Naspers affiliate Tencent is planning a major update to its ubiquitous WeChat messaging app to stave off up-and-comer ByteDance and counter the start-up’s growing dominance of short-form video.

Uber Technologies will sell Uber Eats in India to local rival Zomato in a $172-million deal, underscoring the ride-hailing giant’s effort to cut back on loss-making operations.

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou shouldn’t be dispatched to the US because her alleged crimes don’t meet Canada’s legal tests for extradition, her defence lawyers said at the opening of hearings.

Promoted | Africa’s leading integrated technology company, iOCO, has achieved Managed Service Partner status with Google Cloud.

Liquid Telecom on Monday confirmed that it will launch a wholesale 5G network “early in 2020”. Vodacom is set to be one of the first customers to use it.

Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has slammed a Sunday Independent report, in which she is accused of misusing taxpayers’ money, describing the article as a “malicious smear campaign”.

The European Union won’t explicitly ban Huawei Technologies or other 5G equipment vendors when the bloc unveils guidelines for member states to mitigate security risks.

Artificial intelligence is “too important” not to be regulated because of the damage it could cause if left unchecked, the boss of Google has said.

Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency starts 2020 looking no closer to release, with authorities in its base in Switzerland raising fresh questions about its suitability as a global currency.

ByteDance is preparing a major push into the mobile arena’s most lucrative market, a realm Tencent Holdings has dominated for over a decade: games.