From R7.7 billion to R2.7 billion in a month
Of the 182.92 million shares Cell C hoped to sell, including an overallotment option, investors only bought 102 million at a much lower price than the company had expected.
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Revolut, launching in SA soon, valued at $75-billion in share sale
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Ubisoft Shows Off New AI-Powered FPS And Hopes You’ve Forgotten About Its Failed NFTs
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How Google Finally Leapfrogged Rivals With New Gemini Rollout
An anonymous reader shares a report: With the release of its third version last week, Google’s Gemini large language model surged past ChatGPT and other competitors to become the most capable AI chatbot, as determined by consensus industry-benchmark tests. […] Aaron Levie, chief executive of the cloud content management company Box, got early access to Gemini 3 several days ahead of the launch....
Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
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The 10 Best Home Arcade Machines (2025), Tested and Reviewed
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Top South African tech retailer accused of “mass dismissals”
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Uber going electric in South Africa
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Pick n Pay Asap’s plan to beat Checkers Sixty60
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Absolute Hosting – AMD-powered servers for next-generation performance
Absolute Hosting is a top South African hosting provider and offers next-generation AMD-powered solutions.
Cloudflare Outage Shows the Limits of Centralised Infrastructure — And Why the Best Wallet Token Matters More Than Ever
When Cloudflare suffered a major system failure, the shockwaves hit the crypto world immediately. Wallet dashboards froze, exchanges stalled, price feeds collapsed and entire communities temporarily lost access to the very tools they rely on to navigate the market. Blockchains themselves kept running smoothly, but the services built around them buckled fast, revealing a weakness […]
New Mars Orbiter Manuever Challenges Theory: That May Not Be an Underground Lake on Mars
In 2018 researchers claimed evidence of a lake beneath the surface of Mars, detected by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument (or Marsis for short). But new Mars observations “are not consistent with the presence of liquid water in this location and an alternative explanation, such as very smooth basal materials, is needed.” Phys.org explainsAboard the Mars...
Best Altcoins 2026 Outlook – Why Bitcoin Hyper Is Becoming The Infrastructure Play Of This Cycle
2026 could mark a turning point for the best altcoins as the broader crypto ecosystem pivots from speculative frenzy into infrastructure play. The altcoin market enters the year under pressure: liquidity is thinning, venture capital has cooled, and the altcoin season fans many expected might still be on pause. Data show the altcoin-season index dropped […]
Best Apple Watch (2025): Buyer’s Guide to the Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3
Should you splurge on the new Series 11? Or will the Watch SE 3 do? Let us help you figure out which version to get (and which to avoid).