Clad in jeans and a gray sweatshirt, Amy Hood stands before a room of 140 Microsoft recruits. The feeling in the air is a bit like the first day of school, and new hires are taking selfies outside in front of a big Microsoft logo.
You have to give one thing to Facebook: confronted by a torrent of accusations of misbehaviour over the past 12 months, the world’s largest social network has at least made the effort to be conciliatory.
Bitcoin is headed for its biggest increase in two weeks on Monday amid a steady drip of news reports suggesting some of the biggest names in investing are starting to embrace digital currencies.
ZTE climbed as much as 15% after the US formally lifted a ban on its American technology purchases, allowing the Chinese telecommunications gear maker to resume business. The company’s shares marked
While Samsung Electronics has become synonymous with technology in South Korea, a controversial rival could upstage it in the race to build fifth-generation wireless networks in its own backyard. Huawei Technologies, the
Just three months after introducing a low-cost, 1GB WhatsApp data bundle costing only R10, MTN South Africa has hiked the price – for many users, at least – by 200%. Introduced in April, MTN said the price increase had
In the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg ask whether South Africa’s digital migration project is finally getting kicked into high gear. Also in the show this week, a wide-ranging
Early in Warren Buffett’s life, his father failed to get hired at the family grocery store during the Great Depression. Without a job, and without any money after a run on the banks, the family of four ran up a tab
Google’s latest European Union woes could mean opportunity knocks for app developers stymied by contracts that preinstall the US giant’s own services on Android phones and tablets, according to analysts and companies
Elon Musk is a master storyteller. Production troubles at the Tesla plant? He’s building a submarine to rescue children from a Thai cave. The most-shorted stock on the market? He’s sending water filters to