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Bitcoin smashed through $20 000 for the first time on Wednesday, its highest ever, amid increased institutional and corporate interest.

MultiChoice Group has another rival streaming service to its new DStv Ultra personal video recorder and satellite decoder – this time it’s Amazon Web Services.

The department of communications & digital technologies has embarked on a process to merge some of its entities in line with a plan to rationalise state entities.

Bitcoin may have grabbed the headlines in 2020 with a price gain of 160% for the year to date, but this pales alongside its smaller brother, ethereum, which has clocked up a gain of 344% so far.

Services from Google were experiencing widespread outages around the world on Monday, preventing people from accessing Gmail, YouTube and other products.

Ahead of the year-end break, Vodacom has announced it has greatly expanded its 5G coverage in the holiday mecca that is KwaZulu-Natal.

Eskom is headed for another full-year a loss as fundamental problems remain even after making a profit of R83-million in the first half of its fiscal year.

South African industry is already starting to wind down for the Christmas holidays, yet Eskom can’t keep the lights on — on a weekend!

Though Amazon.com is staying mum for now on details of its planned “utility-scale” renewable energy project in South Africa, it has emerged that it will source the power from a giant solar farm to be built in the Northern Cape.

ABB will repay R1.56-billion to Eskom, the latest international company to return money after being ensnared in corruption probes in the country.