Marilize Redelinghuys, head of retail modernisation, Mr Price Group. (Photograph: Lesley Moyo) Mr Price Group, a JSE-listed, cash-based omnichannel retailer, has reduced its application landscape from nearly 400 systems to 103 over the past five years as part of a broader technology modernisation programme aimed at supporting growth while maintaining operational efficiency. This is according…
Kosovo, a small majority-Muslim country in the Balkans, has signed up to United States President Donald Trump’s controversial Board of Peace and the planned International Stabilization Force for Gaza, after Israel gave its approval. The proposed force is, in theory, expected to help maintain security, support demilitarisation and train Palestinian police, though its mandate and composition…
MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman MTN South Africa is rebuilding the way it prices wholesale access for mobile virtual network operators and will now sell capacity more cheaply at deliberately lower quality, giving MVNOs a trade-off between price and performance they did not previously have. CEO Ferdi Moolman told TechCentral in an interview that…
An Iranian government spokeswoman acknowledged Friday that the country is facing economic pressure and shortages, insisting that officials do not deny the difficulties confronting regular Iranians. Fatemeh Mohajerani, speaking at the opening of a 64-bed hospital in the western Ilam Province, said U.S. sanctions had impacted the implementation of infrastructure projects across the country. “The…
In this week’s Tech Tuesday segment on Smile 90.4FM we discuss the Ferrari Luce and the remarkable price the first unit fetched at an auction. Read more on Bandwidth Blog
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks to members of the media following the company’s “Japan AI Ecosystem” reception in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia plans to hike prices for some of its largest customers, Bloomberg News reported Saturday. The chipmaker is set…
A large executive sedan has to do two things. It has to be comfortable, and it has to be comfortable competing for road space with the ubiquitous SUV. At R1.8-million for the ES90 Ultra I drove, the stakes are higher still, because it also has to justify the asking price. It does. The ES90 is,…
OpenAI’s latest announcement introduces “fast mode” for GPT-5.6 Sol. ChatGPT developer OpenAI has cut the cost of its GPT-5.6 artificial intelligence (AI) models by as much as 80% and introduced faster processing for its premium model. This, as competition intensifies among AI providers to make enterprise AI more affordable and scalable. The company announced yesterday…
SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. Gabriel V Cardenas/Reuters SpaceX shares dropped below their initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday before closing just above that level, just over a month after the rockets-to-AI firm completed the biggest IPO ever and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The shares slid 0.6% to…
Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry’s data centre buildout. The move does not affect Apple’s main cash cow, the iPhone. But it would take starting price of the Neo — its lowest priced laptop…
