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Fast Company Showcasing innovative businesses that are changing their industries. Providing you with listings of businesses, business tips and recommended business resources.Uber Files: The Shocking version
Like Facebook before it, Uber is dealing with the public relations fallout following the leak of thousands of confidential documents. And it’s not painting a pretty picture of the company’s early days. The data dump, […]
Jony Ive is no longer designing for Apple
In 2019, Apple’s Chief Design Officer Jony Ive announced that he was leaving the company to start his own design firm alongside longtime friend Marc Newson. One of his clients however would continue to be […]
E-commerce is not killing retail stores. It’s giving them new powers.
E-commerce boomed during the pandemic. That, coupled with widespread store closures, led many retail pundits to predict the final death of physical stores. In some ways, they were right. Approximately 50,000 (5.7%) stores in the […]
The consumer view of Uber is waning
A large AI-assisted sentiment analysis shows that Uber is among the least-loved brands among consumers. The study, conducted in 2021 by the branding agency MBLM, analyzed the use of more than 1.4 billion keywords on […]
Meet Kubik: The 2022 African Startup of the Year
Kidus Asfaw, Kubik founder, speaking in Cape Town after receiving the 2022 African Startup of the Year Award at the Global Startup Awards. It was all too humbling to meet Africans from all corners of […]
The Great gathering of African startups
This week marked a significant moment for the African startup ecosystem as many gathered for the first time in two years at the Global Startup Summit and Awards 2022. After a prolonged period of gathering […]
Inside the latest issue of Fast Company (SA) Digital magazine
After 750 days the South African President ended the State of emergency marking an end to lockdowns. This period kept some indoors, out of work and disconnected. At the same time, there were people who […]
How to structure a functioning board for tech startup?
It’s lonely at the top. Or at least it can be. As a first-time CEO the biggest adjustment for me is knowing that I’m now where the buck stops. I’ve held other C-suite roles before […]
Elon Musk to get full access to Twitter data
Elon Musk’s standoff with Twitter over data regarding bot accounts has taken a new twist. The social media site agreed on Wednesday to meet Musk’s demands for access to its full data stream, according to […]
Meet the man (Olivan) who will takeover from the leading woman at Facebook (Meta) Sheryl Sandberg
As chief operating officer of Meta, Sheryl Sandberg was one of the company’s most prominent voices for more than a decade. Sandberg announced her departure from Meta (formerly Facebook) on Wednesday, and longtime employee Javier […]
Sheryl Sandberg steps down from Facebook-parent Meta, her legacy is debatable
Sheryl Sandberg announced in a Facebook post Wednesday that her 14-year tenure with Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has come to an end. In 2008, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recruited Sandberg, who had served at […]
Why Media companies must embrace e-Commerce
E-commerce has become an essential part of today’s world, and media publishers who haven’t already gotten on board with it should immediately start finding strategies that could work for them. “This is too big a […]
How early stage startups can deal with the changing VC landscape
Benchmark’s Bill Gurley tweeted in April 2022, “An entire generation of entrepreneurs and tech investors built their entire perspectives on valuation during the second half of a 13-year amazing bull market run.” With VCs raising […]
In Search of better Future of Work for drivers on Uber
In the same week that Uber showcased a piloted a robot to deliver food in the US, the ride hailing/food delivery company hosted a “Future of Work” event in South Africa. During the same period […]
All you need to know about Elon Musk Twitter takeover
Twitter has reached a deal to allow itself to be acquired by Elon Musk for $54.20 a share, or approximately $44 billion, in an all-cash transaction, the company said Monday. The stunning announcement follows weeks […]
Google finally takes Africa seriously
Big Tech companies have always treated Africa as just a storefront for their wares. This has been evident when one looks at senior appointments across these companies in the African continent. Most of the executives […]
Netflix wants to stop password sharing, is it possible?
Netflix is entering uncharted territory as it tries to turn password sharers into paying customers. After a historically rough quarter in which the streaming giant lost 200,000 subscribers—and forecasted losing 2 million more in the […]
WATCH: Elon Musk shares his reasons for buying Twitter at TED
Hours after making an offer to buy Twitter, Elon Musk appeared at the 2022 TED Conference on Thursday and laid out his vision for free speech on the platform. “A good sign if there is […]
How Twitter can fight Elon Musk takeover bid
Elon Musk’s $43 billion hostile takeover attempt of Twitter might be one of the most-expected “surprise” acquisition offers in recent history. After Musk said he would, then wouldn’t, join the company’s board, Twitter CEO Parag […]
Flutterwave dark cloud should serve as a lesson to the Tech ecosystem
Today it’s Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola the Chief Executive Officer of Africa’s most valued technology startup – Flutterwave, the other day it was Elizabeth Holmes, and not so long ago it was Travis Kalanick the man […]
Elon Musk is no longer joining Twitter board
What a wild week it’s been for Twitter. First, last Monday, Elon Musk announced he’d bought a 9.2% stake in the company, and the next day he announced he’d become an active investor in the […]
Elon Musk is joining Twitter to lead a revolution
“First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power” tweeted Dick Costolo on his first day as the Chief Operations Officer at Twitter in 2009, that joke became a reality just […]
This SA born Venture Capitalist is taking over the world
When Roelof Botha was still at school in South Africa, he attended a Nerd Camp where he met Matthew Rabinowitz who would later establish Natera, a life-saving health tech company. Later they reconnected in the […]
SA is losing Tech intellectual property, Startup Act can stop the leak
South African-born Elon Musk is one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs however his business has brought nothing to his country of birth. In his defence many have argued that had Elon Musk built his […]
