Unprecedented demand for online services and entertainment during Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, along with a scramble for haven investments, have helped set South African stocks on course for a record month.
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Facebook and its partners said their libra cryptocurrency project will now support multiple versions of the digital coins, the majority of which will be backed by individual fiat currencies.
Naspers remains on the lookout for acquisitions even as economies around the world grind to a halt in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Naspers affiliate Tencent is looking to bring its paid music app Joox to some of Africa’s most populous countries after the streaming service proved a hit in Southeast Asia.
A bad start to the year for stocks? That hasn’t applied to Naspers, as the coronavirus confined hundreds of millions of consumers indoors, driving demand for online services and entertainment.
South Africa’s largest technology and media group, Naspers, has announced it will provide R1.5-billion in emergency aid to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.
The Competition Tribunal has blocked Naspers’s plan to buy WeBuyCars. This comes after the Competition Commission moved to prevent the R1.4-billion acquisition of a 60% stake in the company.
South Africa’s biggest online shopping site, Takealot.com, hopes to keep operating through the three-week Covid-19 lockdown, which starts on Friday.
Naspers affiliate Tencent picked up millions of new gamers during the global coronavirus outbreak. That helped the company gain $25-billion of market value up to 5 March, before a global market rout torpedoed the stock.
South Africa’s benchmark stock index plunged the most since the market crash of October 1997 as reaction to US measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus accelerated the sell-off.