When Xiaomi’s founders were eating millet congee at an office in Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 2010, they decided to create a smartphone brand selling handsets at “honest” prices. Eight years later, Lei Jun and the

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Bytes UK, a subsidiary of JSE-listed technology group Altron, has secured a contract with the UK’s National Health Service worth £150m (R2.5bn). The £30m/year, five-year deal saw Bytes UK take the tender in

Niel Schoeman is stepping down as CEO of fibre-to-the-home provider Vumatel with immediate effect. He’s not leaving the company, however, and will take on the role of executive chairman. In a

Warren Buffett boosting his stake in Apple has pundits predicting it is poised to hit $1 trillion (R12.5 trillion) in market value. But the iPhone maker isn’t the first to tread that lofty path. PetroChina crossed

In late April, the top federal cybersecurity agency, US-Cert, announced that Russian hackers had attacked Internet-connected devices throughout the US, including network routers in private homes. Most

Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas, who was controversially fired from the position by former President Jacob Zuma, will join MTN Group as a nonexecutive director on 1 June, the Johannesburg-headquartered