The gig economy has taken over the world, with most people not fully realising its impact. Put simply, the gig economy is a labour market characterised by freelance, flexible, on-demand work rather than
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As of early autumn (northern hemisphere), it was clearer than ever that production problems meant Apple wouldn’t have enough iPhone…
Apple has lost its supply chain mojo. While consumers remember the iPhone for its cool design, closed-wall operating system and hefty price tag, industry insiders in Asia turn to the US giant as an example of incredible
Software is so disappointing. It was supposed to – in the words of one sage – eat the world, the implication being that it would be modern, brilliant, liberating, hip and fun (assuming it didn’t make you and your job obsolete
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
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