It’s becoming standard practice for US technology giants to follow the letter of European rulings and regulations without really changing their behaviour. Most recently, Facebook and Google have exhibited just a

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Alex Thomson, co-founder of a new insurtech company called Naked, which hopes to use technology – including artificial intelligence – to take

South Africa’s Afro Voice newspaper will publish its last edition on Friday, less than a year after the Gupta family sold the publication’s publisher to an ally of former President Jacob Zuma, according to two people

And then there were none. At the dawn of 2018, three African phone tower companies had dreams of selling shares in London or New York. The most optimistic estimates pegged their potential combined valuation at

Airbnb’s Brian Chesky is trying to soothe the masses. The co-founder and CEO of the home-sharing website told employees on Thursday that it will pay them cash bonuses and is aiming to hold an IPO before late

If trade unions accept Eskom’s latest wage offer, workers in the Eskom bargaining unit will receive above-inflation wage increases for the next three years. According to Solidarity deputy general secretary for energy

Bitcoin sank further below $6 000 on Friday, heading for a second straight month of declines at around 20%, as demand for the largest cryptocurrency continues to suffer from security and regulatory concerns

Jens Montanana, CEO of JSE-listed technology services group Datatec, bagged a cool $3.5-million (about R48.5-million at the time of writing) in the 2018 financial year for the successful sale of its Westcon

South Africa’s cash-strapped power utility is “a threat” to the nation’s investment strategy, finance minister Nhlanhla Nene said on Thursday. The government plans to offer incentives to lure $100-billion

The first transatlantic broadband submarine cable in the southern hemisphere, the South Atlantic Cable System, will begin carrying its first commercial traffic within the next three months, providing a more