BMC Software is working with advisers to weigh a sale, according to people familiar with the matter, five years after Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital took it private in a $6.9bn deal. The IT management provider has drawn
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From the spears hurled by Romans to the missiles launched by fighter pilots, the weapons humans use to kill each other have always been subject to improvement. Militaries seek to make each one ever-more lethal and
Home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba says the new automated biometric identification system (Abis) project will help integrate all systems, inside and outside government, to offer a single source for biometric
Tencent Holdings surged after delivering record profit that topped analyst estimates, calming investors who’d braced for a big hit to margins. The stock climbed as much as 7.1% in Hong Kong, its biggest
Microsoft is planning to release a line of lower-cost Surface tablets as soon as the second half of 2018, seeking a hit in a market for cheaper devices that Apple dominates with the iPad, according to people familiar
Institutional investors haven’t been this sceptical about Apple since at least the financial crisis. They reduced their holdings in the iPhone maker by about 153m shares in the first three months of the year, an analysis
Tencent Holdings, in which JSE-listed Naspers holds a 31.2% stake, posted first-quarter profit that blew past analysts’ estimates, bolstered by mobile game blockbusters like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao is leaving after a decade of retreating from aggressive global growth in favour of the European market, handing the reins to company veteran Nick Read. Colao, 56, will depart from the
While the world waits to see whether North Korea will agree to dismantle part of its nuclear arsenal in return for a rapprochement with the US, Washington appears to be planning a unilateral disarmament on trade
US President Donald Trump’s conciliatory move to help Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE stoked bipartisan condemnation in Washington on Monday, as lawmakers warned the US president’s