States dabbling in blockchain technology, or planning to issue their own digital currencies, isn’t flattery – it’s competition.
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After a year of tough headlines, the world’s biggest technology companies showed last week that they’re powering through, continuing to rake in cash and invest in future growth.
A new technology promises to make your Web browser more private than ever, keeping your Internet activity from prying eyes. But some argue your data won’t actually be all that private.
Although the specific problem that Google’s computer solved won’t have much practical significance, simply getting the technology to work was a triumph; comparisons to the Wright brothers’ early flights aren’t far off the mark.
Deputy President David Mabuza is not the only one having difficulty defining the term “fourth Industrial Revolution”. By Pieter Geldenhuys.
With his iconoclast approach intact even after five decades in the business of disruption, Richard Branson has big plans for his airline, his space-flight business, a satellite launcher and a cruise-ship business he plans to introduce next year.
Fifty years ago, a University of California Los Angeles computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the Internet, a network called Arpanet.
With over 2.3 billion monthly active users around the world, it’s not a stretch to imagine that Facebook could have great influence over who pays whom, and how.
The Volkswagen Golf went on a record-breaking run of more than 35 million units sold to date. But in the 45 years since the first one rolled off the line, the ground has shifted.
Tuesday’s dramatic hostile counter-bid for the British Internet takeout company Just Eat arrived almost fully baked. But the new offer isn’t that tempting – it needs a big dollop of dessert to make it irresistible.