Bloomberg Verizon Communications Inc. agreed to sell its data-centers business to Equinix Inc. for $3.6 billion in cash as the company turns its focus to mobile video advertising. The deal includes 24 facilities across 15 metropolitan markets, according to a statement on Tuesday. Equinix, based in Redwood City, California, operates as a real estate investment trust, mostly holding interconnected …

  Bloomberg Opposition from South Africa’s state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. and government infighting threatens to sabotage the world’s fastest-growing green energy program. Eskom is stalling on signing government-brokered deals to buy renewable energy from private producers, encouraged to develop capacity after outages over the past eight years hobbled Africa’s most industrialized nation. With the economy in the …

Bloomberg Egypt’s net foreign reserves rose to the highest level in more than five years in November, as the country started receiving money from the International Monetary Fund and global lenders. Reserves reached $23.1 billion, up from $19 billion in October, according to data posted on the central bank’s website. Egypt got the first $2.75 billion installment of a $12 …