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A surprise chat between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on new audio-based social network Clubhouse has helped propel the app to the top of the start-up charts.
Kia Motors jumped as much as 14.5% after a local media report that Apple will invest the equivalent of $3.6-billion as part of a collaboration with the Korean car maker on making electric vehicles.
A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Texas on Tuesday, in a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous test rocket.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO and become executive chairman, naming the head of its lucrative cloud computing division as successor.
MTN Group has appointed Citigroup and Standard Bank Group to advise on a sale and leaseback of some of the carrier’s South African telecommunications towers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Teraco Data Environments has concluded its biggest fundraising round to date, securing R2.5-billion from Absa and other lenders that will be used to build a giant new data centre east of Johannesburg.
ByteDance is suing Tencent Holdings over alleged monopolies in its WeChat and QQ platforms, escalating a feud between the leading Chinese social media giants.
Ford will plough over $1-billion into a plant in South Africa – its biggest-ever investment in the country – as the car maker scales back in other regions including Brazil and Europe.
Vodacom South Africa boosted investment in its network by 12.3% year on year in the quarter ended 31 December 2020, bringing capital expenditure to R2.7-billion from R2.4-billion in the year-ago quarter.