Everywhere you look, someone is trying to kill off cash. India eliminated 23bn notes from circulation in an effort to fight tax evasion and corruption. Bitcoin and mobile payments are still hyped as the wave of the future while credit cards
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Faraday Future staked its claim to the world’s fastest electric car with its FF91 production model, showing footage of it outracing Tesla Motors’ Model S in a glitzy event in Las Vegas. The start-up electric car maker backed by Chinese billionaire Jia
For a clue on how bearish foreign investors have become about Chinese stocks, take a look at Tencent Holdings, in which South Africa’s Naspers holds a roughly one-third stake. The Shenzhen-based technology giant has tumbled 13% from its
Outside Sweden, Daniel Ek isn’t a household name. That will probably change this year when the 33-year-old seeks to turn Spotify, the music streaming business he founded a decade ago in Stockholm, into a publicly traded company that
The South African government said a visit to Taiwan by the mayor of Tshwane breached foreign policy and was “highly regrettable.” Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga, from the opposition Democratic Alliance, ignored advice from the department
Huawei Technologies has pledged to overhaul its culture and re-think the way it conducts business, expecting global uncertainty to mount in 2017 after sales growth slowed. China’s largest telecommunications equipment maker expects a 32% rise in revenue
President Barack Obama retaliated against Russia for cyberattacks aimed at interfering with the 2016 presidential campaign, imposing sanctions on top Russian intelligence officials and agencies, expelling 35 Russian operatives from the US and releasing
Susan Wojcicki will forever be part of Google’s history. The company literally started in her home and garage, which she rented in 1998 to two graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Now in her third decade at Google and entering her fourth year as YouTube’s
US President Barack Obama has vowed that America will respond to Russian hacking undertaken during the country’s presidential campaign. Yet the public may never hear about it. During his presidency, Obama favoured a policy of deterrence when it came
In a year when populist voters reshaped power and politics across Europe and the US, the world’s wealthiest people are ending 2016 with $237bn more than they had at the start. Triggered by