Uber Technologies’ path to profit is likely to be slowed by growing competition as a significant number of customers are willing to wait around for a cheaper ride, according to analysts at HSBC.

Promoted | South Africans are increasingly adopting mobile technology and our trust in various apps and online processes is strengthening.

Interswitch, a Nigeria-based payments firm, has hired advisers to resurrect plans for a stock-market listing in London and Lagos later this year, people familiar with the matter said.

Promoted | Kabelo Makwane, MD for Accenture Operations in Africa, explains that technology alone is not a magic bullet and that successful operational transformation requires an holistic approach.

US President Donald Trump’s senior advisers have invited US technology companies to the White House to discuss a resumption of sales to blacklisted Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

Well-known South African hosting provider Hetzner has changed its name to Xneelo, it said on Monday.

Microsoft has agreed to invest $1-billion in a partnership with research group OpenAI, gaining a prominent cloud-computing customer from the artificial intelligence field.

In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about Vumatel’s plans to roll out fibre broadband in Mitchell’s Plain and Alexandra. Can fibre be delivered to lower-income and even poor areas profitably?

Africa’s potential workforce will likely be larger than that of Asia by the end of the 21st century as both continents wrestle with different demographic and economic challenges.

Like many people without children, I think I’d make a good parent and as such will rescue my child’s future through far-reaching proclamations. For example, I’d ban them from social media. By James Francis.