Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Driverless truck company Ike founded by veterans of Apple, Google and Uber Advanced Technologies Group that is working to develop and deploy autonomous trucks recently announced that it’s been acquired by Nuro, the autonomous delivery vehicle startup, for an undisclosed amount. Ike says it’s already begun work on integration of its 55…

Guangzhou-based WeRide, a smart mobility company that creates leading Level 4 (L4) autonomous driving technologies and China’s first Level 4 (L4) autonomous driving technology start-up company to obtain strategic investment from a top-tier global automaker Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi recently announced that it has raised a $200 million strategic round from Chinese bus…

My Washbay founded in 2017, makes finding your car wash easier by putting you on the map. The local tech startup My Washbay is focused on digitising and reinventing the car wash industry by providing a tech-based service for car wash owners, adding value for its customers.  In an recent interview with…

According to research firm CounterPoint, Taiwanese semiconductor company MediaTek was the world’s biggest smartphone chipset maker for the first time in Q3 2020 surpassing American-based Qualcomm. The company, which makes budget chips like the Helio G35, Helio G85, grabbed 31 percent of the market share. MediaTek became the biggest smartphone…

The market share for mobile operating systems is dominated by Android and iOS. Are there even other contenders out there? The answer is… yes and no. The market is evolving and there are more options for custom mobile app development. While there are other mobile operating systems OS available, you’d be…

Fully autonomous vehicles seem closer to reality than ever before. There have been attempts and news that self-driving cars or driverless shuttles are being adapted for ride-sharing services. The surprising news is that soon enough, there would be cars ultimately morphing into a mobile office so people can work during their commute.…

China regulators kicked off an investigation into alleged monopolistic practices at Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. the country’s second largest private sector company and summoned affiliate Ant Group Co. to a high-level meeting over financial regulations, escalating scrutiny over the twin pillars of billionaire Jack Ma’s internet empire. Alibaba has interests…

MiBRAND is a content aggregation system that is designed to collect and centralise specials from South African online retailers across the internet. Their system is designed to automatically identify the special, run it through a vetting process to ensure the quality of the content, then gets uploaded onto their platform.…

Back in October we reported that Pick n Pay had concluded a deal to purchase on-demand alcohol and grocery delivery service Bottles, which was launched in 2016 as South Africa’s first alcohol on-demand delivery app, and partnered with Pick n Pay in 2018. Now the on-demand delivery app, Bottles has officially been launched…

ShEquity, an investment vehicle that focuses on providing smart and sustainable investments for African female entrepreneurs, has announced the launch of ShEquity West Africa VC Fund and the ShEquity Business Accelerator (SHEBA), offering female founders funding as well as venture building and technical support. ShEquity’s purpose is to provide smart…

FlexClub, a car subscription marketplace offering members the most flexible way to buy a car, and its founding team made up of former Uber leaders who specialized in vehicle finance and operations over a combined decade in mobility has launched the ‘Drive Now, Buy Later’ model in partnership with an…

Just recently reporting on Apple’s Senior Vice President of hardware technologies revealing to staff that Apple Inc. had already started building its own cellular modem for future devices. It appears cellular modems aren’t the only products Apple will be building, because on Monday Reuters reported that Apple also plans on building a self-driving car…

Leading UK-based mobile cryptocurrency startup, Electroneum, which uses the power of blockchain to unlock the global digital economy for millions of people in the developing world has expanded its electricity top-up service to four more African countries. The service will now be available in Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin, and Ivory Coast. The Electroneum…

US Venture Capital fund, Enygma Ventures, was delighted to announce its final $650 000 investment of 2020 into Zambian-based online micro-lending tech startup, PremierCredit, an online micro-lending platform operating in Zambia and Zimbabwe, which has extensive plans to grow and serve the SADC region. Sarah Dusek, Managing Partner and co-founder of…

YouTube recently announced that it had started removing videos that falsely claim widespread election fraud that led to Joe Biden’s win over President Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S Presidential Election. Now Twitter has followed suit updating its warning label for election misinformation to declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020…

Tesla Chief Executive and according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index now the second richest person in the world, Elon Musk, regularly posts about bitcoin and cryptocurrency on Twitter, that his tongue-in-cheek posts have been known to move the price of some of smaller cryptocurrencies. Elon Musk on Sunday sparked speculation he…

Worldwide leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions, Cisco Systems Inc. has become the latest victim of a suspected Russian cyber-attack campaign using SolarWinds, has roiled the U.S. government and private sector and left security experts across the country racing to assess the extent of the damage. Some internal machines used…

Earlier this year, hackers compromised software made by a cybersecurity company you might not have heard of. How did Russia pull off the biggest espionage hack on record? Russia’s hack of IT management company SolarWinds began as far back as March, and it only came to light when the perpetrators…

According to Bloomberg News, the world’s largest software maker, Microsoft Corp. is designing its own ARM-based processors for servers and possibly a future Surface device and is a clear warning shot to Intel. The processors will be used in servers for Microsoft’s Azure cloud services and be based around ARM designs,…

A couple days ago Google services suffered a widespread outage which lasted for over an hour. Google users were unable to access Google services such as YouTube, and Gmail, as a mistake with its system for identifying people online. In response to Downdetector, the issue seemed to have affected Gmail, YouTube, Google…