Business in South Africa

South Africa's alcohol industry has said it was blindsided by government's immediate reinstatement of the ban on alcohol, warning of a dire economi...

The ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) has launched public consultations for a possible review of the wholesale pricing structure of second-level .ZA...

The idea of a common single currency in Africa has been floated for years. The objective is that it would be a symbol of strength that would integr...

Facebook is discontinuing its troubled "trending" section, the social network announced Friday.The section, which launched in 2014, was designed to...

In the fight against coronavirus, authorities are beginning to forget about the rights and freedoms of their citizens, using all their technologica...

Bitcoin has lost nearly a third of its value in just a week as cryptocurrencies come under renewed pressure.Bitcoin was trading 7.5% down on the da...

SEOUL: The pharmaceutical arm of giant South Korean conglomerate Samsung was fined Wednesday for alleged accounting breaches amounting to nearly $4...

Uber has reported a quarterly loss of $1.07bn (£820m) as it pumped money into bikes, scooters and food deliveries.July to September's losses were $...

Amazon.com is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar with ...

BERLIN, GERMANY: Germany's luxury automaker BMW is going to recall 23,700 diesel cars in Europe over an engine fire danger, following a similar act...

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has obtained a license to set up an office in China - a first for the company, which has been shut of China's lucrative mar...

Rolls-Royce has agreed to sell its loss-making commercial marine business to Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen for £500m.The Derby-based engineer said the...

Japanese automaker Nissan says it found emissions and fuel economy data had been falsified at most of its factories in Japan.Nissan said data had b...

LONDON: The tiny but ultra-rich Gulf state of Qatar has agreed to buy one of New York's most iconic buildings, the Plaza Hotel, for around $600 mil...

BEIJING: The Chinese government said in a white paper on Thursday that China will take steps to further open its economy, and that fulfilling World...

US President Donald Trump slammed Harley-Davidson's decision to move some production of motorcycles overseas after Brussels retaliated against his ...

LONDON: Uber went to court on Monday to overturn a decision stripping it of its licence in London after being ruled unfit to run a taxi service in ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world with a net wealth of $141.9 billion, the Forbes World's Bi...

The chief executive of Audi has been detained by German authorities investigating the "dieselgate" scandal at parent firm Volkswagen.Prosecutors in...

Starbucks said Monday that executive chairman Howard Schultz, who transformed a small retail chain of coffee stores into a global juggernaut of caf...