It’s been a tough month for mobile phone manufacturers: Samsung has recalled its Galaxy Note7 due to exploding batteries, the European Commission has handed Apple a €13 billion fine for its tax practices in Ireland and Google has withdrawn
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Nigeria has the largest population in Africa and one of the biggest in the world. It boasts dynamic, entrepreneurial, ambitious and well educated people. The country was, until recently, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, prompting
Oh, Tim! Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim! What have we said about product strategy and trying not to alienate customers? I thought you’d learned your lesson after the iPhone 5c fiasco
It’s hard to know who’s leading South Africa. Last week, the presidency repudiated the mines minister when he caused a storm of protest from business leaders by saying the cabinet authorised a judicial
Quantum mechanics, Carl Sagan once observed, is so strange that “common sense is almost useless in approaching it”. Scientists still don’t understand exactly why matter behaves as it does at the quantum level. Yet they’re getting better at exploiting its peculiar dynamics
South Africa has caught the world’s attention with an epic battle between two powerful factions within the governing ANC, which has spilt into government. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has aptly described this as a government that wages
As South African finance minister Pravin Gordhan tries to fend off a police investigation, his department is engaged in open conflict with key state-owned companies over their management and spending plans. Threatened court action by the national
Just across the border from Hong Kong in southern China, two gleaming towers of glass and steel are rising in a city long known for its manufacturing prowess. This is the new headquarters for Tencent Holdings, a US$599m
South Africa has not had load shedding for nearly a year. This is a welcome development after years of power cuts that constrained economic growth. Electricity consumption has more or less flattened out, giving the national utility
MTN has announced plans for the introduction of its third black economic empowerment deal, valued at R9,9 billion, and it’s received a great deal of attention from investors and analysts alike. The proposed scheme will see the issue