Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Former Amazon’s SVP of Devices and Services, Dave Limp, announced last week at Amazon’s 2023 Devices Event that he would be stepping down from the role he had held for more than a decade, and will replaced by former Microsoft Product Chief Panos Panay. Indeed, Limp’s resignation came as a shock, considering…

Amazon on Wednesday officially announced that former Microsoft product chief Panos Panay will join the company later this year to oversee its devices and services unit. Panos Panay will replace longtime Amazon devices head Dave Limp, who announced last month that he’d step down from his role in the coming months after more than…

Threads, an online social media and social networking service launched by Meta, is struggling to attract new users as it did during its blockbuster July debut. The Twitter clone now ranks near the bottom of the most popular social media platforms, ahead of only Tumblr, as measured by the number…

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Wednesday it will sell its Russia business to newly-launched exchange CommEX, becoming the latest company to pull out of Moscow since the country began its war against Ukraine. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, did not disclose the financial details of the deal. The company…

Google stands as the internet’s biggest name, a go-to source for answers to our countless questions. And today it’s Google’s 25th birthday, and the company is pulling out all the stops. First incorporated in 1998, Google turns a quarter of a century on Wednesday, and some of its products including search, hum to…

P1 Ventures, the Pan-African Seed VC fund combining local market knowledge, a global track record, and AI to unlock the continent’s huge and largely untapped potential has completed the first $25 million close of its second fund. Founded in 2020, P1 Ventures is a high-conviction investor that intentionally focuses on a…

On Monday, e-commerce giant Amazon announced that it will invest up to $4 billion (£3.2bn) in artificial intelligence firm Anthropic and take a minority ownership position in the company. The move underscores Amazon’s aggressive AI push as it looks to keep pace with rivals such as Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google. Anthropic was founded roughly two…

Last month we reported that X was going to launch a video and audio calls feature after that was also confirmed by the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino. Elon Musk has stated numerous times that he’s looking to turn X, into an “everything” app, and the ability to make audio and video…

Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is planning to shut down Circles, a feature that lets you share posts with a limited group of people instead of all of your followers. The company said in a “PSA” on Thursday that Circles will be disabled by October 31st. X wrote in a post on its…

Taking a leaf out of Twitter’s playbook, Reddit on Monday announced a contributor program, which awards users with real money for posting viral content on the social media platform. It also shared details on the replacement for its old Reddit Gold system that let users show extra appreciation for posts or posts…

Mercedes-Benz has partnered with Mastercard to introduce embedded in-car payments at the point of sale. Through this collaboration, customers will be able to use a fingerprint sensor in their car to complete convenient and secure digital payments at service stations in Germany. Mercedes-Benz is one of the first automakers to integrate Mastercard Secure…

MTN South Africa is currently embroiled in a protracted legal battle with former Chief Executive Mr. Ahmad Farroukh, who now serves as group CEO of Smile Communications, over the non-payment of his severance pay exceeding more than $1 million (R18.8 million). The legal battle with MTN still lingers more than…

Spotify has announced a new AI-powered feature that can translate podcasts into different languages using the host’s own voice, as part of a partnership with OpenAI, as Spotify becomes the latest to use generative AI for its products. The company said the feature relies on OpenAI’s voice generation technology, which announced Monday that it…

After banning AI art a year ago, Getty Images is officially getting into the AI image business. The company’s generative AI tool is particularly unique because it’s trained on Getty’s own database of images, and the resulting content also comes with a royalty-free license. That means you won’t have to worry about potential…

TikTok has taken the world’s attention in a big way, and for younger audiences, the app has almost become a go-to for all information, including for searches. Now, TikTok is testing the integration of Google search results into their own in-app searches in “some markets.” Earlier this week app researcher Radu…

Chinese electric car brand Nio on Thursday released its high-end Android smartphone, which the company expects at least half its users to buy. The smartphone is designed to be used with its electric vehicles (EVs), touting a plethora of related functions such as using the phone to instruct the car to park…

Microsoft recently announced that starting Nov. 1, large companies will be able to buy Microsoft 365 Copilot, its artificial intelligence supplement to core productivity apps such as Word and Excel. The launch of the AI tool will expand an already market-leading part of Microsoft’s business. Office applications contribute 24% of…

Have you yet noticed that Facebook’s logo is still blue, but it’s now a little more blue-ish? I guess not, and you’re not the only one who hasn’t really paid attention to it, so here is the update; Meta revamped its Facebook logo to a darker blue with a few…

Cisco is making a big bet on cybersecurity, acquiring software company Splunk. The deal recently announced is worth about $28 billion in cash for $157 per share, making it the network equipment giant’s biggest acquisition to date. In a statement, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said the deal would help “drive…

Vodacom Financial and Digital Lifestyle Services has partnered with Bidvest Bank to power the VodaPay Wallet. This partnership enables millions of South African consumers to seamlessly transact within VodaPay, which offers customers a platform by which money can be transferred into their digital wallets.  The VodaPay Wallet gives consumers full…