About 65% of South Africans 16 and older now have access to the Internet, an increase of two percentage points on last year, according to new research commissioned by Google. The 2017 Connected
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IBM is increasing the pressure on Google in the battle to commercialise quantum computing technology. Quantum computers hold the promise of being able to solve difficult problems from fields
All South Africa’s national parks are now on Google’s Street View imaging platform. The company, working with a team of South Africans, has released a large collection of 360-degree imagery from the parks
In the past few years, much has been made of the performance of the “Fang” stocks in the US. The acronym refers to four high-growth technology companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (now Alphabet). The shares of all four
Banks around the world have spent the past few years preparing for competition from small, nimble technology start-ups. It turns out the real threat may be Jeff Bezos. Financial institutions have parried the threat from fintech firms by
Software is so disappointing. It was supposed to – in the words of one sage – eat the world, the implication being that it would be modern, brilliant, liberating, hip and fun (assuming it didn’t make you and your job obsolete
Dropbox has introduced a new cloud-based file-sharing option for individual business users and a new feature for marketing and creative workers to share projects, seeking to lure more paying customers ahead of an expected public share
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod speaks to well-known investor, trader and stock market commentator Simon Brown, founder of Just One Lap, on investing
Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company’s size has made it too attractive as a target for government regulators. The two-day retreat in Monterey
My thoughts tend to go to dark places these days. And so when I watched Google on Wednesday trot out one after another of its homegrown computing devices for every task and every nook of our homes, I went straight to dystopia