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.

Google has agreed to buy Looker Data Sciences for $2.6-billion, expanding its offerings to help customers manage data in the cloud.

Each deal Google does is a reminder of its failures so far in the lucrative field of cloud computing and a potential warning sign to the software specialists that have thrived in the last decade.

Behind the cryptocurrency curtain hides a seedy underworld where these electronic tokens are being used to launder the proceeds of illegal gambling and facilitate illicit drugs, weapons and rhino horn transactions.

A mobile app used by police to track citizens shows how some of China’s biggest technology companies are linked to a mass surveillance system that is more sophisticated than previously known.

Google has confirmed it has appealed against a €1.5-billion fine issued by the European Commission for alleged illegal practices in search advertising.

Facebook bosses have lost control of the social network and is unlikely to regain it, a former Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg has claimed.