Vodacom Group has completed the acquisition of an additional interest in Safaricom, taking majority control.
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Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
Takealot is not treating Amazon’s arrival in South Africa as a threat to be survived so much as a contest just getting under way.
Former DA leader Tony Leon has denied his firm improperly lobbied ministers for clients including Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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IoT.nxt, the specialist internet of things company owned by Vodacom Group, has appointed Vasin Govender as its new CEO.
Government is proposing extending a cut in the general fuel levy until early August to help shield consumers from high fuel prices linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
MultiChoice Group has installed a studio at its broadcast centre in Randburg, Johannesburg capable of high-end Dolby Atmos audio productions.
The SABC has apologised to its former head of news, who was dismissed earlier this year, after she was blocked from viewing the SABC News Twitter account.
Huge Group has secured new debt financing from Rand Merchant Bank, in the process refinancing existing debt and giving the firm additional ammunition for acquisitions.
Government last year lifted the cap on private power generation to 100MW, below which companies don’t need to be licensed. Now Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has questioned why there’s a cap at all.
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has spoken about his decision to invest in artificial intelligence as part of a project which aims to create “a new type of media”.
A flurry of large trades in Naspers affiliate Tencent shows Asia’s biggest stock will struggle to avoid its worst week in months.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey called out his counterpart at Facebook, saying Mark Zuckerberg has a “major gap and flaw” in his argument for free speech on social media.
Facebook has started testing its news tab with selected users as the social network seeks to push people towards quality journalism.
DStv Online CEO John Kotsaftis, 41, is the quintessential geek. He tells me as much when I sit down to interview him in one of the boardrooms at DStv Online’s offices in Randburg, Johannesburg. His love of technology started with a friend’s gaming console. “He got an Atari
Very few black students get to do maths-based courses at university. This is because very few black students do maths as a subject for matric. Most are being encouraged to do maths literacy instead. This subject does not prepare one for a course at university that requires a maths foundation

































