Tertius Zitzke 4Sight Holdings has reported a sharp lift in earnings for the year to 28 February 2026 – but the JSE-listed group’s segmental data complicates the AI-led growth story it is pushing. Revenue rose 16.3% to R1.16-billion, operating profit climbed 45.8% to R71.7-million and headline earnings per share grew 46.1% to 10.732c. Basic EPS…
A few months into its global release, the Samsung Galaxy S26 series is outperforming original market projections, though early data suggests that a higher entry price may be tempering its long-term momentum. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: AI trends shifting! According to a newly released report from Counterpoint Research, global sales for…
People walk past a sign for Novo Nordisk’s annual general meeting at the entrance to the venue in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 26, 2026. Tom Little | Reuters Novo Nordisk hiked its annual profit guidance on Wednesday, as the drugmaker said its Wegovy weight-loss pill performed better than expected in the first three months of the…
A PopMart Labubu The Monsters doll hangs from an influencer’s handbag during a press preview outside an AliExpress pop-up store in London, Britain, Nov. 11, 2025. Isabel Infantes | Reuters Pop Mart shares lost more than a fifth of their value on Wednesday, as concerns over the sustainability of the company’s Labubu plushies-driven growth overshadowed…
Rimini Street Wins Multiple Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service Excellence Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced wins in three categories of the 20th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. This…
U.S. Treasury yields fell on Tuesday after the latest retail sales report missed expectations. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield was more than 5 basis points lower at 4.145%, while the 30-year Treasury yield dropped more than 6 basis points to 4.787%. The 2-year Treasury note yield was down more than 3 basis points at 3.452%. One basis point is equivalent to…
Pick n Pay has unexpectedly warned investors that its headline loss per share for the current financial year will widen by more than 20% compared with the prior year, blaming a “highly constrained” trading environment over the critical Black Friday period that dragged down second-half performance. Its share price tanked, and was last trading down…
Shoprite Group’s Checkers Sixty60 sales have shown a steady increase. Digital commerce sales via last-mile delivery platform Sixty60 increased by 34.6%, for the six months ended 28 December. This, as the retail giant group increased merchandise sales by 7.2%, measuring approximately R136.8 billion. The Shoprite Group states the growth equates to an additional R9.2 billion…
Apple shared its latest quarterly financial results, revealing a period of unprecedented growth that CEO Tim Cook described as “simply staggering.” For the quarter ending December 27, 2025, the tech giant reported a total revenue of nearly $143.76 billion, marking the biggest quarter in the company’s history. Read: Everything we know about the upcoming iPhone…
Premium smartphone demand lifted Apple to market leadership in 2025. Global smartphone shipments grew 2% year-on-year (YOY) in 2025, driven by increasing premium phone demand and improving momentum in key emerging markets, according to preliminary estimates from Counterpoint’s market monitor. According to the report, the market sustained its growth momentum throughout 2025, primarily driven by…
