Salesforce.com battled Microsoft for LinkedIn deep into the negotiating process, forcing the world’s largest software maker to boost its offer to buy the professional networking service just days before the US$26bn deal was announced.
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The different factions of the music industry – artists, labels, agents and publishers – rarely agree on anything. But on one thing they are united: streaming services are the future. Apple Music, Spotify and their rivals allow users to listen
BMW is teaming up with chip maker Intel and camera software company Mobileye to bring self-driving cars to the road by 2021, becoming the first major automaker to set a specific date to produce a fully autonomous vehicle. The technology
MTN has dished out R5,2m worth of shares to the CEO of its South African unit, Mteto Nyati. In a statement to shareholders on Friday, MTN said it had provided Nyati with an “off-market award of shares” as part of its performance share plan
US regulators are investigating a fatal accident involving a Tesla Motors sedan that was driving on autopilot, drawing scrutiny to a key technology the electric-vehicle maker is betting on for the future of self-driving cars. The crash
Motorists driving past the SABC office in Sea Point hooted in support for around 100 picketing journalists, shouting: “Hlaudi must go!” Dressed mostly in black, they held up boards stating “Not in our name”, a comment on recent
Apple is in preliminary talks to buy Tidal, the streaming music service largely owned by musician Jay Z, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the discussions. The newspaper said the talks may not result
Internet giant Google is the most desirable employer globally, according to survey by more than 267 000 millennials. Universum’s Talent Survey asked business and engineering/IT students in the world’s 12 largest economies to choose their
Facebook increased the number of regular users in its three biggest African markets by 13% in the nine months through to end-March as the US social network intensified growth plans on the continent. The company added 4m account
The rand may extend its best monthly rally since March after South Africa’s approval of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s takeover of SABMiller was seen triggering foreign-exchange inflows and as international investors continue to