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Published: 6:00am, 12 Jun, 2019 Updated: 6:00am, 12 Jun, 2019

Nathan Furr, assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD, researches what makes great innovative leaders, and he reveals how they develop and spend innovation capital. Like social or political capital, its a power to motivate employees, win the buy-in of stakeh…

Nathan Furr, assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD, researches what makes great innovative leaders, and he reveals how they develop and spend innovation capital. Like social or political capital, its a power to motivate employees, win the buy-in of stakeh…

In a live conversation on Monday, United Nations’ Secretary-General António Guterres formed a 20-member high-level panel, co-chaired by Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma and philanthropist Melinda Gates. This independent expert group called on governments, the private…

Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Belinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, led a UN panel and the release of a report into digital cooperation that aims to make sure the benefits of digital development reaches all. The panel and report i…

Jack Ma (L, front) of China's Alibaba Group and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (R, front) arrive to attend a high-level panel on digital cooperation at the UN Headquarters in New York, June 10, 2019. Jack Ma of China's Aliba…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) An independent U.N. panel called Monday for much greater cooperation to bring digital technology to roughly half the world's people, and a senior Google executive said mobile phones with internet access are being created to sell for about …

The digital future must be safer and more inclusive, says a new tech report, the Age of Digital Interdependence, released on Monday by the UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, almost a year after the Panel was launched by Secretary-General António Gute…

Steven Knipp formerly was the Washington correspondent for the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. Image: A rally of more than a million people who swarmed the city’s Happy Valley Race Course, to protest the killings.  To the right, young Hong Kongers …

Global e-commerce is growing at a remarkable 18% a year, with online sales in South Africa going mainstream with an amazing R14billion in revenue in 2018. Photo: Nokuthula Mbatha/African News Agency (ANA) Naseema Adams has had enough. She has decided to clos…