Sid Bhatia, AVP and GM for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Dataiku. AI enablement platform Dataiku and its South African integration partner, Blue Turtle, participated in the ITWeb AI Summit 2026 and said they are determined to support local AI adoption. The companies believe South African organisations face several challenges that block AI adoption…
Shares in Blue Owl Capital tumbled almost 6% on Thursday after the private market and alternative assets manager sold $1.4 billion of loan assets held in three of its private debt funds. Blue Owl said Wednesday it had agreed the sale with four North American pension and insurance investors, with the loans changing hands at…
Jun Asakawa, Co-founder & CEO of Pale Blue (left in photo) and Yuya Nakamura, President and CEO of Axelspace Axelspace Corporation (“Axelspace”), a leading microsatellite company committed to making “Space within Your Reach,” has entered into a service agreement with Pale Blue Inc. (“Pale Blue”), a company that develops, manufactures, and sells thrusters (engines) for…
You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA’s rovers. What if there were a time machine capable of roaming Earth during its remote geological past, perhaps even going right back to its beginnings, beaming back pictures of similar quality? This is not science fiction. In remote corners of…
Artificial intelligence has created a device that turns moon dust into energy. The moon vacuum, which was unveiled on Wednesday by Blue Origin at Amazon‘s re:Invent 2025 conference in Las Vegas, was built using critical technology from startup Istari Digital. “So what it does is sucks up moon dust and it extracts the heat from…
Blue Label has achieved majority ownership of Cell C. Blue Label has finally achieved its almost decade-long goal of securing a majority stake in Cell C, South Africa’s fourth biggest mobile operator, reaching 53.57% ownership. Final approval from the Competition Tribunal concludes several regulatory hurdles for Blue Label – which is rebranding as Blu Label…
Blue Label Telecoms currently owns 49.5% of Cell C and is seeking final regulatory approval to buy an additional 4.04% stake. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) Blue Label Telecoms has started making plans to exit Cell C through a separate JSE listing, in a complex restructuring that could result in both companies being debt-free. This morning,…
Blue Label Telecoms views Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes as an “executor”. (Photograph by Nicola Mawson) JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms, rebranding to Blu Label Unlimited to amplify the market’s focus on its units as it spins Cell C out via a JSE listing, has admitted it failed in its initial execution of its purchase of…
Africa has an enormous ocean area at its disposal. There are almost 20 million square kilometres of ocean, seas and inland water that could be developed into environmentally sustainable blue economies. The G20 group of 19 of the world’s largest economies and the African Union also view the blue economy as key to developing the…
Flagship Asset Management’s Philip Short Blue Label Telecoms’ share price has plunged more than a quarter in the past two days after its annual results, published on Tuesday, appeared to disappoint investors. Philip Short of Flagship Asset Management has been particularly bullish about the prospects for Blue Label, in large part because of the emerging…
