The late Oracle co-CEO was a relentless hustler and loved the art of doing business more than just about any other executive. By Ashlee Vance.
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While the immediate causes of the generation crisis at Eskom are well known, the emergency it found itself in this week has been some time coming.
As South Africa enters its third day of blackouts, investors are still awaiting word from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration on how it’s going to fix the ailing state power company.
New research shows South African universities are good at producing academic papers, but not at translating them into innovations and patents. That needs to change.
That growing apprehension marks a stark turnaround for a company that has seemed invincible for years.
South Africa’s economy was roaring along in 2007 on the back of the global commodities boom when power shortages struck, bringing mines and smelters to a halt.
There will be another bull market, much larger than the first one, where the potential is finally realised. And we won’t have to wait 20 years for the second act.
Now that Microsoft has restored some of its former glory, the company is going for an even more unlikely comeback: rewriting the history of its much-maligned phone business.
A US antitrust panel wants to learn about Apple’s policies on whether iPhone users can set non-Apple apps as defaults in categories including Web browsers, maps, e-mail and music.
Historically, powerful entities tend to consolidate their power. But the recent populist backlash might push technologists to move in the opposite direction.