Your data is giving Big Tech control of everything and only a huge shift by the people can halt it
Hevea brasiliensis, the rubber tree, had thrived in the Far East, where it had been transplanted and organised into rubber plantations
New rules require internet retailers like Amazon to collect a 10% goods and services tax on everything bought from overseas sites from July 1
Sagarmatha Technologies has punted itself as the next tech giant – in the same vein as Amazon and Google
Analysts doubt the listing of media assets will succeed. But will the PIC provide the funds?
The price paid per game by broadcasters has dropped by a cool million euros
Amazon said this week it had received 238 pitches from places across North America vying to be home to its second headquarters.
‘What three-year-old wants to hear a cartoon song when he can have an annoying comedy parody alert?’
Google parent Alphabet is joining tests for drone deliveries as the White House unveiled accelerated rule-making for commercial unmanned aircrafts.
Amazon and Penguin Random House are allegedly in a dispute over the terms of a new contract for online sales.
Award-winning author Ursula le Guin speaks out against greedy publishers
Amazon says it will take its chances in the smartphone market despite the poor ratings of its Fire phone, but can it survive among the other big boys?
Esports makes for compelling viewing for millions of ordinary gamers, especially when prize money is in the trillions, writes Alistair Fairweather.
The online retail giant’s battle with the publisher Hachette goes to the very heart of the massive changes that pummel the publishing industry.
Despite the launch of its new smartphone, Amazon should not be compared to Apple or Samsung.
Johnny Depp’s film "Transcendence" highlights that the battle for "the singularity" – the merging of man and machine – is closer than we think.
This week, the ANC and the public protector spar about Nkandla, Dina Pule must apologise and Santa’s drones deliver gifts.
Major companies like Amazon are looking to outsource their call centres to SA, listing South Africans’ "English premium voice quality" as ideal.
Four years of scientific expeditions have uncovered previously unknown animals and plants in the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
European bookshops are taking a stand against competition from the Internet, boosted by a renaissance in independent stores and an enhanced know-how.
British retailer hopes to grow its business in a difficult economic climate.
Google is rumoured to be opening retail stores later this year. Alistair Fairweather looks at why the search engine business needs retail presence.
Record Christmas takings have swollen Amazon’s cash pile to as much as $9-billion, the online retailer is expected to declare.
A sales war could determine whether Apple, Google or Amazon will dominate the fastest-growing area of personal computing.
Britain’s Pearson and Germany’s Bertelsmann are to merge their publishing units, Penguin and Random House, to recover ground lost to Amazon and Apple.
A fierce row has broken out over a plan to drive a road through the Amazon, imperilling the future of some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes.
A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.
Bookstores around the world have been shutting their doors in the face of what looks a lot like publishing Armageddon. What’s a bibliophile to do?
An unprecedented land grab for new web addresses has begun with fierce competition for new internet real estate including .app, .blog and .web.
Greenpeace says British consumers are unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the Amazon rainforest by buying meat products from Tesco.
All eyes are fixed on Brazil’s president as she considers a forest code that could spell the end of vital parts of the Amazon and other forests.
It was started by a handful of isolated enthusiasts, gradually became a cult craze, and is now threatening to become a commercial enterprise.