More big investors are speculating that bitcoin will gain wider acceptance and shake up the financial world, maybe by filling the role of gold as a hedge against inflation better than gold can.
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The decision by Amazon.com’s cloud unit to pull the plug on social media service Parler highlighted the company’s often-overlooked role powering much of the Internet.
If Apple is going to make a success of its car project, it has to target the $230-billion luxury automobile market. But displacing 125-year-old incumbents like Mercedes-Benz won’t be straightforward.
The more utopian scenarios for crypto, whether proponents realise it or not, rely on the notion that crypto remains simultaneously fringe and mainstream. That will be a hard trick to pull off.
It was kind of inevitable that Tesla’s biggest challenger wouldn’t be a car company. Apple makes for the perfect nemesis and could teach its Californian cousin a thing or two about reliability and delivery.
Last year’s backlash against Facebook’s planned digital currency libra would have been most CEOs’ worst nightmare. It hasn’t deterred Mark Zuckerberg.
Eskom is broke and can’t invest in any further capacity. Independent power producers will have to do it, and they will need an independent transmission and market operator that they trust.
Even in a year when bashing tech companies has become a bipartisan avocation, last week’s US antitrust assault on Facebook stands out.
Unless you’re an IT guru, or someone whose professional duties include protecting computer networks from cyberattacks, you may not have heard of FireEye, a little company specialising in digital warfare.
The US took a major step toward the possible breakup of Facebook by formally filing an antitrust lawsuit against the technology giant. Here’s how a forced breakup would impact Facebook’s prospects.