Imperial, the JSE-listed logistics group, has partnered with early-stage venture capital firm Newtown Partners to launch a corporate venture capital fund focused on investing its start-ups in the logistics space.

Apple’s iPhone shipments plunged more than 60% last month, according to official Chinese data, as the coronavirus forced the US technology giant to close stores in the world’s largest smartphone market.

Cryptocurrencies are not immune to the gyrations rocking global markets, plunging along with a broad range of assets on Monday in the wake of the collapse in crude oil prices.

The rand plunged by almost 8% against the dollar on Monday as investors fled riskier assets, with tumbling oil prices adding to nervousness spurred by the spreading coronavirus.

A metal best known for galvanising steel is making the jump into a developing $30-billion energy-storage market for electrical grids that’s increasingly seen as key to unleashing solar and wind power upon the world.

Promoted | A Forrester study predicts that by 2030, automation, robotics and AI will have resulted in 80% of jobs being transformed. Yet most C-level technology and business leaders haven’t mastered new technologies or change management.

Vodacom and the Competition Commission have reached a settlement agreement over data prices following the regulator’s publication in December of surprisingly broad-ranging, tough and radical interventions in the data services market.

The South African government is adequately prepared to contain the spread of the coronavirus, with only a single case confirmed so far, health minister Zweli Mkhize said.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday that a second case of a novel coronavirus infection in South Africa has been identified – this time in Gauteng.

The Competition Commission instructed mobile operators to adjust their pricing in a bid to reduce digital inequality in the country. This is likely to have mixed outcomes. By Alison Gillwald.