Comcast’s Sky has agreed to buy the broadcast channels and streaming service of Britain’s ITV for £1.6 billion (R34.6-billion), creating a British champion with the scale to compete with global players like Netflix, Amazon and Disney. Sky CEO Dana Strong said the deal, announced on Monday, was a “defining moment”, one of the biggest in…
Stellenbosch-based Paymenow has announced a merger with Johannesburg’s PayCurve, establishing what the entities describe as South Africa’s first fully integrated employee financial wellness platform. The combined business will operate under the Paymenow brand, consolidating earned wage access (EWA) and proactive debt intervention into a single service offering. Read: GameStop explores massive acquisition of eBay to…
The firm behind President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform is merging with a Google-backed energy company in a deal valued at more than $6bn (£4.4bn). Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and TAE Technologies announced the plans on Thursday in a joint statement, which said the move would “create one of the world’s first publicly…
A major announcement from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit confirms that Google is finally merging its Android and ChromeOS platforms to create a new operating system for computers. Read: Xiaomi launches 17 series with secondary displays and huge batteries Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon revealed the plan, and Sameer Samat, Google’s head of the Android Ecosystem, provided a…
Insaaf Daniels, head of human capital at redPanda Software. Your next job interview could be with a bot. You’ll be sent a video conference invite just like any other meeting, but instead of chatting to someone from HR or recruitment, you’ll interact with a computer that asks questions and records your responses. There won’t be…
London-listed miner Anglo American and Canada’s Teck Resources plan to merge, marking the sector’s second-biggest mergers and acquisitions deal ever and forging a new global copper-focused heavyweight. Under the proposed deal, which will require regulatory approvals and was announced on Tuesday, Anglo American shareholders will own 62.4 percent of the new company, Anglo Teck, while…
