In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Stripe co-founder John Collison, who in 2016 became the youngest dollar billionaire in the world. Collison, who founded Stripe with is brother Patrick, talks
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Harry Pokrandt spent the last year scouring the Earth for real estate with two main characteristics. He needed cold weather, to keep his computer servers cool, and cheap electricity, to keep them running 24 hours a day.
Netflix stunned Wall Street by attracting fewer subscribers than expected last quarter, renewing concerns that the video-streaming service has become an investment bubble. The shares plunged as much as 15%.
MTN Group has sold 100% of its subsidiary in Cyprus for R4.1-billion. The Johannesburg-listed emerging-markets telecommunications group said on Monday before markets opened that it had sold the business
Facebook bestrides the Earth. It attracts nearly 1.5 billion users a day, commands a fifth of global online advertising revenue and has a market capitalisation that exceeds the GDP of many countries. But breaking it up is the wrong approach.
Clad in jeans and a gray sweatshirt, Amy Hood stands before a room of 140 Microsoft recruits. The feeling in the air is a bit like the first day of school, and new hires are taking selfies outside in front of a big Microsoft logo.
You have to give one thing to Facebook: confronted by a torrent of accusations of misbehaviour over the past 12 months, the world’s largest social network has at least made the effort to be conciliatory.
In the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg ask whether South Africa’s digital migration project is finally getting kicked into high gear. Also in the show this week, a wide-ranging
Google’s latest European Union woes could mean opportunity knocks for app developers stymied by contracts that preinstall the US giant’s own services on Android phones and tablets, according to analysts and companies
Elon Musk is a master storyteller. Production troubles at the Tesla plant? He’s building a submarine to rescue children from a Thai cave. The most-shorted stock on the market? He’s sending water filters to