Search / Tencent
China takes next step in currency globalisation
China's gradual internationalisation of its currency will shift to its next leg on Monday when about two dozen Chinese companies start trading in their home currency in Hong Kong's stock market....Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA companies caught in Russia-Ukraine crossfire
JSE counters with even a remote connection to the Russia-Ukraine conflict have taken a pounding in the past week as gun-shy investors decided they were not worth the risk.Leading the fall was ...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
High-speed trains to go even faster
China's high-speed railway system is setting more ambitious goals for domestically developed Fuxing bullet trains, Lu Dongfu, head of the national railway operator, said on Thursday.Coinciding...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Naspers to raise up to $11bn by trimming Tencent stake
Naspers NPNJn.J is cutting its stake in lucrative Chinese investment Tencent 0700.HK by as much as 2 percent in a deal that could net the South African media and e-commerce group up to $11 billion....Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 12:46hrs | | by Reuters
Meet Southern Africa's billionaires
There are 11 billionaires from the Sadc region on this year's Forbes list of 25 billionaires on the African continent.The list, released in March, showed that Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania is sti...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
DStv parent eyes Zimbabwe mobile firms
Africa's most valuable company, Naspers which owns MultiChoice, has set its eyes on partnering with Zimbabwe's mobile telephone firms to boost its video-on-demand business.This comes as th...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 14:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No jokes in English from me'
Rising comedian Baba Tencen, who shared the stage with popular Ugandan comedian Anne Kansiime at the Harare International Conference last night, says he will never incorporate English into his comedy ...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wichnell Chivayo, Carl Joshua Ncube fight benefits Baba Tencen
South Africa-based Zimbabwean comedian Baba Tencen has taken to Facebook to thank controversial businessman, Wicknell Chivayo for dangling R100 000 before him on Friday.Chivayo on Friday poste...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Facebook to buy WhatsApp
Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in a landmark deal that places the world's largest social network closer to the heart of mobile ...Published: 20 Feb 2014 at 06:32hrs | | by Reuters
'What is that in your hand?' asks Strive Masiyiwa
Exodus 4:2"And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod."When Moses encountered God in the desert, The Lord asked him a simple question, "what is that in your h...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 12:34hrs | 22 | by Strive Masiyiwa
Load More Stories