Apple may be sharpening the focus of its long-in-development electric car. Bloomberg sources claim Apple is now shifting its attention to a fully self-driving car, not just a more conventional vehicle with semi-autonomous features. New project leader Kevin Lynch wants the very first model to drive itself, the insiders said. The company is reportedly speeding up its plans to match. Where...
Day: <span>19 November 2021</span>
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Shoprite Launched new Low-cost Bank Account for its Customers
The Shoprite Group, the country’s largest retailer has launched a basic transactional bank account which can be linked to its Xtra Savings rewards cards. With more than 20 million of these in issue across the Checkers and Shoprite brands, customers need only register for the Money Market Account to enable banking on their existing cards....
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Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank Increases Repo to 3.75%
South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago has announced that the repo rate will increase by 25 basis points to 3.75%. He made the announcement on Thursday afternoon at a press briefing. Kganyago said it was a difficult decision: “Three members of the committee preferred an increase and two members preferred it unchanged.” He said...
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LinkedIn former executive Joann Wu joins Uber as VP of Product Design
LinkedIn former executive Joann Wu is moving to Uber as VP of product design starting January 3, where she’ll report to Chief Product Officer Sundeep Jain. Wu spend almost a decade working at LinkedIn as ser experience and product design. In her recent interview with TechCrunch, she said as a longtime user of both Uber...
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Facebook is Testing new Feature that Allows Users to See less content from Pages & Groups
Creating a safe space is important in the world we living and most importantly in the tech community. Meta’s Facebook is testing a new feature “News Feed preferences” that would help the social media users to set out the content they want to see, from the people, groups, pages, and more. Often the News Feed...
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MTN plans to Lease back and Sell some of its SA Towers Assets
The South African mobile operator MTN Group said on Wednesday it will sell and leaseback more than 5,000 towers in South Africa to London-based IHS Towers for R6.4bn ($412m) to help lower costs. MTN, with 277.3 million subscribers across 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East, is in the middle of a R25bn divestment...
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Opinion | Your Brand Deserves a worthy Investment, not a Freebie writes Tshepiso Seopa
If you walked into a private doctor’s consultation room or an accountant’s firm demanding free services, I guarantee that you will not get assistance. For some reason, companies and individuals seem to think that it is perfectly fine for them to tell brand communications experts to work for free. It’s mind-boggling that one thinks that...