S.Africa’s White Enclave Eyes Move To E-Cash

A whites-only enclave in South Africa has resisted the country’s multi-racial reality for more than two decades, even adopting its own paper money in its bid to promote self-sufficiency. Now Orania, a town of 1,400 established during the dying years of apartheid and protected by the constitution, is looking to take its “ora” currency digital. … Read more

Google Placed Its Own Ads First, Study Claims

Adverts for Google products occupied 91% of the top ad slots on the firm’s search results pages, in a study done for the Wall Street Journal. It looked at 1,000 results for 25 search terms including laptop, watches, speakers and smoke detectors on Google. Products sold by Google’s parent firm Alphabet dominated the top of … Read more