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The ANC has decided to tell President Jacob Zuma to step down after he refused the top party leadership’s request for him to resign voluntarily, according to five people familiar with the matter. The party’s national executive

Standard Bank is building a mobile virtual network operator, according to well-placed industry sources. The bank has hired former Virgin Mobile South Africa CEO Steve Bailey to its executive team. Standard Bank is

Right now, it’s bitcoin. But in the past, we’ve had dot-com stocks, the 1929 crash, 19th century railways and the South Sea Bubble of 1720. All these were compared by contemporaries to “tulip mania”, the Dutch financial

Google is working on an overhaul of its Android mobile software for a new generation of smartphones mimicking Apple’s controversial new “notch” at the top of the iPhone X, according to people familiar with the situation

The war for the digital home is raging. Apple has finally followed Amazon, Google and Microsoft by launching a smart speaker with a voice-controlled artificial intelligence assistant. Yet even though the “HomePod” is another

What’s supposed to be the most volatile asset in the universe is proving to be a bastion of stability compared with wild swings and carnage in global equities this past week. Bitcoin clawed its way back from the four-month low

Facebook is losing its swagger with young users, who are increasingly migrating to rival platforms including Snapchat, according to a new study. Seventy-one percent of UK social network users between 12 years and 17 years

Qualcomm’s board has unanimously rejected a higher acquisition offer from Broadcom, spurning the largest technology takeover bid in history and likely leaving the future of the hostile US$121bn proposal to be decided by