Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has boosted its bid for Sky, raising the stakes for Comcast to retaliate in a battle for control of Britain’s top pay-television company. Fox offered £14/share to value Sky at £24.5-billion
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The Donald Trump administration said ZTE took another step toward ending a US ban on the company doing business with American suppliers, a key Chinese government demand amid an escalating trade
Barclays Africa Group is getting a revamp, ending Barclays’ 100-year history on the continent. The lender on Wednesday ditches the name of its former parent to revert to Absa Group after the British bank sold down
The rand’s comeback against the dollar this month will run out of steam as US rates rise and the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies weighs on global growth, according to the most accurate
Bitcoin is headed for the biggest drop in more than two weeks, as a rebound that saw the digital asset bounce almost 18% from the year’s lows ran out of steam. The largest cryptocurrency dropped as much as
Venture capitalists are spending cash at levels not seen since the dot-com era, and they’re raising money at a pace to match. Last quarter, VCs spent $27.3-billion in the US, according to a report set
MTN Group’s Nigeria offices are being picketed by the country’s biggest group of unions over an alleged refusal to allow staff to form workers’ groups, a claim denied by the continent’s largest wireless carrier
Microsoft is going for the low-end of the personal computing market with a smaller, cheaper Surface Go tablet that takes on Apple’s cheapest iPads. The Surface Go has a 10-inch screen, about the same size as the
New homes built in the UK will soon be required to have charge points for electric vehicles, according to the government’s Road to Zero report released Monday. “It is our intention that all new homes, where appropriate
McKinsey & Co has apologised to South Africa again over how business was handled with state-owned Eskom, saying it overcharged the utility and was slow to admit wrongdoing. The consulting firm admitted