In the podcast this week, rumours of a new foldable Samsung phone, the growing importance of WhatsApp as a communications platform in South Africa, mirrorless cameras, a new Lego store and much more.

Facebook has always had one absolute leader, cemented by a share class structure that maintained Mark Zuckerberg’s voting control even when he sold millions of shares. Some investors want change.

For a technology sector on the verge of begetting two trillion-dollar companies in Amazon.com and Apple, the requirements are getting daunting.

What happened? That’s what many of Facebook’s investors have spent the last 18 hours wondering.

Intel fell as much as 8.4% on Friday after executives said a key new chip technology wouldn’t be out until late next year, prompting concerns the company could be vulnerable to rivals.

Twitter said monthly users dropped by a million in the second quarter, and predicted that number will decline further as the company continues to fight against spam, fake accounts and malicious rhetoric.

After 18 months of false starts, it appears that Samsung is finally almost ready to launch its smartphone payments platform in South Africa.

After all the controversy Facebook has generated in recent months, it seemed almost inevitable that at some point the social media giant would get what it had coming. A reckoning.

Amazon.com reported better-than-expected earnings in the second quarter and forecast more of the same in the current period, igniting investor optimism.

Naspers is considering the listing of certain parts of its sprawling global media and technology business outside South Africa as the continent’s largest company by market value seeks to reduce its size.