264 FindHomes co-founder Adrian Bunge For most South Africans, buying a home is the largest financial commitment they will ever make. It is also one of the least transparent. Listings sites show…
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SpaceX’s record-setting IPO is here
186 A SpaceX Super Heavy booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off on its 11th test flight at the company’s launch pad in Starbase, Texas, last year. Steve Nesius/Reuters SpaceX took the…
Three years in, PayShap pivots to merchants
344 South Africa’s PayShap instant payments system has passed six million registered users and 905 million transactions since its 2023 launch, operator PayInc said on Thursday – even as the system’s owners…
Two telcos, $1-trillion and two very different fintech bets
163 MTN Group and Vodacom Group between them processed just over US$1-trillion in mobile money transactions across their most recent financial years – a milestone for Africa’s two largest telco-led fintech businesses,…
There’s an oddity hiding in South Africa’s EV market
164 Plug-in hybrid electric cars (PHEVs) outsold pure battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) by more than two to one in South Africa last year, marking the local market out as a global outlier even…
South Africa’s operators can fix Rica
157 If South Africa’s Sim registration story played out the way we imagine it should, this would be the moment we cut to sunshine, trust and seamless onboarding. But that’s not our…
Anatomy of a reset: why the helpdesk is now the breach
146 Specops Software and TechCentral brought a room of senior executives together at the Park Hyatt Johannesburg on Thursday, 7 May, to dissect the password reset call. The verdict was uncomfortable: in…
Rica blindspot exposed
220 Ten years after its introduction, the embedded Sim (eSim) has been most transformative when used when travelling, according to a new global industry survey – a finding that carries awkward implications…
Check Point swaps static rules for agentic AI
189 Check Point chief technology officer Jonathan Zanger Check Point Software Technologies, a pioneer and global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today launched its Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform, a purpose-built autonomous agent…
Nvidia does it again
148 Nvidia CEO Jensen Juang Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday aimed to assure investors that the world’s most valuable company can keep up its blockbuster growth with the help of a…