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    Dead Facebook account holders could outnumber living in 50 years

    By Martyn Landi28 April 2019

    The number of dead Facebook account holders could outnumber the living within 50 years, new research has claimed.

    Amazon spent $1.7-billion on video and music in first quarter

    By Agency Staff28 April 2019

    Amazon.com spent $1.7 billion on video and music content during the first quarter of this year, the first time the technology and retail giant has itemised the growing cost of providing streaming services to consumers.

    Despite looming IPO, Uber’s best days may already be behind it

    By Shira Ovide26 April 2019

    Remember this moment. Early 2019 may have showed us the ceiling for the business of selling car rides at the tap of a smartphone.

    Uber aims for $84-billion valuation in year’s largest IPO

    By Agency Staff26 April 2019

    Uber Technologies is seeking to raise as much as $9-billion in an initial public offering that could give the ride-hailing giant a market valuation of as much as $84-billion.

    Chipzilla feels pain of falling data centre demand

    By Agency Staff26 April 2019

    Intel, which had been the biggest beneficiary of a years-long, multibillion-dollar spending spree by the cloud computing industry, signalled an end to an expansion that drove record revenue and profit.

    Tether fraud probe sends cryptocurrencies tumbling

    By Agency Staff26 April 2019

    Cryptocurrencies tumbled after New York’s attorney general cast fresh doubt on the stability of tether, a virtual currency that plays a central role in trading on crypto exchanges around the world.

    Amazon’s high-octane growth is gone. Get used to it

    By Shira Ovide26 April 2019

    Amazon.com confirmed on Thursday what has been a slowly evolving financial picture. It is now a company that is more profitable than it has been in years, but the supercharged growth is gone.

    Cosatu prepared to discuss Eskom job cuts

    By Agency Staff26 April 2019

    South Africa’s largest labour federation is prepared to discuss reducing workers at the nation’s power utility if it’s given proof of overstaffing and that job cuts would save Eskom.

    No, Mr Patel, market failure is not to blame for high data prices

    By Duncan McLeod25 April 2019

    Ah, that old trope, “market failure”. Economic development minister Ebrahim Patel trotted it out several times this week while unveiling the Competition Commission’s provisional findings into the data service market.

    MTN says CompCom used old stats in data inquiry report

    By Staff Reporter25 April 2019

    MTN has accused the Competition Commission of using outdated information in preparing its report on the data services market in South Africa.

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