Amazon.com will hire 100 000 people – and give US workers a $2/hour raise in an effort to meet crushing demand from customers placing online orders for household essentials.
Author: Agency Staff
The South African Reserve Bank has warned the public that it is not withdrawing banknotes and coins due to the coronavirus outbreak.
South Africa’s benchmark stock index plummeted to the lowest in more than six years after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a national state of disaster over the coronavirus outbreak.
Eskom contracts with five international companies will be scrutinised by South African state investigators as part of a widening probe into corruption at the debt-laden state-owned utility.
Naspers affiliate Tencent picked up millions of new gamers during the global coronavirus outbreak. That helped the company gain $25-billion of market value up to 5 March, before a global market rout torpedoed the stock.
Airbnb has rolled out a full refund policy for reservations across the globe, including South Africa, in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Late on Friday, co-founder and original CEO Bill Gates, the man most closely identified with Microsoft, said he will leave the company’s board to devote more time to his charitable foundation
SpaceX aborted a planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday after an abort command occurred at the point where the engines were to ignite.
Bitcoin is proving to be no haven asset amid the current global market meltdown. The price of the largest digital currency continued to swing wildly as the latest rout showed no signs of slowing down.
South Africa’s benchmark stock index plunged the most since the market crash of October 1997 as reaction to US measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus accelerated the sell-off.