Nigeria’s ruling party has urged the government to nationalise South African companies operating in the West African nation in retaliation for xenophobic attacks on its nationals.

Facebook and Google are facing intensifying scrutiny by US state law enforcement officers with authority to impose vast fines and even break up companies that are found to have violated antitrust and privacy rules.

Apple has disputed a recent Google security report that described an iPhone malware attack as “en masse”.

There is a need to ensure broadband access for all in order to overcome social, economic and spatial inequality, finance minister Tito Mboweni said this week.

Dimension Data is at an advanced stage of talks to sell The Campus, long the site of its head office in Johannesburg, TechCentral has learnt.

Metrofile Holdings, the JSE-listed records and storage management specialist, has received an approach from an unnamed entity that wants to acquire it.

JSE-listed technology group Altron said on Friday that it has suspended three executives at its Altron Nexus subsidiary following an investigation that revealed “potential internal irregularities”.

African central banks are working to link the continent’s major cross-border payment systems as plans to create the world’s largest free-trade zone gain momentum.

Huawei has announced an updated version of its flagship P30 Pro smartphone amid ongoing questions over its use of Google’s apps and services in the future.

ProtonMail is in talks with Huawei Technologies about including its encrypted e-mail service in future mobile devices, part of the Chinese phone maker’s plan to develop an alternative to the Google ecosystem.