Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Abdul Saboor/Reuters Jeff Bezos has identified a new, high-profile platform to help showcase the hundreds of billions of dollars Amazon has bet on AI: Prime Video. The Amazon founder and executive chairman pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to overhaul the streaming service so that AI is front and centre, according…
Warrick Kernes, founder and CEO of the Insaka E-commerce Academy. Executives from Amazon South Africa and Takealot Fulfilment Solutions will headline this year’s Insaka E-commerce Virtual Summit, joining payments, logistics and digital marketing specialists to share practical strategies for growing online businesses. The free two-day online event, taking place on 5 and 6 August, will…
From left, Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare, communications minister Solly Malatsi, Herotel CEO Van Zyl Botha and Amazon’s David Zapolsky Amazon’s Leo satellite broadband service is coming to South Africa – and it has found a way in that sidesteps the licensing impasse that has kept rival Starlink out of the country. Herotel, the Maziv-owned internet…
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off carrying Amazon Leo internet network satellites from the Cape Canaveral in the US in April 2025. Steve Nesius/Reuters By any sensible measure, this was a race Starlink could not lose. Elon Musk’s satellite broadband service has more than 10 000 satellites in orbit and millions of customers…
People pass by The Spheres in downtown Seattle, Washington, on June 25, 2025. Juan Mabromata | AFP | Getty Images On an early morning in January, Jake Linsley woke up to a text from Amazon that was lighting up his phone. “I thought it was saying, ‘Your package is delayed,’” Linsley said in an interview….
Takealot Group CEO Frederik Zietsman Takealot Group is not treating Amazon’s arrival in South Africa as a threat to be survived so much as a contest just getting under way. “We’ve studied enough global scenarios to realise that with the launch of [Amazon Prime], it’s not the end of the game, it’s the start of…
Eligible Vodacom customers will receive Amazon Prime through selected plans. Vodacom South Africa has expanded its partnership with Amazon South Africa, making Amazon Prime available to eligible customers, extending its existing collaboration beyond video streaming to include shopping, delivery and gaming benefits. This, after the mobile operator introduced Amazon’s Prime Video to SA in 2020…
Vodacom South Africa has partnered with Amazon to offer full Amazon Prime membership to its post-paid and home connectivity customers, deepening a relationship that until now had been limited to Prime Video. The move comes in the same week as Amazon’s first local Prime Day event. The deal extends Prime’s full benefit set – unlimited…
Vodacom South Africa has dramatically deepened its relationship with Amazon, expanding a tie-up that was previously limited to Prime Video. Announcing the deal on Wednesday, the operator will now offer the full suite of Amazon Prime benefits to its post-paid and home connectivity customers, timed alongside Amazon’s first local Prime Day event. Read: Samsung Galaxy…
SpaceX shares rose 3% in premarket trading on Wednesday, as the Elon Musk-led company extended a remarkable rally that’s seen the stock surge around 62% since a blockbuster IPO on Friday. Consistent gains for SpaceX this week pushed its market cap above Amazon on Tuesday, and it briefly surpassed Microsoft to become the fourth-largest company…
