I have spent 28 years in African telecommunications watching operators compete for customers. The playbook has been consistent: build the network, own the spectrum and control the customer. The assumption underneath all of it is that the company with the infrastructure wins. Capitec is about to test that assumption in the fixed broadband market, and…
Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada told analysts on Tuesday that the group could not have produced its half-year numbers without the Fifa World Cup, and that it is too early to call the MultiChoice turnaround a success. That is a more cautious tone than the results document published earlier in the day,…
Debby Lawson, founder and COO of Fastizers, speaking during launch of the company’s Nibit brand. One Saturday in 2010, Gbola Lawson was knocking on the doors of small brick-and-mortar stores in Lagos – Nigeria’s megacity of roughly seventeen million people – trying to persuade shopkeepers to place cookies on their shelves. Although he held a…
Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter “T” next to the Stars and Stripes and “1776” and “2026.” Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Superman’s logo. A diamond-winged eagle carries a ruby shield and clutches an olive branch of emeralds, below a radiant “250” and atop the phrase…
Analysts say he is entering a landscape still dominated by the DMK and the AIADMK – a duopoly that mostly appears stable on paper, yet shows signs of fatigue on the ground. That, they argue, is opening space for new political experiments – and for figures like Vijay to test how far star power can…
President Trump voiced optimism on Tuesday that a peace deal will be reached with Iran, while insisting the war had already been won. “This war has been won,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office. “The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.” “We killed all their leadership,” he said…
On their way to a Super Bowl appearance last season, the Kansas City Chiefs could do no wrong in close games, posting an 12-0 record in games decided by one score or less. Yet the Chiefs entered Week 12 of this season just 5-5 and facing the possibility of having a losing record through 11…
YesWeHack, the crowdsourced security testing and vulnerability management platform, is the European Commission’s new preferred provider of bug bounty services under a cascade model. The European Union’s main executive branch has run bug bounty programs to harden open source assets used across EU servers and systems since 2019. A new tender was launched this year…
