Four years after the original Raspberry Pi arrived in February 2012, the new Raspberry Pi 3 has landed, kitted out with a considerably faster, 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex 1,2GHz processor and
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The historic combination of favourable macroeconomic conditions for Africa began to reverse in 2013, with a weakening of most commodity prices as well as the taper tantrum in the global financial
Digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin faces a key year ahead that could seal the fate of its long-term adoption, says South African-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vinny Lingham. Lingham first integrated Bitcoin payments into his US-based digital gift
Revolutions are, as a rule, rare and momentous processes. But across the African continent the potential is ripe for a clean energy revolution that upsets and leapfrogs the old fossil-fuel order
I’ve designed a mind experiment. If I had to invest all my savings in a single company, and had to choose either Apple, Google (now Alphabet) or Facebook, which one would it be? I would not be able
More than two thirds of South African organisations say that they have been victims of economic crime in the past 24 months. This is according to PwC’s Global Economic Crime survey. Economic crimes include misappropriation of assets, procurement fraud
Remember those big black disks with holes in the middle that used to be played on “turntables”? They’re not actually ancient history. This past year, worshippers at what novelist Michael Chabon calls “the Church of Vinyl” bought 9,2m records. And though
Earlier this month, YouTube’s new subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, YouTube Red, launched its first swag of “original” programmes. This followed news of significant rights acquisitions by SVOD services at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals
This afternoon, finance minister Pravin Gordhan will arguably give the most significant speech of his political career when he delivers the budget for 2016/2017 in parliament. Economically speaking
It’s not your imagination. Involvement by managers and employees in collaborative endeavours has increased by 50% in the past two decades, according to research published in Harvard Business Review. The study found that in many companies, the