Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Uber Technologies GM for sub-Saharan Africa Alon Lits and the company’s head of business development for the same region, Justin Spratt
Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, has died at the age of 66, the chip maker said in a statement. Otellini served as Intel’s CEO from 2005 until retiring in 2013. He handed the reins to current CEO Brian Krzanich. Otellini also served
Amid robust demand for emerging market equities, there’s one place global investors are avoiding: Africa’s biggest stock market. With almost a full quarter to go, outflows from South Africa’s stock exchange have already reached
Bitcoin traders can breathe a sigh of relief. If JPMorgan Chase & Co’s CEO Jamie Dimon fires them for trading the cybercurrency, Goldman Sachs Group could welcome them with open arms. Goldman is reportedly
Libryo, a Cape Town- and London-based legal-tech start-up, has secured US$1m in seed funding, and has plans to expand its business and product into new global markets. Libryo, which was co-founded in 2016
Facebook outlined plans to strengthen its advertisement systems and disclosed that about 10m people saw ads linked to Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election. The social media giant said
Here are two facts that defy logic: by the end of the year, electric car maker Tesla will have burned through more than US$10bn without ever having made 10c. Yet companies around the world are lining up to compete
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With the British prime minister calling London’s refusal to extend Uber’s license “disproportionate”, and Uber’s chief executive heading to London to talk to regulators, a compromise is in the offing. But it shouldn’t give Uber a false
I have a soft spot for helpdesk chat services. I always try my Internet service provider’s chat client before anything else, for three reasons: it is far cheaper than a phone call, it’s much faster than an e-mail response and it allows me to