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Google has showed how it is building on artificial intelligence across its businesses, including a beefed-up Gemini chatbot and improvements to its prized search engine as it races to compete with AI rivals. The flurry of announ

The Yemeni government is holding back repairs on a key internet cable that's been damaged in the Red Sea as it conducts a criminal investigation into the cable owners' alleged ties to the Houthi militia. The Iran-backed Houthis,

France's Groupe Canal+ has continued snapping up shares of MultiChoice Group as a 4 June deadline nears to publish a joint circular about the former's mandatory offer to acquire the JSE-listed parent of DStv and Showmax. Canal+

The rand has erased the year's losses and South Africa's benchmark stock index closed at the highest level in more than nine months as investors positioned for a market-friendly outcome in the 29 May election. The currency is on

MTN Group, Africas biggest telecommunications operator, reported an 18.8% decline in its first-quarter service revenue, weighed down by the performance of MTN Nigeria. South Africa-headquartered MTN, with 288 million subscribers

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Monday it would release a new AI model called GPT-4o, capable of realistic voice conversation and able to interact across text and image, its latest move to stay ahead in a race to dominate the emerging techn

Zimbabwe will allow mobile money agents, once blamed for fuelling the collapse of the now-defunct Zimbabwean dollar, to operate again to boost the use of its new gold-backed currency. Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, founded by tycoon

Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub said on Monday that planned further cuts to call termination rates will have no real impact on the retail prices paid by consumers. Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on Monday, Joosub urged

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday rejected opposition allegations that a recent pause in the electricity cuts that have plagued the country for years was due to the election coming up on 29 May. Rolling power cuts imposed by E