Ride-hailing service Taxify – a direct competitor to market leader Uber – said on Thursday that it is now directly integrated with Google’s Maps app in South Africa.

South Africa can complete the migration from analogue to digital television within a year, provided government adopts a mix of satellite and terrestrial broadcasting, according to eMedia Holdings CEO Andre van der Veen.

Essential Products, the consumer electronics start-up run by Android creator Andy Rubin, is putting most projects aside to focus on development of a new kind of phone.

Naspers, whose share price has fallen in tandem with affiliate Tencent, in which it holds a 31.2% stake, offers “significant value at these levels”, Ashburton Investments said on Wednesday.

Less than a year after a severe data breach affected data centre provider Hetzner, the company has disclosed to its clients that their details may have been compromised in another “security incident”.

Google showed off a pair of new Pixel phones, a tablet computer and a speaker with a screen in a deluge of new products aimed at competing with the latest gadgets from big technology rivals.