The weak South African economy, coupled with consumers “optimising” promotional data, has led to a surprise decline in Vodacom’s service revenue in the quarter ended 31 December 2019.

Huawei’s consumer chief has dismissed US “political forces” and attempts to crimp the company’s growth, saying sales of smartphones and other devices surged by about 50% to a record $52-billion in 2018.

Internet ride-hailing company Uber has introduced a “Lite” version of its smartphone app in South Africa, aimed at users in bandwidth-constrained environments.

MTN Uganda is in talks to sell an unspecified stake to the state-run National Social Security Fund that would widen local shareholding currently at only 5%, President Yoweri Museveni’s office said.

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Chinese technology giant Huawei has announced plans for a next-generation smartphone that will use its own technology instead of US components, manoeuvring to gain a competitive edge and sidestep complaints it is a security risk.

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An online tool designed to combat fake news, used by Microsoft’s Edge Web browser, is warning users not to trust the MailOnline website.

Vodacom Group fell the most in more than two months after it reported falling sales in South Africa, where a slower than expected economic recovery dampened consumer spending.

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been blocked in China, rendering yet another Western Internet service inaccessible to the world’s largest online population.