Roku’s trading debut has catapulted it among the biggest gainers for newly listed technology and communications stocks as investors bet on the success of streaming video. The shares closed at a high on its first day of trading
Naspers is spending €660m, or about R10.6bn, increasing its stake in one of Europe’s fastest-growing online food order and delivery businesses, Delivery Hero. For the money, Naspers is buying an additional 13% of the
In case it wasn’t obvious before Wednesday, Amazon.com has leapfrogged the smartphone to go after the next era of computing. The company never could have done this if it hadn’t been steamrolled in smartphones first. The way
GoPro has unveiled the latest version of its Hero line of wearable action cameras and its first spherical device for virtual-reality video, marking the company’s efforts to boost sagging demand with higher-end hardware. The waterproof
A rapidly growing number of companies are taking advantage of cryptocurrencies to raise massive amounts of funding through what are called initial coin offerings, or ICOs. It is not just technology companies that
Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) has suspended the membership of both Eskom and Transnet with immediate effect, citing the state-owned enterprises’ connection with “extensive allegations of corrupt behaviour over
Three years ago, Brendan Greene was on welfare in his hometown of Kildare, Ireland, getting an earful from social workers about how he should stop wasting time developing free computer games. “They were
Apple has a yield problem. The company is struggling to boost production yields quickly enough to ship a device that accounts for more than 60% of annual revenue. Cobbling together various media reports, it seems
As the battle to succeed President Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC grows increasingly fractious, party treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize is emerging as a possible compromise choice to keep the continent’s oldest
Dark Fibre Africa, the fibre telecommunications company in which JSE-listed Remgro holds a 50.9% stake, is in talks to buy fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure provider Vumatel, according to