Huawei is preparing for a 40% to 60% drop in international smartphone shipments as the Trump administration’s blacklisting hammers one of the Chinese tech giant’s most important businesses.

Bitcoin climbed past $9 000, to its highest since May 2018, as reports that Facebook is due to unveil a digital currency added to optimism.

Government is considering a R3.2-billion guarantee for the country’s cash-strapped national broadcaster to help it raise money from lenders, according to a report.

In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss the new department of communications & digital technologies – is it more of the same, or will it be the “department of action”?

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y Lee said the company will pursue investment in future businesses including 6G mobile networks and system semiconductors.

As Huawei comes under unrelenting pressure from the Trump administration, it has one advantage that the US can’t undermine: a vast, global portfolio of patents on critical technology.

Bitcoin futures may be more important than many in the market appreciate, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The merged departments of communications and telecommunications & postal services will in future be known as the department of communications & digital technologies.

Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub took home 23.9% less in the 2019 financial year after he earned significantly less from short- and long-term incentives.

Huawei is to delay the launch of its first foldable smartphone, the Mate X, saying it wants to test the device further after rival Samsung suffered issues with its own foldable phone earlier this year.