Airbnb has lined up $1-billion in debt, adding to last week’s same-size haul and boosting a financial cushion it can use to grow and pay bills as the global coronavirus pandemic crushes demand for travel.

Government has set up a hi-tech monitoring and evaluation platform in an effort to ramp up state capacity to monitor and respond to “fake news” proliferating during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Vodacom said on Wednesday that it has “significantly accelerated” investment in its network in recent weeks to cater for growing demand for mobile and fixed Internet access during the lockdown.

Government is holding firm in a pay dispute with labour unions that represent more than 1.2 million workers, denying them promised increases.

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The Competition Commission has firmed up an agreement with Telkom that will see the operator’s longstanding wholesale IP Connect product replaced with a completely new wholesale offering.

South African Airways has been denied any further funding by government as the national carrier looks for ways to recover from the coronavirus crisis and business rescue.

That the US’s biggest companies are technology firms whose businesses stood up to lockdowns has been good news for its stock market. For the Nasdaq 100 Index, it’s been salvation.

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