Tencent, one of Asia’s biggest companies, is little known beyond the tech world. But its WeChat super app has more than a billion users worldwide.

Index heavyweight Naspers dropped 4.4% after US President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders prohibiting US residents from doing business with the Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat apps.

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A pact between South Africa’s government, labour unions and business to cut Eskom’s debt won’t include a pledge to use the pensions of state workers as had been initially proposed.

Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth passed $100-billion for the first time on Thursday after Facebook hit a record on optimism about the release of its TikTok competitor Reels.

Washington’s plan to ban certain technologies of Chinese origin is a sign of “madness” in US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, China’s state-backed tabloid Global Times wrote in an editorial on Thursday.

The Trump administration’s move to ban US residents from doing business with Tencent’s WeChat app rippled through Chinese markets, erasing $46-billion from the Internet giant’s market value.

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Liquid Telecom South Africa has made no decision yet about retrenching staff but has begun a consultation process with employees that could – and probably will – lead to job losses in the months ahead.

MTN Group will exit its operations in the Middle East to become an Africa-only-focused telecommunications operator, CEO Rob Shuter announced on Thursday.