Tesla’s mission-critical Model 3 will start production on Friday before beginning a rapid ramp-up targeting a rate of 20 000/month in December. “Expecting to complete” the first car on Friday, CEO Elon Musk wrote in a late-night tweet
Microsoft is reorganising its sales and marketing operations in a bid to woo more customers in areas like artificial intelligence and the cloud by providing sales staff with greater technical and industry-specific expertise
Facebook’s small print may be the next big thing in European antitrust as watchdogs home in on how the world’s biggest social network collects information from users that helps generate vast advertising revenues. Germany’s Federal Cartel
Getting around the Great Firewall, the system used by China to control Internet access, just got harder with a popular virtual private network forced to cease operating on orders from the government. GreenVPN sent a notice to customers that it would stop
Infighting and scandal are threatening the stranglehold the ANC has held on power since the end of apartheid. The parlous state of Africa’s oldest political movement, once revered for its role in ending white-minority rule
Moses Kgosana, who was due to take the role of Alexander Forbes chairman from the end of August, withdrew from the position after allegations emerged related to his tenure as CEO and senior partner at KPMG South Africa. KPMG
Andrew Fraser joins the TalkCentral regulars Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg this week to talk about everything tech (and plenty more besides). On the show, Andrew talks about his investigation into the Gupta sockpuppets
The rand has held up remarkably well this quarter, considering the headwinds: an economy in recession, credit ratings reduced to junk, a government mired in allegations of corruption and a ruling party distracted by a power struggle
Earlier this month, Caxton raised questions about Naspers’s complex control structure. At a Competition Tribunal hearing it contended that an inquiry was needed to determine who directs the company’s strategy. The tribunal ultimately rejected
The global cyberattack that has been wending its way across continents since Tuesday started creating real consequences at some businesses even as the virus’s spread seemed to be abating. FedEx said it could suffer a “material” financial