Browsing: In-depth

It’s hard to believe now that between February 2000 and October 2001, the Naspers share price fell from R96 to less than R15.

With the proliferation of smartphones, it’s easy to assume that the era of the paper map is over. That assumption is wrong.

The Soviet system ultimately collapsed under its own weaknesses – lack of innovation, a chronic shortage of consumer goods, inept central planning. None of these are obvious Chinese failings.

The world’s tech police have the opportunity to succeed in televisions where they initially failed with the rest of the connected world, and ensure that users retain a firm grasp on their data.

Nothing Netflix tells investors helps them confidently predict that this grow-now-and-pay-later strategy will pay off. You either believe it, or you don’t. 

An investigation by federal authorities into the possible theft of trade secrets by Huawei could give even more weight to a US campaign against the Chinese company.

Repetition breeds reality. Such is the case with allegations the US has levelled at China in their budding economic Cold War.

Huawei cut loose a sales director arrested in Poland on suspicion of espionage, moving swiftly to distance itself from a case that may crystallise fears the telecommunications giant helps Beijing spy on Western governments.

Allen Zhang stepped on stage to wrap up a long day of presentations at a Tencent Holdings conference. Four hours later, the WeChat founder had methodically torn apart his own brainchild before mapping out the next act for China’s premier super-app.

The Chinese Internet giant seems set on building out the long tail, maximising value beyond mainstream usage of its core products.