Huawei Pay, a payments system for Huawei smartphone users, will be launched in South Africa later this week, the Chinese consumer electronics giant said on Monday.

Nigeria’s national electricity grid collapsed on Sunday, the Transmission Company of Nigeria said in a statement. Power outages in Nigeria are common but a system collapse is unusual.

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This month, an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired in the general direction of Hawaii. During its descent a few minutes later, still outside the Earth’s atmosphere, it was struck by another missile that destroyed it.

The UK will ban the installation of 5G equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies by the end of next September.

The Trump administration is poised to add China’s top chip maker, SMIC, to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

S&P Global is in advanced talks to buy IHS Markit for about US$44-billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Promoted | Minuteman Press, a digital print and copy store based in Rosslyn, Pretoria, has completed the installation of a new Xerox Versant 180 to supplement its production capacity.

Icasa’s recent decision to extend the allocation of emergency spectrum under the Covid-19 disaster regulations to operators to the end of March 2021 now has an added proviso: The companies will have to cough up for it.