And it begins. Apple Inc now officially faces a double threat on the regulatory front. The European Union announced it has opened two formal antitrust investigations into the tech giant to see if the company has broken competition laws with its App Store and Apple Pay services. Specifically, the regulators plan to investigate Apple’s rules surrounding its in-app purchase system, ...

As Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations continue to rise in the US and other parts of the world, Oxford University scientists provided a much-needed piece of good news: A large, randomised trial in the UK that compared dexamethasone — a generic steroid — to standard treatment found that the drug cut the risk of death in severely ill patients. The result ...

Bloomberg South African Airways’ (SAA) administrators proposed the government put up at least $1.5 billion to rescue the carrier after years of losses and the grounding of commercial passenger flights to contain the spread of coronavirus. The state-owned airline was placed in a local form of bankruptcy protection in December, and the rescue team led by Siviwe Dongwana and Les ...