Amazon.com’s shares topped US$1 000 for the first time on Tuesday, marking a new milestone for a company wooing investors by dominating online commerce and cloud computing. Amazon shares hit $1 001,20 in New York
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In the wake of the significant news this week that Microsoft will open two Azure data centre facilities in South Africa, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with Jon Tullett, research manager for IT services for Africa at research
Google has been trying to move beyond advertising for some time, with mixed results. At its annual I/O developer conference this year, the company multiplied efforts to make money in
JSE-listed speciality finance company Capital Appreciation has acquired financial technology firm Synthesis for R132,1m. Synthesis is a specialised fintech company that provides software development, consulting and integration
Google’s artificial intelligence software is already inside Android phones, smart speakers and watches. At the Google I/O conference this week, it plans to bring it to at least three more places: iPhones, coffee tables and kitchens.
Ever since a 2010 Las Vegas electronics exhibition, drones have entered the mainstream. There’s been a swift change in perception from drones being military weapons, to cool toys, with some commercial application. It’s the commercial application
Amazon.com will dominate Google in the voice-activated speaker market for the next few years due to the early breakout success of its Echo speaker, according to a forecast from research firm EMarketer. More than 35m Americans will speak
Amazon.com and Google parent company Alphabet posted results last week that extended their dominance of how we shop and search online. Apple and Facebook will in the coming days add evidence that tech behemoths command
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
A Cambridge University-educated mathematician is hoping to shake up South Africa’s cloud computing sector with a new, vendor-neutral cloud platform hosted in Teraco’s fast-expanding data centres.