Vodacom Group hiked its interim dividend by 9.2% to R4.15/share (R3.80 previously) on strong headline earnings growth in the first half of its 2021 financial year and a dividend receipt from Kenya’s Safaricom.

Prosus, the giant investor in online classifieds, food delivery and payments, expects to report a 16.9% to 22.7% growth in earnings per share for the six months to the end of September, it said on Monday.

Apple’s ad tracking is the target of two complaints to Spanish and German authorities by a privacy advocate whose earlier legal battles are forcing Facebook to change the way it transfers data.

Barely a month after the European Central Bank issued a major report on the topic, its president, Christine Lagarde, has said “her hunch” is that the euro zone could have its own electronic currency within two to four years.

Vodacom Group reinstated growth targets and said it has the financial strength to take part in a long-awaited auction of broadband spectrum in South Africa.

Google is building a new campus near Seattle, increasing its presence in a region that is home to Amazon.com and Microsoft.

Qualcomm has received a licence from the US government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China’s Huawei, an exemption to US trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Monday, Nasa’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.

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