197 Peter Thiel. Brendan McDermid/Reuters Peter Thiel, the US billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of Donald Trump, launched a series of closed-door lectures in Rome on Sunday exploring the concept of…
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Your Airbnb is empty half the year
190 AirhostSwap is a South African platform tackling one of the biggest problems in the short-term rental sector: unbooked nights that drag down annual average occupancy rates, especially during the low season….
Mitel receives 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award
217 Mitel, a global leader in business communications, has announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Mitel CX as a 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award winner….
Optasia beats IPO guidance in maiden results as lending scales
202 Salvador Anglada Optasia, the fintech that listed on the JSE in November, has delivered a set of maiden annual results that comfortably exceed the guidance it gave investors at the time…
MTN’s mobile money machine
232 MTN Group’s fintech business now processes more than half a trillion dollars in annual transaction value, underscoring the scale of mobile financial services on the African continent and the growing strategic…
MTN lines up partners for African AI data centre play
193 MTN Group is pushing ahead with plans to build AI-enabled data centres in South Africa and Nigeria as part of a broader bet that the continent’s digital infrastructure needs are about…
Why managing your Cisco Enterprise Agreement matters more than signing it
295 Software complexity is quietly eroding margins across the channel. Multiple contracts, different renewal dates, disconnected architectures, pricing uncertainty and limited visibility into consumption — for many organisations and partners, this is…
West Africa delivers big for MTN Group
221 MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group has reported a sharp recovery in earnings for the year to December 2025, swinging from a loss to a profit as a dramatic turnaround…
Shoprite takes majority stake in R&A Cellular
241 Shoprite Group has acquired a majority stake in R&A Cellular, a point-of-sale platform serving South Africa’s informal retail sector, as part of a push to extend its financial services offering beyond…
Post Office on the brink of collapse
200 Communications minister Solly Malatsi has dismissed as “premature” a move by the South African Post Office’s business rescue practitioners to file for the liquidation of the embattled state-owned company, saying ongoing…