Entrepreneur Thabo Molefe – better known as Tbo Touch – will launch a video-on-demand streaming platform later this year called THD. The platform will showcase original South African – and African
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Touch HD founder Tbo Touch about his life, his business, #datamustfall and his next big venture. Touch – born in Sharpeville in 1981 – talks about his big
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Stripe co-founder John Collison, who in 2016 became the youngest dollar billionaire in the world. Collison, who founded Stripe with is brother Patrick, talks
Harry Pokrandt spent the last year scouring the Earth for real estate with two main characteristics. He needed cold weather, to keep his computer servers cool, and cheap electricity, to keep them running 24 hours a day.
Netflix stunned Wall Street by attracting fewer subscribers than expected last quarter, renewing concerns that the video-streaming service has become an investment bubble. The shares plunged as much as 15%.
MTN Group has sold 100% of its subsidiary in Cyprus for R4.1-billion. The Johannesburg-listed emerging-markets telecommunications group said on Monday before markets opened that it had sold the business
Facebook bestrides the Earth. It attracts nearly 1.5 billion users a day, commands a fifth of global online advertising revenue and has a market capitalisation that exceeds the GDP of many countries. But breaking it up is the wrong approach.
Clad in jeans and a gray sweatshirt, Amy Hood stands before a room of 140 Microsoft recruits. The feeling in the air is a bit like the first day of school, and new hires are taking selfies outside in front of a big Microsoft logo.
You have to give one thing to Facebook: confronted by a torrent of accusations of misbehaviour over the past 12 months, the world’s largest social network has at least made the effort to be conciliatory.
Bitcoin is headed for its biggest increase in two weeks on Monday amid a steady drip of news reports suggesting some of the biggest names in investing are starting to embrace digital currencies.