Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Personal data exposure notification service Have I Been Pwned? has sent notifications to over a million South Africans regarding a data breach that has been connected to Experian. The South African Banking Risk Centre (SABRIC) announced on 19 August that a data breach at Experian exposed the personal banking-related information of as many…

Elon Musk, after making headlines last week Friday for introducing a group of pigs with mind-reading brain implants during an event at Neuralink’s headquarters in Fremont, California, today Musk is not making headlines for weirder innovations, instead on a positive note, according to Bloomberg, his net worth is now $115 billion, pushing…

Pan-African cross-border payments leader MFS Africa has partnered with global money transfer start-up PaySii to help facilitate remittances in Africa. The partnership with MFS Africa will enable PaySii to extend its services to customers who want to send money to mobile wallets in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Cameroon, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire,…

Following local application in the healthcare sector, for COVID-19 patient care among others, a South African health technology company Healthcent (Signapps) has won a prestigious contract with Britain’s National Health Services (NHS). In terms of the contract, Signapps will provide its software as a service communication platform for the management…

MTN has announced that its customers will be able to access an exclusive offer to get up to six months of Apple Music for free. Apple Music usually costs R59.99 per month and is available on a month-to-month contract. Now, however, all MTN prepaid customers who are not already subscribed…

The Department of Health has finally launched the COVID-19 Alert SA app, which is a free exposure notification app for Android and iOS. The app lets people know when they have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, and it is available to anyone in South…

The Cloud 2020 Online Conference will launch on 21 September and has already attracted a record number of registrations. The Cloud 2020 Online Conference will feature an exciting on-demand format which makes it easy for delegates to listen to the speakers who interest them. Radio and TV personality Aki Anastasiou will serve…

APM Terminals Apapa is the latest terminal in the company’s rollout of public 4G LTE networks at its facilities in Nigeria. Wireless connectivity supports APM Terminals’ global initiatives such as the standardisation of Terminal Operating Systems, reporting and support; Asset Digitalization; and GPS based Position Detection Systems used for auto-locating…

Ada Labs Africa with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya announced that since it’s launch earlier this year, the fusion lab has acquired six startups. The Lab currently has two in the market with the other four launching in the coming months. Founded on artificial intelligence and blockchain, Ada Labs is a…

Samsung has made a breakthrough in its production of mobile memory chips, commencing mass production of the industry’s first 16-gigabit LPDDR5 mobile DRAM and this process is enabled via extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology, and the chips are built on Samsung’s third-generation 10nm (1z) process. Samsung said its new 16Gb LPDDR5 technology boasts…

With over 40 million Video Play purchases in 2019, Vodacom’s Video Play is certainly carving out its place in the Video on Demand landscape in South Africa, offering instant access to affordable entertainment content such as blockbuster movies, popular series, kids’ shows, music videos and much more. To provide Video…

Just when you thought the year 2020 couldn’t get much weirder, billionaire Elon Musk has introduced a group of pigs with mind-reading brain implants. During an event at Neuralink’s headquarters in Fremont, California, Musk found himself hanging out with a passel of Yucatan swine and several of them had previously…

Netflix has announced that it is making a live-action series based on Capcom’s hit survival horror game franchise Resident Evil and the series will be produced by Constantin Film, the same company responsible for the six Resident Evil movies released to date. Its first season will comprise eight episodes of one…

The Africa Telecommunication Union (ATU) launched the ATU Africa Innovations Challenge 2020, a competition designed to identify and support young African innovators who have developed useful mobile applications for benefiting the fight to contain COVID-19 and possibly other emergency situations in Africa in future. According to the ATU Secretary General…

Vodacom is introducing the VodaBucks Rewards Programme as a single platform that rewards customers for their loyalty to Vodacom. Free to join, the VodaBucks Rewards Programme rewards customers with VodaBucks, which is a unified virtual currency, every time they achieve personalised behavioural goals, such as buying specific bundles using the…

Orange Business Services, a network-native digital services company, and De Beers Marine South Africa, a division of De Beers – the global diamond company, have jointly installed and tested a customized IoT solution to provide geo-fencing to maintain safe working distances for crew around the heavy machinery involved in marine…

Delivery Hero SE, the world’s local delivery platform, has partnered with Mastercard to fully digitize its payment chain within its ecosystem across all their brands in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). By enabling secure digital payments, this will lead to superior consumer experience and financial security for consumers,…

Liquid Telecom has appointed Clayton Naidoo as its Group Chief Business Officer, effective from 1 October 2020 and he won’t be replacing anyone since the position is a new one within Liquid Telecom, and the group said that this role forms part of its wider digital transformation strategy. Liquid Telecom…

Netflix Inc. is offering 10 of its movies and shows for free, including hits like “Stranger Things” and “Bird Box,” stepping up its marketing of the streaming service in an increasingly saturated industry. The company posted a list of titles on its website that non-subscribers can see without logging in or signing…

Nestlé has appointed Mauricio Alarcon as new Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé Central and West Africa Ltd, effective September 1, 2020 and he has a robust and in-depth understanding of Central and West Africa that in 2014, he became Managing Director of Nestlé Côte d’Ivoire where he drove business growth…