Browsing: World

Bitcoin is showing no signs of slowing down, blowing past $9 000 less than a week after topping $8 000 and now quickly closing in on five big figures. The price of the largest cryptocurrency by market value is soaring as it gains greater

Jeff Bezos is the world’s newest US$100bn mogul. The Amazon.com founder’s fortune is up $2.4bn to $100.3bn (R1.4 trillion at the time of writing), as the online retailer’s shares jumped more than 2% on optimism for Black

A Chinese start-up has developed a flying car that it plans to roll out as soon as next year. EHang’s E-184 drone can carry one passenger in its small cockpit, but the firm says it’s working on a model that can carry two. EHang’s

Uber Technologies faces privacy probes across the European Union from regulators who vowed to look into the huge data breach that the company hid for more than a year after hackers stole vast amounts of personal data about customers

The bitcoin bulls are charging. A day after hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz said the cryptocurrency will end the year at $10 000, Fundstrat’s Thomas Lee doubled his price target to $11 500 by the middle of 2018 – a 40% gain

US Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai will propose vacating Barack Obama-era net neutrality rules, according to a person briefed on the development that will hand a victory to broadband providers such as AT&T and

Bitcoin topped $8 000 for the first time, as investors set aside technology concerns that had derailed its advance earlier this month. Bitcoin rose 4.8% to $8 071.05 as of 10.17pm South African time on Sunday. It’s now up more