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Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, today announced Romain Voog as CEO of OLX Group. Serving…

Jeff Bezos and other Silicon Valley investors are taking a bet on an accounting startup Pilot that seeks to help…

New York-based Chainalysis has raised $100 million (R1, 5 billion) and is now valued at over $2 billion (R30 billion). The…

The consultancy agreement between Explore AI, a Cape Town-based technology consulting company, and British water utility Thames Water has been…

London-listed Helios Towers announced on Tuesday plans to buy the towers of Airtel Africa. The company said it has signed…

Softbank and Tencent are taking a $300 million (R4.5 billion) bet on PatSnap, an Innovation Intelligence (IP) analytics platform. The…

At yesterday’s annual presentation, MTN played Nigeria’s popular Afrobeats music, which has grown into a global force. That reminded me…

Dropbox, one of the most popular cloud storage solutions in the world, today announced it has entered into a definitive…

MTN Group today announced the appointment of Chika Ekeji as Executive: Strategy and Transformation as part of plans to further…

Iconic beauty products firm Avon plans to leverage the vast appetite for mobile services in Africa to grow women entrepreneurs.…

Bolt, a ride-hailing and e-scooter firm, has secured a €20 million (R364 million) war chest of funds to expand in…

The future of Volvo Cars is electric and the new Volvo C40 Recharge is the latest manifestation of its commitment…

Volvo Cars is committed to becoming a leader in the fast-growing premium electric car market and plan to become a…

Klarna has become the highest-valued private FinTech in Europe and the second-highest worldwide. The Swedish buy now, pay later behemoth…

Vodacom and Mondia announced today the rollout of the Mum & Baby maternal health service across the Democratic Republic of…

“As we look towards recovery,” Hu said, “we need to ensure that innovation isn’t just about today. It’s about lighting up tomorrow and creating greater social value.”

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday announced a proposal to use $3.2 billion in emergency funds to subsidize…

Netflix today launched a new feature called “Downloads For You”, which will automatically download recommended shows or movies to your…

IBM today announced that it will achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to further its decades-long work to address…

VerPay, a South African FinTech company, launches a payment solution that enables ‘verbal commerce’. The novel Coronavirus has necessitated the…

Investment firm Finsbury is taking MyBucks, a FinTech company owned by JSE-listed Afristrat, to court in the UK. The battle…

Former executives at South Africa’s VSS Financial Services (VSS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Frankfurt-listed Fintech and African banking group MyBucks,…

Huawei’s CEO Ren Zhengfei has pledged to stick to a globalisation strategy despite external pressure. He has called on the…

MTN announced it plans to sell its 20% associate stake in Belgacom International Carrier Services SA (BICS) to Proximus Group…

Facebook said in a statement that it plans to remove posts with false claims that COVID-19 vaccines are “toxic, dangerous…