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
“He awoke – and wanted Mars.” That’s the first line of Philip K Dick’s classic novella, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, the inspiration for the Total Recall films. I first came across the story in a sci-fi anthology back in high school
A few years ago, Google regularly traded barbs with major news publishers in public. Today, Google is rewiring its search engine to appease them. The company is scrapping a contentious search result rule for subscription news sites and
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Elon Musk’s plan to reduce planetary travel dramatically — and why did he call the rocket ship “BGR”? Also this week, thoughts on the
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who envisions a human colony on Mars, is planning to create a new, much larger rocket ship code named “BFR” capable of travelling anywhere on Earth in under an hour. If the concept
Altron subsidiary Bytes UK has agreed to buy 100% of Blenheim, the holding company of British value-added reseller Phoenix Software, for £35.9m, or about R650m. The deal will be funded through a combination
TymeDigital by Commonwealth Bank SA has become the first new bank to receive an operating licence from the South African Reserve Bank since 1999. The bank, set to become a full service digital bank, currently
Internet service provider Webafrica is splitting into two businesses, one focused on providing Internet access and the other providing hosting services. In a post on Webafrica’s website, CEO Tim Wyatt-Gunning said the company’s
Tesla, a perennial target of short sellers, is “structurally unprofitable” with a “way too leveraged” capital structure, said famed investor Jim Chanos. “Three years ago, this company was supposed to be making money now,” Chanos