In the latest episode of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg ask whether ADSL is dying. Also this week, MTN achieves 400Mbit/s over LTE, rumours about the next iPhone, Jeff Bezos may soon be the world’s richest man and the Nasdaq cracks
Motorists will have to dig deeper into their pockets next month as the price of petrol is set to increase by 49c/l. In a statement on Thursday, the department of energy said both grades of petrol, 93 and 95 (ULP and LRP), will rise by 49c
Satya Nadella’s plan to reshape Microsoft as a cloud computing company hit a snag in the third quarter, when lacklustre sales of Surface tablets and weaker demand for corporate software support services kept revenue growth in check. Adjusted sales
After struggling for years to wring profit from the mobile boom, Google is benefiting from a surge in clicks on ads on smartphones. Capitalising on consumers’ shift toward handsets and away from
A surge in after-hours trading for Amazon.com added US$3,3bn to the fortune of Jeff Bezos, putting him less than $5bn away from becoming the world’s richest person. Bezos saw his fortune surpass $80bn for the first time
Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing raised more than $5,5bn from investors, scoring the single largest round of funding on record to bankroll an expansion beyond China and into driver-less technology. Didi disclosed the financing in an
In this TechCentral podcast interview, Duncan McLeod chats to South African Internet pioneer, movie maker, investor and entrepreneur Ronnie Apteker about the (excellent) new South African film Beyond the River, which he helped produce. In a
The idea is certainly audacious: thwart traffic in congested cities by flying over it. Quick, quiet, clean, cheap. This concept – which requires a new type of battery-powered vertical takeoff and landing vehicle
The SABC is in talks with national treasury to secure a guarantee to help it claw its way out of a financial crisis after it failed to pay some of its content suppliers in March and
A court ruling that the government failed to comply with the constitution when it initiated a process to build new atomic power plants has dealt a major blow to President Jacob Zuma’s nuclear ambitions. The Western Cape
