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Bitcoin has broken the $17 000 level for the first time since just after the burst of the cryptocurrency bubble almost three years ago.

South African fibre broadband provider MetroFibre Networx has raised R1.5-billion in a new funding round led by infrastructure-focused private equity fund manager African Infrastructure Investment Managers.

Three years ago, bitcoin’s historic surge dominated dinner conversations. This year, the cryptocurrency is in the midst of another notable rally and yet almost no one’s talking about it.

An Austrian privacy advocacy group drew a strongly critical response from Apple after it said an online tracking tool used in its devices breached European law.

Vodacom South Africa enjoyed a 64% year-on-year increase in data consumed by “smart devices”, including smartphones and tablets, driven by the Covid-19 lockdown, parent Vodacom Group said on Monday.

A joint venture led by technology group Gijima was disqualified from road management tenders because it drafted and dated a document on one day and had it validated by a commissioner of oaths the next.

Vodacom Group hiked its interim dividend by 9.2% to R4.15/share (R3.80 previously) on strong headline earnings growth in the first half of its 2021 financial year and a dividend receipt from Kenya’s Safaricom.

Prosus, the giant investor in online classifieds, food delivery and payments, expects to report a 16.9% to 22.7% growth in earnings per share for the six months to the end of September, it said on Monday.

Apple’s ad tracking is the target of two complaints to Spanish and German authorities by a privacy advocate whose earlier legal battles are forcing Facebook to change the way it transfers data.

Vodacom Group reinstated growth targets and said it has the financial strength to take part in a long-awaited auction of broadband spectrum in South Africa.