Alphabet shares rose 1.2% in pre-market trading on Thursday, following a flurry of positive analyst commentary on the Google parent’s 2020 prospects.
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The World Bank is the first key institution to cut its economic growth forecast for South Africa to below 1% for 2020 due to electricity supply concerns.
Fully autonomous cars will not be on public roads for at least 10 years despite claims from some manufacturers they will be available sooner, BlackBerry’s chief executive has said.
A new video streaming service designed only for mobile phones will launch later this year, with shorter programmes and full-screen framing whichever way a user holds their phone.
Brazil will not accept any pressure from the US over whether to allow the Chinese company Huawei to bid for its 5G network, said Marcos Pontes, the minister for communications.
Twitter is adding another safety control to help curb abuse and harassment on its social network. Users will soon be able to limit the group of people that can reply to their tweets.
Eskom lost additional generation capacity on Wednesday night and said it would therefore implement state-2 rotational blackouts throughout Thursday and into Friday.
The energy minister’s reluctance to fast-track renewable power projects could prolong the electricity shortages, which have caused the economy to stagnate and sapped investor confidence.
Eskom, South Africa’s biggest polluter, said it will slash emissions of three major pollutants by 2035 while it asks for exemptions to incoming standards to avoid as much as R37-billion in expenditure.
Whether a planned reduction in rewards for mining bitcoin will boost prices or it’s already factored in is dominating discussions across mediums from Twitter to analyst reports.