Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Mazibuko Motor is a battery-electric and technology startup based in South Africa. They develop their own electric vehicles including technologies used for autonomous driving, battery storage, and power generation has created the country’s first electric battery bakkie, the M1B Pick Up. The latest innovation is currently in the concept stages…

The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia has announced plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs within two years to trim costs and invest more in research capabilities, and to be precise to catch up with rivals on 5G technologies. The Finnish telecoms group seeks to step up its challenge to Sweden’s…

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, along with the associated lockdowns and working/learning from home has changed pretty much everything, and that also includes processors. Tuesday, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) unveiled new Ryzen PRO 5000 Series mobile processors, its competitor to Intel’s vPro platform, and the chipmaker is pitching them at professionals who are…

Who has never used Wikipedia? Everybody uses Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It’s currently the 8th most visited website in the U.S. and the 13th most trafficked site in the world. The website bills itself as the “free…

Mining cryptocurrency seems like a no-brainer. Set up a computer to help solve complex math puzzles and you are rewarded with a coin or a fraction of a coin. But Mining Bitcoin is indeed a profitable game—and now more profitable than ever before. According to blockchain data and analytics provider Glassnode, earlier this…

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on the country’s regulators this week to step up their crackdown on tech companies and extend scrutiny to all areas of financial activity. Xi stressed the need to regulate “platform” companies to maintain social stability during a meeting of China’s leaders on Monday, according to the state-owned Xinhua…

Google via a blog post has just announced a major change to its app store policy, under which it will cut its Play commissions globally for developers that sell in-app digital goods and services by half. This change will go into effect starting July 1. Google will reduce Play Store cut to…

Who remembers what happened on July 15. 2020? Okay, who had forgotten about Graham Ivan Clark? Does that date or name ring a bell? Well, if not, will choose to be a bit precise, the legendary bitcoin scam that shocked the world last year July 15? Alright, now that you…

Huawei will begin charging smartphone makers such as Samsung and Apple a royalty to use its patented 5G technology as the Chinese technology firm looks to open a new revenue stream, even as other parts of its business have taken a hit due to U.S. sanctions. Huawei expects to fetch…

The blocking of popular Western social media platforms in China is nothing new, and now the encrypted messaging app Signal became unusable for many people in mainland China on Tuesday, stifling one of the last widely used messaging apps that could send and receive encrypted messages in the country without a virtual private…

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create significant challenges for the manufacturing and retail industry globally, the need for a resilient and agile supply chain network has never been greater. Vodacom Business has developed various digital solutions to help businesses achieve a true connected supply chain network to help improve…

Uber extends its commitment to the work of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by offering 1 million rides to teachers around the world to and from vaccination appointments to support the reopening of schools and to protect teachers and their communities. As a member of the…

Savannah Fund, a technology seed fund focused on investing in early-stage startups across sub-Saharan Africa has announced the launch of a $25-million fund. The investment funding secured has been led by The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group with participation from the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (WeFi), Tim…

South African leading, and award-winning global investment and advisory firm that invests in and advises African companies Moshe Capital Fund Managers has launched an investment fund worth R350-million (US$23.5m) and is actively searching for companies to invest in. According to reports issued, the private equity firm and secured the new funding from…

Well, after the recent Microsoft hack, it got me into researching more about China and Cyber-Espionage. First and foremost, let’s take a trip down memory lane, During World War II, the Chinese communists cultivated opium in their base area and trafficked it into Japanese-occupied cities. Mao Zedong’s man in charge…

Chinese electric carmaker and Tesla’s rival Xpeng Motors has got a new round of investment from the government of the southern Chinese province whose name it carries – Guangdong. The automaker said it had reached a “strategic cooperation agreement” with the Guangdong provincial government for an RMB 500 million investment in its…

Lookout, Inc., a leading cybersecurity company, today announced it has acquired CipherCloud, a leading cloud-native security company that operates in the emerging Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market. By combining the Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security with the CipherCloud SASE technologies, Lookout is in a unique position to deliver the industry’s first end-to-end platform…

Access to US audio app Clubhouse was blocked in China last month, and Oman has followed suit in blocking Clubhouse on Sunday because it did not have the right permit, authorities said, but some activists described the move as a further erosion of freedom of expression in the Gulf state. Residents…

The uncertainty around cryptocurrencies in India continues as the government will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, fining anyone trading in the country, or even holding such digital assets, a senior government official told Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class. The bill,…

Here’s what happened: The OnePlus 9 series was supposed to go official on March 23. Feel free to even check your calendar, yeah, it’s not March 23. Just after the virtual event announcement, rumors started circulating that Apple might have an event or announce products on the same day. Not to be potentially…