According to the latest ranking of the world’s richest people, published on Wednesday, Bill Gates still tops the list with a fortune of $75bn, while the net worth of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has leapt higher in the past year
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I’ve designed a mind experiment. If I had to invest all my savings in a single company, and had to choose either Apple, Google (now Alphabet) or Facebook, which one would it be? I would not be able
First National Bank will no longer actively develop its application for Windows-powered smartphones, it said on Thursday. It has also pulled the plug on development of its app for
Huawei is the world’s fastest-growing smartphone brand, according to new research from Gartner, with sales up by more than a half in the three months ended December 2015. With an increase in sales of 53% in the fourth quarter of last year, Huawei
Google has quietly launched a transactional video-on-demand service in South Africa through its Google Play platform. The launch of Google Play Movies comes two months after the US Internet giant launched its music streaming service
More than 70% of South African employees would use a wearable device in the workplace, allowing their employers to collect data on them. That surprising finding is contained in new research by PwC, which shows that fully 87% of employees would consider wearing a device such
How much would you pay to use YouTube? It’s a serious question. What if YouTube removed all those adverts? What if it offered exclusive content? Google, which owns YouTube, may soon have definitive answers to those questions. In late October last year, Google launched YouTube Red
Spare a thought for the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer. Nearly four years on the job, the ailing Internet giant is still struggling to deliver a credible path to growth. And following the US$4,3bn loss the company reported for the year in its latest results, the Yahoo board undercut her plan
There once was a dream. As the reading public moved, inevitably, from getting their news on dead trees to reading it on the Internet, vast amounts of money would follow. Fortunes awaited the brave. The logic was simple enough. As eyes moved to the Internet
What do Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Samsung all have in common? Sure, all six are technology companies, but the similarity runs much deeper. All six are now battling with each other to dominate the next wave of technology innovation