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At first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” seems fairly…

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns worldwide have challenged conventional ideas on how we work and what a workplace should…

Sherry Singh, CEO of Mauritius Telecom, today launched the my.t 5G Experience Zones at the Hennessy Park hotel, Ebene, in…

Payments company Square today announced it is buying Australian “buy now, pay later” provider Afterpay in a $29 billion or…

London-listed telecom firm Airtel Africa announced today plans to sell $200 million or R2.9 billion stake in the mobile money business, the Airtel…

InsurTech firm Flock announced on Thursday it has raised $17 million or R248 million to reinvent insurance for connected vehicles.…

Go1, one of the world’s largest corporate education content hubs for on-demand training and resources, recently announced a $200 million…

PayU, the payments and FinTech business of Prosus, has announced its collaboration with Celo, the mobile-first, open-source blockchain ecosystem focused…

Pick n Pay has rebranded the Bottles app into Pick n Pay ASAP! as the retailer sees a jump in…

The Internet revolutionised the world and has infiltrated nearly every aspect of our daily lives. More applications – e-commerce, social…

Swiggy, India’s online food delivery platform, raises $1.25 billion or R18 billion funding led by Prosus and SoftBank. This investment…

With the advent of electric vehicles in the mainstream, and the inevitable rise of EV population on South African roads…

Zoom announced it has agreed to buy Five9’s intelligent cloud contact centre for $14.7 billion or R213 billion. The popular video…

ICT tech company Huawei has announced plans to invest $150 million or R2.1 billion in youth digital talent development over…

The European antitrust authorities announced Thursday it has fined Daimler, BMW and VW nearly $1 billion or R14 billion for…

At the end of a very long, very expensive five years of testing and following a rigorous, strict application process,…

Mercedes-Benz announced today that it has sold a total of 121,500 plug-in-hybrids and all-electric cars worldwide in the first half…

Liquid Technologies and Facebook announced a partnership to build an extensive long haul and metro fibre network in the Democratic…

China has ordered ride-hailing service provider DiDi Chuxing off the country’s app stores until future approval after correction and review.…

During MWC Barcelona 2021, Huawei Executive Director and president of Carrier BG Ryan Ding said, operators have seen faster revenue…

SHAREit, the global internet technology company that has built numerous popular tools and digital entertainment content applications have confirmed Chanel…

BMW i Ventures, the venture capital arm of BMW Group, is spending $300 million or R4.2 billion to invest in…

Zoom announced it has bought Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions – Kites, a start-up dedicated to developing real-time Machine Translation (MT)…

The ACE submarine cable is now live and available for interconnection at three of Teraco’s data centres across South Africa,…

Naspers has published its integrated annual report for 2021, showing what its top executives were paid in the last year.…