Square, the payments firm of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will purchase “buy now, pay later” pioneer Afterpay for $29-billion, creating a global transactions giant.
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State logistics firm will lift the force majeure it declared at its container terminals from Monday, after a cyberattack, believed to be a ransomware incident, hampered operations.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has laid out a funding plan to help the company, which generates the bulk of South Africa’s power from coal, transition away from the use of the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Shares of Pinterest fell about 20% in pre-market trading on Friday after the company warned of slowing user growth in the US, its largest market.
The movie-goers who used to throng the cinemas of Johannesburg’s Sandton City shopping centre have, since the pandemic, watched the latest releases from a big screen in a rooftop car park.
Ethereum is about to undergo a technical adjustment that will significantly alter the way transactions are processed, as well as reduce the supply of the ether token and sharply boost its price.
Google has asked a judge hearing the US justice department’s antitrust lawsuit against the search giant to compel Microsoft to turn over documents, saying it has failed to comply with a subpoena.
Elon Musk’s brain-chip start-up, Neuralink, has raised US$205-million in a funding round led by Dubai-based venture capital firm Vy Capital, with participation from Google Ventures.
The International Space Station was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost.
Transnet appears to have been targeted with a strain of ransomware that cybersecurity experts have linked to a series of high-profile data breaches likely carried out by crime gangs from Eastern Europe and Russia.