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    Musk tweets, doge leaps and bitcoin retreats

    By Agency Staff14 May 2021

    Bitcoin was pinned near its lowest in more than two months on Friday, while dogecoin leapt by a fifth as tweets from Tesla boss Elon Musk sent the two cryptocurrencies on a wild ride.

    Tencent is a R600-billion headache for its biggest backer

    By Alex Webb14 May 2021

    For now, Naspers and Prosus CEO Bob van Dijk has managed to figure out a short-term fix for his problem. Eventually he’ll need to think longer term. By Alex Webb.

    Bridging the digital divide: How NuovoPay helps increase access to technology

    By Swapnil Shete14 May 2021

    Promoted | NuovoPay is a tool that is designed to curb the digital divide by de-risking the device financing model with a proprietary remote-locking technology.

    Latest Naspers value-unlock plan met with investor scepticism

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    Ultimately, investors may have to learn to live with the valuation gap between Naspers and Tencent. And management may have to ignore complaints about it and focus on growing Prosus’s investments.

    Elon Musk conveniently ignored bitcoin’s inconvenient truth

    By Agency Staff13 May 2021

    The more Elon Musk blends payment U-turns, social media memes and stand-up comedy, the harder it will be to detect where the future of money ends and the “hustle” begins. Which might be the whole point.

    Safaricom in talks to bring M-Pesa support to Amazon.com

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    Vodacom’s Safaricom reports earnings decline on pandemic fallout

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    Kenya’s Safaricom posted a drop in its full-year core earnings as the impact of Covid-19 cut revenue from financial services and calls, though it predicted a recovery based on second-half numbers.

    ‘Game changing’: Biden unveils new rules to fight cyberattacks

    By Agency Staff13 May 2021

    US President Joe Biden has ordered the creation of an air accident-style cyber review board and the imposition of new software standards for government agencies following a spate of digital intrusions.

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