Google said it would make changes to its global advertising business to ensure it did not abuse its dominance, bowing to antitrust pressure for the first time in a landmark settlement with authorities.

Nigerian telecommunications firms blocked access to Twitter following a regulatory directive aimed at suspending the US social media giant indefinitely.

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, will send a bill to congress next week to make bitcoin legal tender in the Central American nation.

Jeff Bezos will go to space next month when his company, Blue Origin, launches its first passenger-carrying mission.

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Apple will debut major software updates for the iPhone and iPad at its developers conference on Monday to an audience that has grown increasingly critical of the company’s App Store policies.

Volaris Group, the Canadian firm pursuing JSE-listed software services group Adapt IT, has sweetened its all-cash offer to R7/share in an effort to see off a rival bid from South Africa’s Huge Group.

Johannesburg plans to seek at least R3.8-billion in investment in solar and gas-fired power as well as battery storage to improve electricity supply.

Although Skype, launched in 2003, has been available nine years longer than Zoom and is owned by tech titan Microsoft, Zoom has effectively left it in its dust.