Forbes’ annual world’s billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2 755 billionaires, with Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year.

A key funder of South Africa’s renewable energy drive is backing natural gas as the fuel needed to help the country bridge the transition from coal power generation to the use of wind and solar.

Facebook shares hit a record on Monday, with the social media company taking out a peak that has stood since August as fears fade about the impact of new privacy policies from Apple.

To understand why the $450-billion semiconductor industry has lurched into crisis, a helpful place to start is a $1 part called a display driver.

A US car industry group on Monday urged the government to help as it warned the global semiconductor shortage could result in 1.28 million fewer vehicles built this year.

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Promoted | In a bid to provide a viable solution to the major challenges associated with last-mile logistics in Africa, And Africa LLC has launched a pilot of its ECD (Easy Collect & Drop) last-mile delivery service in South Africa.

Eskom said on Monday that it has put “contingency measures” in place to reduce the risk of its reliance on software from US technology firm Oracle, with which it is in a contractual dispute.

In this extract from At Any Cost, a book on convicted South African fraudster Elan Eyal, author Stephen Timm explains how tech entrepreneurs like Eyal are able to hoodwink angel investors.