Independent tower operator Helios Towers said on Friday that one of its South African subsidiaries, HTSA Towers, has agreed to buy 65 wireless telecommunications sites from Eagle Towers SA.
Hon Hai Precision Industry’s profit plunged by the most on record after the coronavirus disrupted its China production and walloped global smartphone demand.
Net1, the company that used to manage the payment of social grants in South Africa, has appointed former Telkom and Eskom chairman Jabu Mabuza as chairman-designate of its board.
The world’s biggest contract chip maker said it plans to build a $12-billion factory in the US in an apparent win for the Trump administration’s efforts to wrestle global tech supply chains back from China.
China is ready to put US companies in an “unreliable entity list” as part of countermeasures against Washington’s move to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies, the Global Times reported on Friday.
Apple has acquired NextVR, a start-up that provides sports and other content for virtual-reality headsets. The acquisition may help Apple’s development of VR and AR headsets with accompanying software and content.
One of China’s best-performing stocks so far in 2020 is a little-known server maker that last year abruptly joined the same US blacklist that threatens Huawei Technologies’ survival.
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