Earlier this year, when bitcoin’s price fell by more than 60% from its record close, a less-noticed bitcoin figure also plunged: the number of daily transactions. There are many explanations for the fall-off in trading, from
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Last week’s annual Mobile World Congress comes at a turning point for the industry: 2017 was the first year in four that mobile phone sales fell. The action on the convention hall floor, combined with some nearly buried findings
Jaguar offered an online preview of its fully electric I-Pace sport utility vehicle as the UK luxury car maker pushes forward with plans to challenge Tesla and offer a battery-powered line-up by the end of the decade
A bright future lies ahead for OLED. When that starts, and how long it lasts, is less clear. Organic light-emitting diode screens have been touted as the future of smartphones because they’re crisper and easier on
A Chinese company that dominates the African smartphone market is preparing for a backdoor listing that will make it one of the Asian country’s biggest publicly traded mobile device makers. Shenzhen Transsion Holdings
During the dot-com-crazed 1990s, Cisco Systems became the world’s most valuable company. Widely expected to become the first company to hit a trillion-dollar capitalisation, it made it barely halfway there. When the
After four days, thousands of stalls, 2 300 companies exhibiting, and more than 100 000 square metres of floor space to traverse, here are some of the more interesting gadgets from this year’s Mobile World Congress in
Eskom bought itself some financial breathing room after signing a R20bn short-term credit facility with a group of banks. The power utility needed the liquidity to see it through to the financial year that starts
When Elon Musk’s SpaceX heaved two communications satellites aloft last week, he joined a space race that’s foiled plenty of other dreamers. Billions of dollars have vanished in the quest to provide Internet service from low-earth
Last spring, as cryptocurrencies seemed on the brink of a linkage with the traditional financial system, there were predictions of a price explosion along with institutional, regulatory and mainstream acceptance of the currencies