Oracle said CEO Mark Hurd will take a leave of absence for health-related reasons. Founder Larry Ellison and Safra Catz, who shares the CEO role with Hurd, will assume Hurd’s responsibilities during his absence.

Customers of leading fibre-to-the-home broadband provider Cool Ideas have been suffering from intermittent and sometimes non-existent Internet access since Tuesday night.

Investors piled into Naspers’s newly listed Dutch unit, holding assets including a lucrative stake in Tencent Holdings, sending its shares soaring on their trading debut in Amsterdam.

The executives behind Wantitall and Parcelninja have launched a “global sourcing” e-commerce website promising half a million branded goods to South Africans at cheaper prices than available through other retailers.

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Audi has swapped headlights for drones in its latest futuristic vehicle concept, revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

What to make of WeWork, the fashionable, unprofitable, metaphysically inscrutable US$47-billion office-rental company that intends to “elevate the world’s consciousness” and potentially go public this year?

Apple’s decision to skip support for the latest wireless standard on its new iPhones may cost the company a chance at capturing China’s biggest smartphone replacement wave in years.

SpaceX is weeks away from flying a second batch of satellites into orbit for a broadband Internet project Elon Musk is racing to set up before fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Uber Technologies is dismissing 435 employees, the second major staff cut in recent months, as the company faces mounting losses and a declining stock price.