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In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the soap opera that is the fight between Vodacom and its former employee, Nkosana Makate, over the “please call me” service.

Facebook marks its 15th birthday on Monday, having expanded from a dormitory room hobby project to a network of more than two billion people at the heart of the online data privacy debate.

The chairman of Huawei says the company would “never do anything to harm any country, any organisation or any individual”, according to an interview in The Globe and Mail published on Saturday.

“Millions” of people attended a virtual concert in popular online game Fortnite on Saturday as electronic music producer Marshmello entertained players worldwide.

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It’s now well known that MTN South Africa patented a “please call me”-type service in the early 2000s, beating rival Vodacom to the punch.

Vodacom cannot pay the “inventor” of the “please call me” service, Nkosana Makate, more money because the outcome of the deadlock-breaking mechanism is legally binding, the company said on Friday.

Now, in the wake of two US criminal indictments, Huawei faces the task of working out the best legal strategy for allegations that could threaten the company’s very existence.

Apple temporarily pulled important app-development tools from Google after the iPhone maker decided the Internet giant broke its rules, according to people familiar with the matter.