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A US court has moved to dismiss a lawsuit brought against MTN Group, in which it’s alleged the operator paid protection money to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Ethiopia will reopen bidding for its second telecommunications operator licence this month, two senior government officials said on Monday, including the right to operate mobile financial services.
Huge Group’s efforts to acquire software services group Adapt IT appears to be all over bar the shouting. This after shareholders representing just 1.9% of Adapt IT shares accepted its offer.
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Spotify has reached 100 million paid subscribers, a first for any music service, adding more customers in the latest quarter than analysts expected and boosting confidence the company has lots of room to grow.
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Uber Technologies is seeking to raise as much as $9-billion in an initial public offering that could give the ride-hailing giant a market valuation of as much as $84-billion.
Excitement surges through a school hall set in the vast SA outback as rows of children roar “S-K-A” on a chilly winter morning. The shout-out is for the world’s most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, to be built 80km from Carnarvon along a dirt road that winds through scrubby, dry farmland into isolation
The sleepy SA town of Carnarvon has more churches than ATMs, but science is breathing new life into the far-flung farming centre. The former 19th-century mission station is the closest town to a science and astronomy hub that is forming in the arid central Karoo region where the Square Kilometre Array
