In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the big announcements from Apple’s developer conference, including the new Mac Pro.

The US government is sharpening its antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech. The justice department and Federal Trade Commission last week divvied up antitrust oversight for Apple, Amazon.com, Facebook and Google.

South Africa has no option but to increase financial support for Eskom even while pushing for reforms at the stricken state-owned power utility, according to national treasury director-general Dondo Mogajane.

When Naspers lists in Amsterdam, it will bring with it a dual shareholding structure to match or even exceed the worst practices of tech behemoths such as Facebook or Google parent Alphabet.

While President Cyril Ramaphosa says power utility Eskom is considered too big to fail, S&P Global Ratings has a different view: it could be too big to support.

Facebook has suspended Huawei’s ability to pre-install the social network’s apps on its smartphones.

Google has warned the Trump administration that it risks compromising US national security if it goes ahead with export restrictions on Huawei, and has asked to be exempted from any ban, according to a report.

Amazon.com plans to spend billions of dollars building a network of thousands of satellites to provide broadband Internet service, CEO Jeff Bezos said.

The country’s big four traditional banks – Absa, FNB, Nedbank and Standard Bank – have together shut 695 branches since their respective peaks in the earlier part of this decade.

While state-owned enterprises such as Eskom, SAA and the SABC continue to make headlines for all the wrong reasons, one (partially) state-owned company is doing quite well, thank you very much. By Duncan McLeod.