Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

After Microsoft closed its retail stores late March due to the COVID-19 crisis, Friday it just announced that it will permanently close all its physical retail stores and put most of its focus on its online store at Microsoft.com, where customers can go for support, sales, training and more. Microsoft…

Peter Hazlehurst, Uber Technologies Inc.’s Financial Services Head resigned Thursday, and you may have questions to what could have caused the sudden resignation, right? Well, it’s merely because Uber has changed course on financial services and what does it entail, simply that the ride-hailing giant is now entirely focusing on…

Amazon is said to be in talks to acquire Zoox, a self-driving start-up and is expected to announce a deal as early as today for upwards of $1 billion, which would mark the group’s first purchase of a self-driving start-up. Why it matters: While Apple, Google and others have invested…

Thursday Volvo Car Group and Waymo formed an alliance that will see Waymo be the exclusive partner for Level 4 self-driving that is full autonomy in certain conditions for its vehicles. Therefore, this deal makes Volvo the fourth automaker to commit to integrating Waymo’s AV technology in its vehicles with Volvo…

Software giant Microsoft recently launched an antivirus software for Android in a preview version and it also revealed that Windows Defender was making its way to both iOS and Android earlier this year, but didn’t fully detail what to expect or the day of release. Microsoft’s recent move sort of makes…

On Monday, Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference introduced a litany of new security and privacy features that fit into what the company calls its four privacy principles. Wednesday, Google followed suit by announcing its own privacy-focused improvements as well, under what Google CEO Sundar Pichai says are “three important principles” of privacy.…

The news here isn’t that Sony is finally giving PS4 bugs some attention because it has had a bug bounty program for quite some time but it wasn’t open to the public. Sony has launched a PlayStation 4 bug bounty programme which could see participants being paid $50,000 for finding critical bugs…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday afternoon announced the beta launch of Amazon Honeycode, which inserts Amazon into the fast-growing market for low-code and no-code software development with an aim to make it easy for anybody in a company who are non-developers to quickly create interactive web and mobile apps without knowing how to…

Zoom may have the hype, the cool backgrounds, and the sexy name, but Microsoft Teams quietly surpassed Zoom users during the week of May 4. According to Aternity data, as of June 14, 2020, Microsoft Teams grew 894% and Zoom grew 677% from its base use during the week of…

As we once reported beginning of June that South African mobile operator MTN was planning on rolling out its new 5G network by end of June, but there was no specific date and had already started promoting its 5G value proposition in its latest Y’ello magazine, we bring to you…

Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, has announced a new partnership with Coursera, a world-leading online learning platform with over 62 million learners globally. The partnership will offer a growing series of Check Point cyber-security courses and content to security and network professionals. The…

Manchester- based businessman Georgios Demetriou of Licence to Thrill Ltd (“the Applicant”) recently applied to register the phrase “BLACK LIVES MATTER” under trade mark application no. 3497647 and “I CAN’T BREATHE” under trade mark application no. 3497640 at the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO). These phrases are associated with…

I am among those people who use Canva a lot for my graphic design work and it wasn’t that much of a surprise that the design software business is really booming especially now in a work-from-home pandemic environment after raising new funding that values the startup at $6 billion. For…

Rectron is excited to announce the addition of Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) to its datacentre solutions portfolio. This agreement will allow Rectron to deepen its relationships and offering to its enterprise clients by allowing them to provide a more comprehensive range of technology solutions. This partnership comes on the…

The PS5 (or PlayStation 5) is the next-generation PlayStation console, with a release date confirmed for late 2020. During Sony’s The Future of Gaming event on June 11, we finally got our first look at the PS5’s design and the PS5 games line-up, which includes the likes of Horizon Forbidden West and a remake…

Amazon has just announced that during 2020 it will be permanently recruiting at least 3,000 new employees in South Africa to fill roles in new virtual jobs in their Customer Service division. According to Amazon, the remote working roles will range from customer service associates to technical experts who will work virtually…

COVID-19 has created a significant amount of change to our daily lives and how we work. Unfortunately, these changes have in turn created increased cyber-security risks for many organisations around the world. Covid-19 has led to a sharp increase in cyber-attacks worldwide. Cyber criminals have been quick to exploit the current…

Microsoft Corp. and SAS announced an extensive technology and go-to-market strategic partnership. The two companies will enable customers to easily run their SAS workloads in the cloud, expanding their business solutions and unlocking critical value from their digital transformation initiatives. As part of the partnership, the companies will migrate SAS’…

As of late, during election times there are so many political adverts that pops up and it gets kind of irritating at times because most of them are repetitive with the the same content, therefore, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just given an important update that users will be able…

Amazon recently launched an artificial intelligence-based tracking system to enforce social distancing at its offices and warehouses to help reduce any risk of contracting the new coronavirus among its workers. The unveiling comes as the world’s largest online retailer faces intensifying scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and unions over whether it…