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.

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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.

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Volkswagen’s ID.3 hatchback rose to the top of Europe’s electric-car sales charts a few months after hitting the market, narrowly beating a Renault model and trouncing Tesla’s Model 3.

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Suspicious payments flowed to a company owned by Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo and to the ANC in the months directly before and after EOH landed major contracts with the city.

Former EOH executive Jehan Mackay has taken centre stage in corruption allegations involving payments to senior ANC figures, including Zizi Kodwa and a former personal assistant to ex-President Jacob Zuma.

EOH CEO Stephen van Coller’s testimony at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture inadvertently turned into a lecture on how corruption between the state and the public sector happens.