262 MTN Group chairman Mcebisi Jonas MTN Group chairman and President Ramaphosa’s envoy to the US, Mcebisi Jonas, has told the Sunday Times that there is a deliberate campaign of “dirty tricks”…
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Silicon socialism? Intel joins ranks of ‘too big to fail’
207 Dado Ruvic/Reuters US President Donald Trump is injecting nearly US$9-billion into Intel in exchange for a 9.9% equity stake. But the money — which the struggling chip maker was slated to…
Trump strikes US deal to buy 10% of Intel
230 US President Donald Trump. Image US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the US would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chip maker that…
Musk tried to rope in Zuckerberg for $97-billion OpenAI bid
215 Elon Musk. David Swanson/Reuters Elon Musk tried to enlist rival Mark Zuckerberg for the US$97.4-billion bid that his consortium made for OpenAI earlier this year, but the CEO of Meta Platforms…
TCS | The story behind Nedbank’s R1.65-billion iKhokha deal
216 Nedbank announced last week that it was acquiring Durban-based fintech iKhokha in a R1.65-billion deal that could signal the start of further consolidation in the payments industry in South Africa. Nedbank…
South Africa’s human falcon – TechCentral
274 With the jagged peaks of Cape Town’s Table Mountain beneath him and the wind roaring past his wingsuit, South African Jean-Jacques Wallis is redefining the limits of human flight — and…
Google rolls out advanced AI Mode in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya
171 Google’s new AI Mode, which allows for complex queries via search to be solved by AI, is being launched in African markets including South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, on Thursday. According…
Cell C a step closer to possible JSE listing
141 The Competition Tribunal has given the green light to a transaction that should help advance a proposed plan to list Cell C on the JSE. The regulator on Thursday said it…
INX-ZA to supercharge its South African internet exchanges
177 South Africa’s oldest internet exchange point operator, INX-ZA, has announced a plan to upgrade its infrastructure using high-performance routers from Nokia that offer throughput of up to 400Gbit/s each. INX-ZA, which…
JSE eyes 24-hour trading – but liquidity and tech hurdles loom
141 JSE CIO Tebalo Tsaoeli Changing the JSE’s operating cycle from the current nine hours (9am-5pm on weekdays) to 24/7 trading would require changes to the local bourse’s operating model to account…
