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Vodacom today published its financial results for the year to end-March and disclosed solid performance from its mobile money platforms. “Our mobile money platforms, including Safaricom, processed $525.6 billion of transaction value in the year, up 16.6%, representing leadership in the African FinTech space,” Shameel Joosub, Vodacom Group CEO, disclosed on Monday. This makes Vodacom’s […]
The defence procurement agency sees mounting internal pressure over its outdated IT that is exposing it to growing cyber security risks.
Vodacom Group today published its financial results for the year to end-March 2026 and gave the market a glimpse to the performance of its Internet of Things (IoT) business, IoT.nxt. IoT.nxt is a subsidiary of Vodacom South Africa and its financials are embedded in the local unit. Since Vodacom’s strategic R1 billion acquisition of a […]
Shareholders voted and overwhelmingly approved the company’s acquisition of 80% of shares in the Pay@ Group.
Ford’s sales of electrified vehicles — including hybrids and all-electric models — dropped 31% from April 2025, reports Electrek. “Hybrid sales fell 32% to 15,758 vehicles, while EV sales continued to crash with just 3,655 all-electric models sold last month, 25% fewer than in the year prior.”After discontinuing the F-150 Lightning in December, sales of the electric pickup have been in free...
Prosus is selling a 5% Delivery Hero stake to Aspex Management to fulfil European Commission commitments.
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The AI conversation is dominated by tools, infrastructure and innovation – but without the skills to support it, it quickly becomes an operational risk.
The company’s ownership culture means it recommends solutions that realistically align with clients’ strategies, says Wesley Buck, solutions architect at Retro Rabbit/SmarTek21.
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The goodwill makes Vodacom’s balance sheet vulnerable to impairment if Maziv fails to deliver expected growth.
Healthcare providers need integrated solutions that treat security and compliance as core engineering principles,says Altron HealthTech.
Pronunciation puzzles
A homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation as, or is spelt identical to, another word with a different meaning.
For example, the letter “a” has the homonym “eh”.
(Second option) (Switch back and forth)
(Suitable) (Commandeer)
(Satisfied) (Components)
(Conference attendee) (Assign)
(Price reduction) (Disregard)
(Way in) (Enrapture)
(Incorrect) (Disabled)
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Vodacom Group has released a set of financial results that shows headline earnings and free cash each growing by more than 20%, the benefits of our revenue and geographic diversification are apparent, even amid a complex and dynamic macroeconomic environment. The latest financials for the year to end-March 31, 2006 reflected a final dividend of […]
Egypt and Safaricom drove a 22.9% jump in headline earnings as the South African business posted only modest growth.
Pop star claims Samsung used her image on TV packaging without permission, seeking at least $15-million in damages.
Situated between the much brighter Leo and Libra, Virgo is well placed for observation in the northern spring months
The constellation of Virgo, the virgin, is particularly well placed for observation during the northern spring months. Virgo is one of the fainter zodiacal constellations, meaning it sits on the imaginary line in the sky that is followed by the sun, moon and planets.
It is...
The free/open source project OrcaSlicer is a popular fork of 3D printer slicing software from Bambu Lab. But Tuesday independent developer Pawel Jarczak shuttered the project “following legal threats from Bambu Lab,” reports Tom’s Hardware:Jarczak’s fork of OrcaSlicer would have allowed users to bypass Bambu Connect, a middleware application that severely limits OrcaSlicer’s access to remote...
In Polymarket’s prediction market, “most people end up losing money,” reports the Washington Post — typically a few bucks. “Since Polymarket launched in 2022, a few thousand people have lost the bulk of the money… and an even smaller group — .05 percent of users — has gone home with most of the overall profits, according to a new analysis from finance researcher Pat Akey and colleagues.”A...
Open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 “has been around since 2011,” Kotaku notes, and has made 70% of the PlayStation 3’s library fully playable, “bolstered in part by the many users who contribute to its GitHub page.” But their dev team “took to X today to very kindly and civilly request that users ‘stop submitting AI slop code pull requests’ to its GitHub page.”Then they immediately proceeded to...