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Bitcoin fell sharply on Monday after surging to its latest record high a day earlier as a selloff in global equities curbed risk appetite.

Many consumers have taken to doing their shopping online and adopted new trading habits. This trend has seen a rise in the use of delivery pick-up points.

Bitcoin touched a market capitalisation of US$1-trillion as it hit yet another record high on Friday, countering analyst warnings that it is an “economic side show”.

Tarsus Technology Group, the ICT distributor that is currently the subject of a takeover bid by Alviva Technology Holdings – the parent of Axiz and Pinnacle – has appointed Anton Herbst as its new CEO.

Whenever Naspers and Prosus management address any of their stakeholders, somebody will ask what they’re doing to address the discount of the Naspers share price to its underlying net asset value.

WhatsApp will go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update but will allow users to read it at “their own pace” and will also display a banner providing additional information.

Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for the newest iPhones, an accessory that would wirelessly charge the handset and provide the company with another potentially lucrative add-on product.

Naspers and Prosus CEO Bob van Dijk does not expect Amazon.com to enter South Africa’s e-commerce sector “any time soon” given the “really good job” being done by Naspers subsidiary Takealot.com.

Five criminals, who were found guilty on 50 counts of copper cable theft involving infrastructure owned by Telkom and Eskom, have been sentenced to a combined 1 250 years in jail.

Apple is looking to start work on sixth-generation cellular connectivity, indicating it wants to be a leader in the technology rather than relying on other companies.