Payments firm Square’s deal to buy a majority stake in music streamer Tidal for $297-million could popularise blockchain or other new approaches to storing and buying online media.

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The Internet Service Providers’ Association has called for mediation, rather than litigation, to resolve the stand-off between communications regulator Icasa and telecommunications operators over the looming spectrum auction.

Old Mutual’s private equity unit has acquired a stake in a second data centre in sub-Saharan Africa as it expands to take advantage of a shortfall in cloud storage capacity on the continent.

Facebook has denied it intends sharing WhatsApp users’ contact lists with other Facebook properties when it introduces new terms and conditions soon that have caused an uproar among consumers.

Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp on Thursday said it has launched both video and voice calling on its desktop apps for Windows and macOS.

Britain’s competition regulator said on Thursday it has opened an investigation into Apple after complaints that the iPhone maker’s terms and conditions for app developers are unfair and anticompetitive.

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Standard Bank said on Thursday that system problems have caused some its customers to have card transactions deducted from their accounts more than once.