Travis Kalanick made Uber a global force by breaking all the rules. The next chief executive will have to be a diplomat, power-sharer and defender of the internal controls long neglected at the world’s most valuable start-up. It’s

Four years after Blackstone Group and Silver Lake Management battled to take Dell private, buyout firms are back in the market for big leveraged technology deals. BMC Software, owned by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital

At the rate foreign investors are deserting South African stocks, the country’s main index should be in decline. It’s not, thanks largely to two shares that draw their strength from Hong Kong and Zurich. The JSE’s benchmark is up 0.6%

Cell C is seeking to cut its debt by 73% as part of a deal that will help South Africa’s third largest mobile phone operator sell a stake to Blue Label Telecoms while retaining its operating licence, according to two people

Xineoh, a technology start-up based in Bloemfontein, has just secured US$2m in venture capital funding, giving it a valuation of $10m, or more than R130m at the current exchange rate. The company, which specialises in artificial

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Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has ignited a flaring grass fire with recommendations around a R1.2bn bailout paid to a local bank between 1986 and 1995. Known as the Bankorp/Absa lifeboat

Apple has long proved adept at negotiating China’s notoriously challenging market, responding to fickle consumer tastes and unpredictable regulation far more adeptly than its competitors. But a recent decision to start taking

Uber Technologies CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, capping a series of controversies that have rocked the world’s largest privately backed start-up. The company confirmed Kalanick’s departure from the top executive’s

Vodacom claims to have become the first telecommunications operator in South Africa to achieve a speed test, across a mobile network, of more than 500Mbit/s. It achieved the speed using LTE-Advanced technology, also