Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Recently launched South African fintech startup Spot Money which calls itself South Africa’s first open banking marketplace that offers a mobile money solution managed through an app has partnered with local logistics startup Pargo Co., Ltd which has witnessed growing popularity of its “click and collect” in-store collection service over the last…

According to CoinDesk data the price of dogecoin spiked as much as 34% to an all-time high of $0.095896 on Tuesday, bringing its total market capitalization above $11 billion, shooting the value of the cryptocurrency originally designed as a joke to nearly $0.10 per coin as both the price and popularity…

Ending weeks of stagnancy, Bitcoin last month shot up in price, hitting new all-time highs of $60,000 for the first time in its 12-year history after an increasing backing from corporate heavyweights, and now exactly one month after hitting its last all-time high, bitcoin has once again reached new heights by climbing above…

The National Treasury has announced that it will be extending the Loan Guarantee Scheme (LGS) by yet another three months as it aims to assist small businesses that have been financially impacted by the global pandemic. The LGS was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 21 April 2020 as part of…

Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing giant and leading ‘super-app’ Grab Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday that it would go public on the Nasdaq Stock Market by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company, securing a near-$40 billion valuation in a new milestone for the SPAC backed by Altimeter Capital boom that has swept U.S. financial…

South African-based fintech startup Troygold, who happens to be the creator of South Africa’s first gold-backed savings account, debit card has secured an investment Crossfin Ventures, the angel investment arm of Crossfin Technology Holdings. In ancient times, one ounce of gold held the purchasing power to feed a family of four for a…

South African-based cybersecurity technology startup Sendmarc automates the process of protecting your domain from being used in email impersonation and phishing attacks has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Kalon Venture Partners, a South African venture capital fund.  Clive Butkow, CEO of Kalon Venture Partners attributes the investment made into Sendmarc…

Video-game graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. doesn’t seem to be holding back as keeps exerting more competitive pressure on Intel Corp. with new plans now to start selling central-processing units (CPUs) to serve the booming data-center market. Nvidia said it’s offering the company’s first server microprocessors, in a way extending a…

Google will be killing off yet another app, despite Play Music & TV been renamed on the best Android phones last year to Google TV, it made the announcement through 9to5Google that Google Play Movies and TV app will no longer be available on a Roku set-top box or a Samsung, LG, Vizio or Roku…

Firefox Browser, also known as Mozilla Firefox or simply Firefox, a free and open-source web browser has announced that they are dropping support for Amazon’s Fire TV and Echo Show devices. This big news comes just over three and a half years after the browser started supporting the Amazon devices.…

The Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey via a tweet on Monday, and in line with their growth strategy, made a surprise announcement about the company’s presence in the African continent…but for Twitter to build this team in Ghana, it’s actively looking to hire specialists to join several teams…

Chinese Telecoms company Huawei Technologies Co. came out guns blazing on Monday suggesting that it believes U.S. sanctions on the company are to a certain extent to blame for the ongoing global chip shortage. Speaking to analysts regarding the global chip shortage in Shenzhen at Huawei’s Analyst Summit, Eric Xu,…

Embattled Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. on Monday hinted at pursuing new avenues in a bid to weather wide-ranging US sanctions imposed by the Trump administration left its once-leading smartphone business in tatters, while also hindering progress in its semiconductor and 5G businesses. Therefore, Huawei plans to spend $1 billion…

Officials announced Monday, April 12 that Microsoft Corp is buying Nuance Communications Inc. an AI company specializing in voice recognition and related software and services for $19.7 billion. This latest Nuance acquisition becomes Microsoft’s second-largest acquisition in corporate history after LinkedIn which Microsoft bought in 2016 for $26.2 billion and…

Vodacom Group and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) will offer the mVacciNation digital toolbox – a mobile technology platform that manages vaccination appointments and stock availability – in African Union member states to accelerate the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out.In South Africa, the National Department of Health has used mVacciNation to…

The Finnish phone maker Nokia recently announced six new smartphones. Nokia, formerly part of Microsoft and now part of HMD Global, hasn’t been a serious player in the mobile market for many years. Its six new Android handsets across three new lines offer tech and value that could get it…

It is no secret that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is on a mission to colonize Mars and now even his Twitter bio openly expresses that. As of Monday morning Musk tweaked his Twitter bio which now reads, “Technoking of Tesla, Imperator of Mars”, and in addition, the bio included a…

New week, new Microsoft acquisition chatter. After reports of the tech giant acquiring gaming-focused communication platform Discord for more than $10 billion, rumors of it chasing speech AI company Nuance Communications which helped launch Apple’s digital assistant Siri have emerged. According to a report from Bloomberg, Microsoft wants to buy the AI firm for…

Only a couple of days ago, Facebook was involved in a massive data breach that compromised the personal data of 533 million users. While the world was still grappling with the Facebook data breach, the news of another huge data leak involving the leading professional networking platform LinkedIn jostled the…

Sony Pictures Entertainment doesn’t have its own streaming service, and that’s good news for Netflix Inc. because the film studio has finally inked a new deal with Netflix that will see the streamer become the exclusive home of films including popular upcoming ‘Jumanji’ and ‘Spider-Man’ franchises, and other films such…