Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Fully remote startup, Superside, which operates a network of freelance creatives that are tapped by companies to work on logos, display ads, packaging, bigger marketing campaigns, and other design-based efforts, has picked up $30 million, money that it will be investing in further international expansion and growing its team of people,…

South Africa-based fintech banking app, Bettr, has partnered with Access Bank, “the continent’s fastest-growing bank”, in preparation for future expansion. The app has also been awarded full regulatory approval and is on the road to public beta in March 2022. Differentiating itself from traditional banks which are “built for linear career…

Microsoft South Africa has selected The Awareness Company as the beneficiary of its AgriTech Programme. The Awareness Company will develop and roll out three high-impact solutions in the agriculture sector within the next year – positively impacting one of the country’s critical sectors, helping to drive growth and job creation. Lillian Barnard, CEO of…

Founded by Gil Sperling and Daniel Levy, Flow is a South African property tech startup that automates rental and seller listings on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn and drives pre-assessed leads straight to the phones of the listing estate agents and landlords. Having achieved consistent 30% MoM growth since launch and…

TIME Magazine after recently naming Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk as its Person of the Year, noting SpaceX winning NASA’s exclusive contract to put astronauts on the moon, his big wins with Tesla, and more factors that have made him the world’s richest man on Tuesday Musk announced that…

Autochek Africa, the leading auto tech platform, has launched a dedicated brand new cars section on the Autochek website and mobile app. With this new addition, customers can access digital financing solutions for brand new cars and trucks with repayment tenures of up to 60 months and the lowest interest rates in…

From his quirky takes on most world topics to moving the stock markets through his surprise tweets, the world’s second-richest man Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is the chosen one. To put it simply, the prestigious TIME magazine has named Musk as the “2021 Person of the Year.” Apart…

Pfizer Inc. agreed to acquire Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $6.7 billion, bolstering the pharmaceutical giant’s pipeline of medicines for inflammatory bowel diseases. Pfizer will pay Arena shareholders $100 per share, double Arena’s share price of $49.94 through Friday’s close. The stock had fallen 35% so far this year before the…

Cassava Technologies, Africa’s first integrated tech company of continental-scale, yesterday announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mitsui & Co., Ltd (Mitsui), one of Japan’s largest global conglomerates. Cassava Technologies and Mitsui share the common vision of facilitating digital transformation across Africa. The partnership will bring together the…

Amazon on Friday published an explanation of the Web Services outage that knocked parts of the internet offline for several hours on December 7th — and promised more clarity if this happens in the future. As CNBC reports, Amazon revealed an automated capacity scaling feature led to “unexpected behavior” from internal network clients. Devices connecting that…

The world’s biggest payment processor Visa has launched a global cryptocurrency advisory service for commercial clients like banks, as the adoption of digital currencies continues to gain momentum. The group’s advisory service is being geared towards financial institutions keen to attract or retain customers with a crypto offering. It is also…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing the prospect of imminent extradition to the U.S. after the U.K. High Court granted an appeal by the U.S. government against an earlier (January) refusal by a U.K. judge to extradite him on mental health grounds. A final decision on whether or not to…

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg, who laid off 900 employees over a Zoom meeting that lasted less than three minutes, is taking time off from the company as employees revolt over a mass layoff he executed in brutal fashion at the start of the month. The company has also hired an outside firm to “do…

There’s been a big push to get more Android apps running on Windows PCs. During The Game Awards, Google announced that it’s taking another step by bringing a Google Play Games app to PCs in 2022. Greg Hartrell, Product Director, Games on Android and Google Play, spoke about bringing Google Play games…

Meta on Thursday announced that it is opening up Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality world of avatars, to anyone 18 and older in the U.S. and Canada. Horizon Worlds launched in beta last year to select Oculus VR users, who answered invitations to join the virtual world. With the announcement on…

Those trying to keep track of a website’s ranking and other analytics will be well aware of Alexa.com, which is a popular website ranking platform by Amazon. Sadly, Amazon has announced that it will retire its Alexa.com ranking site on May 1, 2022. The site has operated for approximately 25 years,…

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg is now facing the consequences of embarrassingly firing 900 staff on a Zoom call with three top executives having so far resigned from the company and more are expected to follow suit in the following days. Leaked footage of the brutal call went massively viral on…

The boss of a US mortgage company, Better.com, who fired hundreds of his staff in a Zoom meeting has said he is “deeply sorry” for the way the lay-offs were handled. The sackings were necessary said Vishal Garg, but he accepted he had “blundered the execution” and “embarrassed” them. “I…

Africa is the most censorship-intensive region in the world with ten countries shutting down social media this year. According to cybersecurity company Surfshark, social media censorship cases decreased by 35% worldwide this year – from 29 in 2020 to 19 in 2021. Despite a notable decrease in cases, internet disruptions affected approximately…

A new neighbourhood near Mombasa, Kenya is to be built in record time thanks to a world-beating 3D printing technology. It was recently announced that Africa’s largest 3D-printed affordable housing project will be developed by 14Trees, a joint venture between Holcim and CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution. The…