African funds raised $4-billion in 2024 — double the value from a year earlier — to invest in start-ups and infrastructure projects.
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Tokenised bank cards are expected to take over, but several factors may keep physical plastic alive for a while yet.
The publication, which continues to achieve record readership numbers, is being acquired by Publishared.
Lesotho earlier this week granted a 10-year licence to Starlink, a subsidiary of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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The roll-out of Samsung’s One UI 7, built on Android 15, has been highly anticipated for months.
Standard Bank has partnered with Checkers to offer UCount members with up to 40% back on shopping on Sixty60.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over US antitrust worries.
Opera Mini, a barebones mobile browser, now has an in-built AI tool which users can access at no additional cost.
Enterprise payments infrastructure specialist Stitch has announced a $55-million series-B funding round.
Samro has been accused of “double dipping” by charging music licensing fees for individual TVs in hotel rooms.
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Venture capital funding for African start-ups shrank again last year, though the share of homegrown investors advanced.
CATL, the top maker of batteries for EVs, has won Hong Kong’s approval to proceed with a listing in the city
Netflix is testing new search technology for subscribers that employs AI to help them find TV shows and movies.
Apple has managed to dodge its biggest crisis since the pandemic — for the moment, at least.
Litigation was instrumental in damaging Big Tobacco’s grip on the market in the 1990s. A similar approach is probably needed to stigmatise social media.
Europe could quickly seize an opportunity to capitalise on US aggression by moving quickly to bolster its tech sector.