Weekly Roundup #17: Sapa, Tag Heuer smartwatch, Elon Musk, WeChat’s Picup and Nintendo

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days.

This edition is once again pared down, with Jacques Coetzee and Andy Walker joining Stuart Thomas talking Elon Musk, Sapa, the latest from Nintendo, and the latest South African startup to take on the on-demand delivery space.

No stranger to headlines, Musk once again got the tech press talking with his prediction that driving your own car would be illegal once autonomous cars become the norm.

Equally controversial, but more focused in the present was the directive from news wire agency Sapa that its subscribers, including online news sites delete all their archived Sapa content. The requirement, while legally correct, could have a massive impact on the legacy content of those sites.

And while Sapa may have established news sites worrying, a new WeChat-backed company called PicUp could do the same to startups in South Africa’s on-demand delivery space.

From a very new company to a very old company producing very new things. The team talks about Japanese gaming giant Nintendo’s new console and its push into mobile gaming. Also on the Gearburn front is the imminent death of Internet Explorer and Google coming together with Intel and Tag Heur to launch a smart watch.