When the cryptocurrency exio coin starts a round of fundraising on 7 September, its founders say the unit will come with a unique distinction: the first to be endorsed by a sovereign nation. The identity of the government backer won’t
Most of the research on phone addiction and deprivation is done on students. It’s not just the “kids these days”, though. At 45, I’m a recovering addict. It’s been four months since I uninstalled social networking apps, three
MTN and Vodacom have tied for first place in terms of mobile broadband coverage in South Africa, a comprehensive set of data points analysed by OpenSignal has shown. The report by the company, which specialises in
South Africa has a leadership problem. Our president and many members of his cabinet are so deeply compromised, that they are simply unable to be effective. This problem has been allowed to fester because nobody
Google has had impressive augmented reality technology for years, but few ways to get millions of people using it. The company thinks it has software to fix that now. Tango, Google’s 3D mapping system launched as
Mustek has reported a 5.7% increase in full-year headline earnings per share and an impressive 30.7% improvement in net cash generated from operations, though slow spending by government has put pressure
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Google faces a Tuesday deadline to tell the European Union how it plans to comply with an order to stop discriminating against rival shopping search services under threat of new fines that would add to a record €2.4bn
The end is nigh for cash, or so a wide range of academics, fintech venture capitalists and futurists would have us believe. Soon we will pay for goods and services with some combination of smartphones, biometrics and tiny chips
Uber Technologies’ incoming CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, inherits an embattled global business with crises sprawling across continents. Since Uber’s founding in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has tested the world’s