US President Donald Trump says he may resolve a dispute over Huawei as part of a trade agreement with China, yet doing so would undercut American assertions the company poses a national security threat.

Phakamani Hadebe will step down as CEO of Eskom at the end of July, deepening a crisis that Goldman Sachs has described as the biggest threat to the country’s economy.

Facebook is edging closer to launching its own cryptocurrency, with an aim to launch as soon as next year.

Unlike bitcoin, Facebook’s aim with GlobalCoin is not to bring down the established financial system, but to co-opt it.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod is joined by Jolla CEO Sami Pienimäki to talk about the implications for the world of smartphone operating systems of the US government’s decision to force Google to hang up on Huawei.

For Elon Musk and Tesla, the blows from Wall Street came one after another this week – a relentless barrage that left the stock so beaten up that some now wonder if it can ever regain its status as the ultimate 21st century disrupter.

Facebook has experienced a steep increase in the number of fake accounts being created on the social network, resulting in more than three billion being taken down.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites late on Thursday, a key step in Musk’s vision of creating a space-based network to provide broadband service around the world.

The US has charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 18 counts related to endangering national security by conspiring to obtain and disclose classified information.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that China’s Huawei, which was put on a US blacklist earlier this month, could be part of a trade pact with the country.