FirstRand is emulating Amazon.com with a digital offering that will span everything from insurance, car licence renewals to locating plumbing services as the South African bank chases new revenue sources.

Nasa’s Voyager 2 has become only the second human-made object to reach the space between stars. Nasa said on Monday that Voyager 2 exited the region of the sun’s influence last month.

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China has threatened Canada with grave consequences if a top executive at Huawei is not immediately released, calling her arrest as she changed planes in Canada “unreasonable, unconscionable and vile in nature”.

Uber Technologies has joined rival Lyft in filing for an initial public offering, according to a person familiar with the matter.

China’s Huawei is planning to overhaul its global software systems as it tries to avoid a ban in the UK and other European markets, after previous piecemeal fixes failed to assuage national security concerns.

Microsoft is handing over control of people’s online life to Google, leading rival Mozilla has claimed following news that the tech giant is to drop its own Web browser technology for Google’s.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted the resignations of four board members of the financially distressed SABC, placing pressure on parliament to appoint replacements on an urgent basis.

Facebook could be a threat to democracy unless it is properly regulated, a former head of GCHQ has warned.

Eskom should consider selling two coal-fired plants that rank among the world’s biggest to repair the state-owned utility’s finances, according to the head of South Africa’s biggest bank by market value.