The stock market is a weighing machine of companies’ potential rather than their current circumstances. That is doubly true for Amazon.
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Amazon.com shares rose as much as 1.9%, pushing the company briefly beyond a market value of US$1-trillion, a milestone Apple reached just last month.
On the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about former communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda’s startling claims about why he was fired by Jacob Zuma, plus more on Apple’s upcoming keynote.
Apple has set 12 September as its most important day of the year when the world’s most valuable public company will unveil the next iPhones.
Apple has acquired Akonia Holographics, a six-year-old maker of displays for augmented reality glasses, as the iPhone maker explores a foray into the burgeoning field.
Storm clouds are brewing over the global technology industry. A host of hardware companies are sitting on inventory stockpiles not seen since the financial crisis a decade ago.
Apple proved one thing this year: it can charge whatever it wants for iPhones. Its growth rests on its ability to maintain that pricing power.
Apple is not only doubling down on the iPhone X, it’s tripling down. The world’s most valuable company plans to launch three new phones soon that keep the edge-to-edge screen design of last year’s flagship.
On the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about Nvidia’s new ray-tracing GPUs, Telkom’s unhappiness with Icasa, Nikon’s new mirrorless cameras and Apple’s forthcoming keynote.
If you need proof that giant technology companies behave a lot like borderless governments, look no further than the brewing “app store taxes” debate.