Naspers spin-off Prosus, which became Europe’s largest technology company this week, has always been something of a Gordian knot for investors.
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Google and the US justice department are set to face each other in court on Friday for the first time since the government sued the company for illegally monopolising Internet search.
Just as the US government starts looking to rein in, or even break up, big technology companies in the belief they have too much power, China is going in the opposite direction.
The cure for bad information is good information. If people are sometimes persuaded by the false, that’s a risk attendant upon the proper practice of democracy. By Stephen L Carter.
The Covid-19 pandemic is fuelling a boom for Africa-focused money transfer companies, despite predictions from the World Bank of a historic 20% drop in remittances to poorer countries this year.
At Tesla’s Battery Day event in September, CEO Elon Musk set himself an ambitious target: to produce a $25 000 electric car in three years. Hitting that price is seen as critical to deliver a true, mass-market product.
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump’s justice department filed a landmark lawsuit against Google. It could upend the business model of one of America’s most successful companies. Yet the rationale is far from clear.
The US government’s antitrust case against Google could face an uphill battle from a judiciary that may question whether a free search engine beloved by consumers has actually left them worse off.
Good-quality address data is essential for future pandemics and other disasters, for good governance and for socioeconomic benefits generally. But in South Africa, address data is often poor quality and incomplete.
Oil forecasters have had the same long-term challenge for decades: figuring out how much of the world’s liquid hydrocarbons will…