When Sony unveiled a cloud gaming pact with arch rival Microsoft, it surprised the industry. Perhaps no one was more shocked than employees of Sony’s PlayStation division.

Top US corporations from chip makers to Google have frozen the supply of critical software and components to Huawei, complying with a Trump administration crackdown that threatens to choke off China’s largest technology company.

South Africa is considering the creation of a special-purpose vehicle as part of a restructuring of the country’s embattled state-owned power utility, which has almost R500-billion of debt.

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In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss MTN’s decision to back down, under consumer pressure, over its plan to introduce an opt-out-only out-of-bundle service.

MTN South Africa has buckled under consumer pressure and will no longer implement its plan to introduce a “universal” 1MB out-of-bundle rate, from consumers would have to opt out.

MTN Group’s Nigerian unit soared another 10% on its second day of trading in Lagos as investors rushed to grab a slice of the country’s only listed mobile phone company.

Bitcoin true believers will tell you they never lost faith, but a 50% rally earlier this month has awakened the animal spirits that roamed in the halcyon days of 2017.

Richemont reported its weakest profit margin in more than a decade, showing how much it’s costing the Swiss luxury-goods maker to push into e-commerce.

Mainstream financial institutions are adopting cryptocurrencies in what is perhaps the most profound development since the birth of bitcoin a decade ago.