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As a tech journalist, I’ve been guilty of calling people out for using the swear-word of all browsers: Internet Explorer. I sat at my office desk, a flat-white drinking Android campaigner and avid eyebrow raiser at anyone who would steer away from the browser of the gods: Google Chrome. I must admit, I had little reason to champion it besides the fact that my life revolved around its artificial intelligence powered virtual assistant, Google Assistant, and the overarching power of Alphabet Inc...

Lab-grown diamonds hold greater appeal to millennials than mined – With insights from The Wall Street Journal Full membership of The Wall Street Journal is bundled with subscriptions to BizPremium, which also includes access to a weekly webinar with top SA stock market experts, an exclusive monthly update on the top performing BizNews Share portfolio, an interactive WhatsApp group and Alec Hogg’s daily Rational Perspective newsletter. All for just R105 (£4.99) a month – for more details...

Full membership of The Wall Street Journal is bundled with subscriptions to BizPremium, which also includes access to a weekly webinar with top SA stock market experts, an exclusive monthly update on the top performing BizNews Share portfolio, an interactive WhatsApp group and Alec Hogg’s daily Rational Perspective newsletter. All for just R105 (£4.99) a month – for more details click here.  Use Spotify? Access BizNews podcasts here. Use Apple Podcasts? Access BizNews podcasts here. Cov...

The Chinese economy is expected to be the world’s largest by 2030. It has emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic in relatively good shape. But will it power up its trading partners? In this article, The Wall Street Journal’s Nathaniel Taplin argues that China’s heavy industrial complex could easily cool in the second half of next year. China is a major trading partner to South Africa. For more BizNews articles on China, click here. Full membership of The Wall Street Journal is bundled with su...

Amazon to train 29m people to work in the cloud – With insights from The Wall Street Journal Seattle-based online giant Amazon wants to train some 29 million people from Montana to Nigeria to work in the cloud by 2025. The company announced at the height of South Africa’s lockdown in June that it would add 3,000 jobs , bringing its overall workforce in the country to 7,000. Amazon South Africa customer service director Andrew Raichlin shared that the company was excited to “help keep peop...

Here’s a very sobering piece from financial planner Alec Riddle, who looks at the relationship between how long you work and how long you’re likely to enjoy your retirement. Citing some interesting research, Alec argues that those who continue to work right up to the maximum retirement age tend to have shorter retirements than their peers who retire younger. This article will certainly make you think about your own retirement plans and strategy, especially if you’re like me and hoping to ...