In the social and political saga surrounding the question of network neutrality, what is often overlooked is the data war going on behind the scenes. The real fuel behind the debate is the enormous volume of data we generate
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Entities involved in South Africa’s national payment system, including BankservAfrica and the Payments Association of South Africa, have begun work on a major architectural and technical overhaul to facilitate
Many people working in the technology industry today got their start on a machine made by Commodore International — a Vic-20, a Commodore 64 or, if they were lucky enough, an Amiga. A new documentary movie, to be released
Critics of bitcoin often argue that it’s useless as a means of payment, one of the key elements of any successful currency. That’s not quite right, and likely to become less so. First, a reminder on how bitcoin works. If I want to send someone
Netflix surged in late trading after a blow-out quarter, vaulting past US$100bn in market value for the first time to put the video service on a lofty perch with the likes of Goldman Sachs Group and Qualcomm. The world’s largest online
fter months of tinkering, Amazon.com has finally deemed its cashier-free convenience store ready for business. Amazon Go, as the outpost is called, opened its doors to the public on Monday. The US store is outfitted with
Richemont’s decision to plough €2.7bn into e-commerce by buying out Yoox Net-a-Porter is a wake-up call to sceptics who thought consumers would never buy US$5 000 Cartier necklaces and $50 000 Vacheron
Facebook acknowledged on Monday that social media can have a negative impact on democracies, and that the company has more work to do in order to ensure that the good outweighs the bad. “From the Arab Spring to robust elections around the
Over the past five years, JSE-listed Naspers was the third-fastest growing technology stock in the world with a current market valuation above US$100bn, pipped only to the post by Tencent, in second place, in which it has a 33.2% stake
There’s a compelling reason to consider what’s going on with cryptocurrencies a purely speculative boom-and-bust roller-coaster: over a three-month period, the prices of all the top coins and tokens are rather strongly correlated