No drone deliveries for Amazon customers in South Africa
Amazon Prime has launched in South Africa, but there are currently no plans to roll out the company’s Prime Air delivery service to local customers.
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Amazon taking the fight to Takealot in South Africa
While it has kept its performance a closely-guarded secret, there are many indications from third parties that Amazon.co.za is experiencing impressive growth and is becoming a more serious challenger to Takealot.
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Big change to Amazon deliveries in South Africa
Amazon’s South African marketplace has ended its long-running free Standard delivery promotion.
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Risks beneath the index and the opportunities beyond
Passive strategies generally track indices weighted by market capitalisation, so the larger a company becomes, the larger its index weight.
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American firm Seagate wants to be the data storage leader for South Africa’s data centres
Seagate dominates in the world’s production of HDDs, a tech that accounts for 42.6% of South Africa’s data centre storage market.
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Amazon launches AI productivity software for office workers
Targeting $300 billion software market with agent-driven tools, intensifying competition with Microsoft and Salesforce.
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Spekboom restoration at centre of $120m World Bank climate bond
Climate finance is often discussed in abstractions such as bonds, instruments and capital flows. But in the Eastern Cape, the story starts with a plant. Spekboom, a hardy, unassuming succulent shrub, has become one of the country’s most quietly powerful climate allies. Native to the Albany thicket biome, it can lock away remarkable amounts of…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has competition
The Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin achieved a major milestone in its quest to rival SpaceX.
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The tug of war between hybrid and traditional workplace trends
It’s deeper than choosing to work at the office or at home. Can leaders make both work?
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You can now buy crypto, stocks, ETFs and bonds on a single platform
Regulation of the crypto space has cleared out many of the bad players. It’s also opened up opportunities for financial advisors to empower their clients.