In all the recent bombshell reports about the Kaspersky anti-virus software, it’s easy to focus on the Russian threat and miss the general context: every government that employs hackers tries to weaponise antivirus software. Government
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Amazon is a company that gets the benefit of the doubt. A lot. No technology company is as ambitious or as feared. Yet no one really knows Amazon’s business strategy, and that’s by design. Most investors are happy for Amazon
The sharing economy has very quickly gained wide acceptance. Using apps like Uber and Airbnb is now mainstream. “Young people today are demanding access to goods over ownership of goods,” says Daniel Breier
The Competition Commission believes a contract between Vodacom and the government is potentially anticompetitive and has launched an investigation into the telecommunications giant to establish this. Specifically, the
My thoughts tend to go to dark places these days. And so when I watched Google on Wednesday trot out one after another of its homegrown computing devices for every task and every nook of our homes, I went straight to dystopia
Here are two facts that defy logic: by the end of the year, electric car maker Tesla will have burned through more than US$10bn without ever having made 10c. Yet companies around the world are lining up to compete
With the British prime minister calling London’s refusal to extend Uber’s license “disproportionate”, and Uber’s chief executive heading to London to talk to regulators, a compromise is in the offing. But it shouldn’t give Uber a false
“He awoke – and wanted Mars.” That’s the first line of Philip K Dick’s classic novella, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, the inspiration for the Total Recall films. I first came across the story in a sci-fi anthology back in high school
In case it wasn’t obvious before Wednesday, Amazon.com has leapfrogged the smartphone to go after the next era of computing. The company never could have done this if it hadn’t been steamrolled in smartphones first. The way
Apple has a yield problem. The company is struggling to boost production yields quickly enough to ship a device that accounts for more than 60% of annual revenue. Cobbling together various media reports, it seems