Promoted | In a positive upturn to an otherwise turbulent year, Huawei has begun Christmas early, offering a month-long range of fantastic cloud deals in its Year-End Sales Carnival.

Bitcoin plunged on Thursday, slamming the brakes on a blistering rally and sparking a sell-off among smaller digital coins. Bitcoin slumped as much as 13% to its lowest since 16 November.

Anne O’Leary, the CEO of Vodafone Group’s operations in Ireland, will join the Vodacom Group board as a non-executive director from January 2021.

The Competition Tribunal has given its blessing to investment firm Actis’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Cape Town fibre broadband operator Octotel, and has attached no conditions to this approval.

A new study by Mastercard has found – unsurprisingly – that South Africans are shopping more online since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. And the top thing they’re buying is cellular airtime.

Amazon.com’s widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services was back up on Thursday following an outage that affected several users ranging from websites to software providers.

Promoted | As Black Friday looms, rethinking and filling “holes” in existing e-commerce platforms will be critical. By Gareth Hawkey, CEO, redPanda Group.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. News leaks that enterprise software giant Salesforce.com is interested in acquiring a trendy tech company. Then its stock falls 5%, erasing billions of market value. Ring any bells?

Shares in Tesla have surged 40% since 16 November, when it was announced the electric car maker would join the S&P 500 in December.

Promoted | In this podcast, TechCentral speaks to NetApp product manager at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa Lyndsey Chiinze about “hybrid cloud infrastructure” and why it’s critically important in digital transformation.