Given the US-China trade war, one might think that news of Apple contravening Chinese labour laws would provide just the ammunition that Beijing needs to crack down on the tech giant.
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When Naspers’s Latin America chief cold-called Alec Oxenford in 2010, he got straight to the point: he wanted to buy a majority stake of the Argentinian entrepreneur’s online classifieds business.
The theory is that consumers with older smartphones are holding out for what are expected to be the first iPhones that support 5G, a new, faster wireless standard. Not so fast.
When manufacturers are unveiling cars that can’t be driven for years to come, and the very people able to afford them are over the hype anyway, it raises the question: have we reached peak supercar?
Chip makers have spent two decades pouring investment into a revolutionary new technique to push the limits of physics and cram more transistors onto slices of silicon. Now that technology is on the cusp of going mainstream.
Japan and South Korea are showing no signs of resolving an escalating trade dispute, which traces back to 1910. It now poses a threat to the world’s technology supply chain.
The most exciting innovation in initial distribution of cryptocurrency in 2019 is Handshake’s directed airdrop.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni’s plan to pull the economy out of its longest downward cycle since 1945 may have put him on a collision course with cabinet colleagues, fellow ruling-party members and labour unions.
The theory that humans can be digitised and live on within the digital confines of a computer-based existence has been the subject of debate. But until recently, no one had taken the idea much beyond research and discussion.
Current and former central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, weren’t sure if Mark Carney’s idea for a virtual reserve currency is the answer, but they agree that the dollar’s dominance is a problem.