Alibaba and Ant co-founder Jack Ma has resurfaced after months out of public view, quashing intense speculation about the plight of the billionaire grappling with escalating scrutiny over his Internet empire.
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Netflix’s global subscriber rolls crossed 200 million at the end of 2020 and the company projected it will no longer need to borrow billions of dollars to finance its broad slate of TV shows and movies.
Eswatini – formerly Swaziland – has become the first, and possibly last, country in Africa to sign a pledge to join the outgoing Trump administration’s anti-China “Clean Network” programme.
The supreme court of appeal has thrown out MTN South Africa’s appeal against a judgment ordering it to pay R11.4-million in damages, plus interest, to a dealer whose business was shut down in 2011.
Prosus is investing in agritech company DeHaat in a bet on India’s $350-billion farming industry. The group led a series-C funding round of $30-million that DeHaat will use to expand.
Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa’s powerful MeerKAT telescope, located in the Karoo.
Eskom has firmed up a plan to implement load shedding in Johannesburg in two-hour blocks, instead of the current four-hour interruptions, with effect from 19 January.
Eskom’s official three-month outlook for demand and generating capacity shows a high likelihood of load shedding every single week until mid-April. But there is reason for encouragement.
South Africa’s long history of astronomical research began when French academic Nicolas-Louis de La Caille visited Cape Town from 1751 to 1753 and undertook a careful examination of every square degree of the southern sky.
Interviews with more than 20 current and former CD Projekt staff depict a development process marred by unchecked ambition, poor planning and technical shortcomings.