Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Self-funded Johannesburg-based tech startup It’sOk has created a cutting-edge emotional intelligence app that is designed specifically for a school environment. The tech startup has combined the power of technology with a holistic approach to promoting emotional awareness and intelligence among young students in South Africa.  Cody Gordon, co-founder, and CEO of It’sOk…

As the world transitions to recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vodacom is celebrating what the human spirit can achieve when combined with technology. With the announcement of a new brand tagline, ‘Further Together’ it places the emphasis on how – through partnerships and collaboration – it is…

The concept of NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens, has arrived in South Africa, with numerous artworks available for purchase or auction via these digital certificates that are immune to forgery. NFTs have seen a global surge in recent weeks, with singer Grimes selling $6-million worth of digital art as NFTs; rock…

Say “goodbye” to one of the internet’s favorite dinosaurs. The end of a long and storied internet era (of bad questions and even worse answers). Yahoo announced that Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on…

Google parent Alphabet is reportedly planning in the coming weeks to stop using Oracle financial software and instead start using software from SAP. Google made the announcement in an email to employees, also confirmed by CNBC. The move doesn’t appear to be related to Google’s Supreme Court win over Oracle earlier Monday. Nonetheless, there is no…

Lagos-based Pricepally, an innovative eCommerce platform, and digital food cooperative which enables consumers to buy food and wholesale products directly from producers, as well as sharing bulk purchases with other users for additional savings, has secured an undisclosed six-figure amount of funding in a pre-seed investment round led by VC…

Shares of Tesla jumped more than 7% in premarket trading at $709 early Monday morning after the electric vehicle maker posted record quarterly deliveries between January and March, topping Wall Street’s expectations and prompting at least one firm to upgrade the stock. The stock retreated from its highs throughout the…

As we once reported that LG was in the process of shutting down the mobile communication business rather than selling it, a few people may have not believed it for two simple reasons. The first one being that the company hadn’t confirmed such news, and secondly, the brand’s popularity; But…

Yesterday, it was revealed that details from more than 500 million Facebook users had been made available on a website for hackers Facebook users had been made available on a website for hackers. The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including phone numbers, Facebook IDs,…

Tesla on Friday revealed that it more than doubled the number of cars it delivered in the first quarter, bouncing back after the pandemic slowed sales in the same period a year ago. The electric car maker said it sold 184,8000 vehicles in the first three months of the year,…

Thumbs up or thumbs down? For years, Tube has allowed viewers to rate the videos on the site using either the “like” or “dislike” icons. But only now has the Google-owned video platform gotten the message that the thumbs-down button might be a means of bullying individual YouTube users, so…

Microsoft’s Microsoft 4Afrika initiative focused on improving digital access and supporting innovation in Africa has partnered with Wentors, a women’s mentorship organisation to launch a programme to train and provide mentorship to 1 000 women in the technology industry.  The programme hopes to address the 30% gap in global female researches along with the stark and prevalent…

Well, to be quite frank, we can’t say that Microsoft didn’t give us efficient lead time to switch to an alternative virtual assistant such as Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri (if you are an iPhone user) on your smartphone seeing as it gave notice of the impending demise of Cortana…

On Wednesday the U.S. Army announced that Microsoft Corp. had won a contract to build more than custom HoloLens augmented reality headsets. The contract for over 120,000 headsets could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years and suddenly after the announcement, Microsoft’s shares moved higher. The stock was up 1.7%…

Applications for the SAB Foundation’s 11th annual Social Innovation Awards and 6th annual Disability Empowerment Awards deadline have been extended to midday 8 April 2021. This extension will provide interested applicants the opportunity to apply and stand a chance of winning R1.3-million in funding, especially eligible entrepreneurs are strongly encouraged…

“We never hide our ambition,” Richard Yu said at a speech some few years back at the technology trade show CES in Las Vegas when launching the Huawei Mate 9, then added: “We have the vision to make the world’s best smartphone.” Huawei did rise to become a globally recognizable…

South African-based security tech startup and medical response platform AURA has announced that it will be expanding its product offering into the UK market where it will offer its state-of-the-art security response services to support the UK’s existing response network. AURA aims to have 10 000 users opting to use…

Apple will soon stop defaulting Siri to a female-sounding voice, and will add two new English language voices to its Siri voice assistant in an upcoming version of its iPhone software, the company said on Wednesday. Users will be able to choose from four voices for Siri, which will no longer…

Considering that your credibility is your most valuable asset, so reverting to the case of Volkswagen might have been a marketing prank or publicity stunt, but this isn’t the kind of publicity any brand should aim for. A day after Volkswagen put out a press release that it is rebranding as…

In a move intended to reflect its new push into electric vehicles, Volkswagen’s US arm went a bit far to draw attention on Tuesday when it made an announcement that it was changing its name to “Voltswagen.” Yes, really. Except, not really, because the company then finally admitted that the…