Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Yobante Express (YES), Africa’s pioneering logistics technology start-up, announced its strategic alliance with SAPRESS Logistique & Messagerie, a subsidiary of the Edito Group, in a move set to redefine the logistics landscape in the Middle East and North Africa. This ground-breaking collaboration will extend YES’s influence into the thriving Moroccan…

Apple’s MacBook Pro lineup and colorful iMacs just got even faster. At an event with a tagline dubbed “scary fast” which was livestreamed on Monday night, Apple introduced its next-generation family of custom-made processors – the M3, M3 Pro and M3 Pro Max – and along with it, a handful…

Microsoft South Africa and Youth Employment Service (YES) have signed a new partnership agreement that seeks to provide artificial intelligence (AI) skills to 300 000 South African youth. The new AI initiative is part of Microsoft’s broader efforts to address unemployment and the digital skills gap in SA and other…

Lillian Barnard, President of Microsoft Africa, delivering a keynote presentation yesterday at Microsoft’s AI, A New Era event in Johannesburg highlighted that Microsoft is ramping up investments in the next wave of Africa’s artificial intelligence (AI) evolution, to support businesses to solve a myriad of challenges and unlock new opportunities. Discussing the…

TikTok has had a major impact on the music industry over the last few years, with many songs that have gone viral on the platform becoming major mainstream hits. The service is now making a bigger push into the industry by hosting its first-ever live music event. Dubbed the platform’s first “live global…

With concerns around generative AI ever-present, Google has announced an expansion of its Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) focused on AI-specific attacks and opportunities for malice. As such, the company released updated guidelines detailing which discoveries qualify for rewards and which fall out of scope. For example, discovering training data extraction that…

Threads finally have built-in options for posting GIFs and polls. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the updates on Thursday, replying with his own GIFs and polls to a string of users who’d questioned when these features would come to the platform. Both have begun rolling out for the Threads app and on…

TAILG Group signed formal cooperation with a Ghanaian startup, Kofa, a company focusing on battery swap networks, to jointly develop a battery swap electric motorcycle called Jidi, with first orders of the Jidi expected to arrive in Ghana at the end of 2023. The partnership with TAILG aims to deploy 200,000 electric vehicles and…

Huawei’s 2023 Seeds for the Future programme, which begins next month, will assist in providing further ICT upskilling to Zimbabwean technology undergraduate students. With high data costs and currency constraints to import software, many Zimbabwean business founders and students are finding it difficult to expand their tech expertise and talents.…

Meta’s increasingly aggressive push to promote Threads seems to be paying off. Mark Zuckerberg said the app currently has “just under” 100 million monthly active users, and that he thinks there’s a “good chance” the app could reach 1 billion users in the next couple of years. Zuckerberg said during the company’s…

Honda and GM are abandoning their plan to develop a line of affordable electric vehicles together. Under the program, which was announced in April 2022, the two had committed to building compact crossover EVs that would start at less than GM’s upcoming $30,000 electric Chevrolet Equinox. The first models were expected…

According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple plans to release new versions of several AirPods models next year. Apple’s wireless headphones business has become a moneymaker for the company and requires regular updates to keep the product fresh and demand high. Since they were first announced in 2016, Apple’s wireless white…

The Google-owned service, YouTube Music, announced an AI feature for customizing playlist art, as part of a bunch of features focused on personalization. So for YouTube Music listeners who need the aesthetics of their playlist art to match the music, the streaming app finally has a solution for that. YouTube Music users can…

Amazon on Wednesday said it will launch an independent cloud for Europe aimed at companies in highly regulated industries and the public sector. Amazon Web Services European Sovereign Cloud will be located within Europe and will be separate from the U.S. technology giant’s other cloud operations. Customers of the new system…

Apple sent invites on Tuesday for a launch event that will be streamed on its website on Oct. 30. The launch will be held at 8 p.m. ET, later than Apple’s typical launches, which usually kick off in the afternoon. New Mac laptops are expected, according to reports. Apple’s iMac and some…

The crowded field of X clones, formerly Twitter, has just winnowed a bit, as Pebble has officially thrown in the towel. The social media site, formerly called T2 Social, was actually created by ex-Twitter employees and this announcement occurred just five weeks after the rebrand to Pebble. Originally founded as T2,…

When you use your browser, your IP address is visible to websites, online services, and threat actors who can use that information against you for tracking and other privacy-invading actions. At the same time, IP addresses are also necessary for things like traffic routing and fraud prevention. If you’re not one of the…

Crypto Fest, a leading event for digital currencies and distributed ledger technology in Africa, is making a grand return on Friday, 24 November, uniting the community after a period of uncertainty. In the wake of unprecedented growth in the adoption and understanding of blockchain technology, organizers promise a beacon for…

Ethiopia’s entrepreneurial landscape is set to receive a significant boost as the Global Startup Awards (GSA) Africa Summit kicks off from Wednesday, 25 to Friday, 27 October at the Ethiopia Arts & Science Museum in Addis Ababa. This event marks a pivotal moment for the country, showcasing the nation’s potential…

MTN Group has announced the appointment of David Behr as the new CEO of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence (CoE), effective November 1, succeeding Vaughn Naidoo, who held the interim position. Behr, who has extensive expertise in the enterprise arena, including enterprise cloud, cybersecurity, Internet of Things solutions, and platform development, as well…