South Africa’s largest technology distribution group, JSE-listed Alviva Holdings, is in talks to acquire rival Tarsus, well-placed sources have told TechCentral.

Emerging markets investment firm Actis has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Cape Town-based fibre broadband network operator Octotel.

Rain CEO Willem Roos will step down, Business Day reported on Tuesday, citing a company statement. He will relinquish the role in March 2021.

Apple on Tuesday launched the iPhone 12 with faster 5G connectivity starting at $799, which the company hopes will spur a wave of upgrades and keep its sales booming through to the end of the year.

JSE-listed technology group Altron has appointed Collin Govender, currently its group CIO, as MD its Altron Karabina subsidiary following the impending exit of incumbent Grant van der Wal.

Shares in Adapt IT, a software group listed on the JSE, have leapt by 165.5% in the past fortnight, demonstrating there are still ways for investors to profit from the local market, even in a depressed economic environment.

MTN’s Ghana unit said on Tuesday it was withdrawing a legal challenge it had filed to the supreme court over the market regulator’s move to designate it a significant market power.

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China is cementing its status as the world’s dominant trading nation, confounding warnings that a once-in-a-century pandemic combined with simmering tensions with the US would derail that status.