this week shines a spotlight on the cost of communications in South Africa, it has emerged that Vodacom’s high-end, all-in-one contract packages are significantly more expensive than similar products at other Vodafone-owned operations around the world. An investigation by
StarSat, the pay-television platform previously known as TopTV, will emerge as a “serious competitor” to MultiChoice, the Naspers subsidiary that owns the dominant DStv service. That’s the word from Peter van den Steen, who is overseeing the business rescue of StarSat parent On
