Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

In an internal memo sent to staff, William Mzimba has resigned as CEO of Vodacom Business, a subsidiary of JSE-listed Vodacom Group, and will be leaving the company at the end of September 2023. After five impactful years as Chief Officer of Vodacom Business, William Mzimba will be retiring from…

A federal judge will not block Microsoft from closing its $69 billion deal to acquire video game giant Activision Blizzard, a defeat for US regulators who had asked for a temporary injunction while legal challenges to the merger unfold. The deal will make Microsoft the third-largest video game publisher in the…

Broadcom Inc., a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, received conditional approval today from the European Commission (EC) to complete its acquisition of VMware for $ 61 billion, meanwhile, in the US, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is also currently investigating the deal. With…

The Neo Touch is Yoco’s latest addition to their range of next-generation card machines made for small to medium businesses who want to get paid, fast.  An internal team of engineers and industrial designers paved the way for the Neo Touch, which took nearly 15 months to develop. It is…

eBay Inc., a global commerce leader that connects millions of sellers and buyers around the world, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Certilogo, a provider of AI-powered apparel and fashion goods digital IDs and authentication. When eBay first announced the purchase back in May, the company said the acquisition marked…

The British High Commission’s UK-SA Tech Hub has committed to a second round of funding for the SA Start-up Act Movement (SUA). Initiated in 2020, the SUA is a collective of South African start-up investors, incubators, accelerators, and founders. It has called on the government to implement a comprehensive Act to reinvigorate SA’s start-up…

In a bid to improve upon the current capabilities of appointment scheduling, the Google Calendar feature which allows users to share their availability via a booking page, has launched a new feature that allows professionals or freelancers to allow their customers to book paid appointments. Admins and end-users may be impacted,…

Apple has launched an online store on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app in China, as the iPhone giant steps up the expansion of its retail channels in one of its most important markets. Users can access so-called “Mini Programs,” which are effective apps within WeChat. That means users don’t need to download loads of…

Microsoft revealed a new round of job cuts that will affect various roles in support, sales, and customer services a week after the start of its 2024 fiscal year. The revealed cuts extend beyond the 10,000 global layoffs which Microsoft had previously announced on January 18. For Microsoft, whose fiscal year…

Alibaba has launched an artificial intelligence tool dubbed Tongyi Wanxiang that can generate images from prompts. The AI tool allows users to input prompts in Chinese and English and the AI tool will generate an image in various styles such as a sketch or 3D cartoon. Alibaba’s cloud division, which launched…

Snap has announced that it’s rolling out an integration with Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat. It’s a move that has been long-awaited, as Snap was late in allowing links in creator profiles. However, this partnership with Linktree will finally make it possible. Linktree, a…

Lagos- and Berlin-based startup Propel has secured $2.74 million (€2.5 million) in seed investment and the two-year-old talent matching startup intends to build sustainable talent pipelines for communities and help global companies derisk the process of hiring remote talent from emerging markets, particularly in Africa. Amsterdam-based No Such Ventures led…

Questions about the ethics, transparency, and regulation of artificial intelligence (A.I.) have proliferated among creatives ever since ChatGPT exploded into the marketplace in late 2022. And now, two award-winning authors are taking OpenAI to court over allegedly “ingesting” their novels and regurgitating summaries of them without their consent, credit, or…

Africa’s largest mobile network operator, MTN Group, has said it has a plan to invest $3.5 billion in the Nigerian economy over the next five years. This is part of a broader vision of becoming a pan-African company by moving investments from the Middle East and focusing more on Africa,…

South Africa’s third-largest mobile network, Telkom, has rejected a bid for a controlling stake in the company by a consortium led by its former group CEO Sipho Maseko, and that has gradually caused its share price to plummet by 7% on Friday and another 6% on Monday soon after the…

The Threads app launched by Instagram as a rival to Twitter has seen more than 100 million users sign up in less than five days, data tracking websites said on Monday, smashing the record of artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT for the fastest-growing consumer app. While ChatGPT took two months to hit the…

Meta’s Twitter rival, Threads, logged five million sign-ups in its first four hours of operation, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as the company seeks to woo users from Elon Musk’s troubled platform through an offer of lengthier posts, a handful of celebrity backers and a strong resemblance to its competitor. The Facebook…

The rivalry between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is heating up and they haven’t even started their cage fight yet. Tomorrow Meta will officially release Threads, the so-called ‘Twitter-killer’ text-based conversation app, which arrives during a time of chaos at Twitter but for those who want to get ahead of the launch, there’s a way to…

Telkom Business is making the power of artificial intelligence (AI) available to SMMEs. The company today announced that users of its YEP! business portal for SMMEs will now have access to innovative tools for reputation management and social marketing. Each tool comes in a Standard (free) version, while the added…

Let’s go back a bit in memory lane before Elon Musk finally purchased Twitter in 2022 and the back-and-forth reason behind his backtracking on finalizing the deal. Bots! Yes, back then Musk cited bots as a reason to back out of buying the social platform. After finally purchasing the company,…