Toyota, which has made a big bet on hydrogen-powered cars, is looking more isolated as industry rivals double down on plug-in electric vehicles as the dominant technology in the emerging post-fossil fuel era. Three years ago, Toyota
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Three of Africa’s largest telecommunications towers companies plan to pursue share sales in either London or New York early next year, taking advantage of high industry valuations to fund expansion, according to people familiar
Tencent’s rise into a $500bn company was fuelled by a culture of internal competition, where teams raced against each other to make ideas work. To become an advertising powerhouse like Facebook, the internal barriers are starting to
Bitcoin is showing no signs of slowing down, blowing past $9 000 less than a week after topping $8 000 and now quickly closing in on five big figures. The price of the largest cryptocurrency by market value is soaring as it gains greater
Should central banks embrace cryptocurrencies, or even pioneer their own? In a nutshell, no. Crypto assets are an unusual innovation, still in flux and often poorly understood. Trying to centralise them in a bureaucracy is exactly
Jeff Bezos is the world’s newest US$100bn mogul. The Amazon.com founder’s fortune is up $2.4bn to $100.3bn (R1.4 trillion at the time of writing), as the online retailer’s shares jumped more than 2% on optimism for Black
African telecommunications group Econet is considering selling shares on the London Stock Exchange at a valuation of about US$8bn next year after combining new and existing assets, according to people familiar with the matter
British Prime Minister Theresa May emerged from 10 Downing Street and stepped somberly to a podium. The previous night, 3 June, three terrorists had driven a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and attacked people in
A Chinese start-up has developed a flying car that it plans to roll out as soon as next year. EHang’s E-184 drone can carry one passenger in its small cockpit, but the firm says it’s working on a model that can carry two. EHang’s
Uber Technologies faces privacy probes across the European Union from regulators who vowed to look into the huge data breach that the company hid for more than a year after hackers stole vast amounts of personal data about customers