Mercedes-Benz plans to invest more than €40-billion by 2030 to be ready to take on Tesla in an all-electric car market, but warned the shift in technology would lead to job cuts.
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National excess deaths, seen as a more precise way of measuring total fatalities from the coronavirus, rose to 203 000 during the coronavirus pandemic, the South African Medical Research Council said.
Tesla will most likely restart accepting bitcoin as payments once it conducts due diligence on the amount of renewable energy used to mine the currency, CEO Elon Musk said.
Business software maker Salesforce.com has closed its purchase of Slack Technologies, a massive bet that Slack’s workplace app will become popular for collaborations within and between companies.
Pfizer and BioNTech have struck a deal for South Africa’s Biovac Institute to help manufacture around 100 million doses a year of their Covid-19 vaccine for the African Union.
Some analysts have called Netflix’s move into gaming it a sensible move to keep users’ eyes on screens. But they worry it would take significant time and investment to pay off.
A week of deadly riots could cost South Africa about R50-billion in lost output, while 150 000 jobs have been placed at risk, the presidency said.
Netflix will make a deeper dive into videogames as the movie and TV streaming service projects weak subscriber growth amid growing competition and the lifting of pandemic restrictions.
Apple will not introduce an updated version of its smaller iPhone mini smartphone next year, after it failed to become popular among consumers, Nikkei reported on Wednesday.
The European Union is proposing to prohibit anonymous cryptocurrency transactions as part of a broader plan to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.