Soon after I enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge University in 1964, I encountered a fellow student, two years ahead of me in his studies, who was unsteady on his feet and spoke with great difficulty. This was
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Exactly 17 days. This is the timeline in which social grant payments to more than 10m recipients will either continue…
It might be hard to believe. But after the 1 400% rally of 2017, with wild swings along the way, the great crypto craze has cooled, at least for now. For the past month, bitcoin’s price has stalled between $8 500 and
Last week, HTC published its February sales numbers and, when combined with January data, revenue dropped 36% from a year earlier. That decline is offset by the fact that the Taiwanese smartphone maker just
As time drags on, Steinhoff dribbles unhelpful titbits of news to anxious shareholders, bondholders, investors, employees and pensioners. Apart from the apparent complex deals that the independent investigators, PwC, are
Google called off its race to the moon weeks ago when it became clear no private explorer would complete the trip by the 31 March deadline. That won’t stop at least three teams from Israel, Japan and the US, who say their
If it’s truly serious about cars, Apple should buy Aston Martin. This may sound wacky, but bear with me. For the prestige British car maker, there’s clear mileage in the idea. Its owners are already planning an initial public
First National Bank’s deliberate move to aggressively shift transaction to its mobile app from other digital (and physical) channels is paying off handsomely. If recent trends are sustained – and there’s no indication that they
What makes Uber Technologies the most valuable venture-backed technology company in the world? Investors say size and growth. The business is transforming global transportation networks. On closer inspection of its
Much dust has been kicked up over MultiChoice’s channel agreements with the SABC and the Guptas’ ANN7 television news channel. The claim is that these parties colluded in a form of state capture and corruption to their mutual