A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Texas on Tuesday, in a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous test rocket.

Tencent Holdings on Wednesday named 37 companies it had blacklisted from future contracts and said it has fired more than 100 staff over embezzlement and bribery incidents.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO and become executive chairman, naming the head of its lucrative cloud computing division as successor.

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Tarsus Technology Group CEO Miles Crisp and financial director Joanne Tanner are stepping from the technology distribution company amid a R185-million takeover bid by JSE-listed Alviva Holdings.

MTN Group has appointed Citigroup and Standard Bank Group to advise on a sale and leaseback of some of the carrier’s South African telecommunications towers, according to people familiar with the matter.

Teraco Data Environments has concluded its biggest fundraising round to date, securing R2.5-billion from Absa and other lenders that will be used to build a giant new data centre east of Johannesburg.

ByteDance is suing Tencent Holdings over alleged monopolies in its WeChat and QQ platforms, escalating a feud between the leading Chinese social media giants.