148 Kunal Shah, an Indian fintech founder with no engineering degree or Silicon Valley pedigree, has spent two decades building businesses around digital payments and consumer behaviour in India. He now takes…
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IBM claims major chip breakthrough
120 Image: IBM IBM on Thursday unveiled what it said was the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology — a node it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, generation — as tech companies race…
Vodacom bundles Amazon Prime across its post-paid base
110 Vodacom South Africa has partnered with Amazon to offer full Amazon Prime membership to its post-paid and home connectivity customers, deepening a relationship that until now had been limited to Prime…
Kaspersky’s blueprint for industrial cyber resilience
107 Industrial enterprises face an escalating wave of cyberthreats. The challenge lies in the complexity of industrial control systems (ICS), which often rely on legacy technology, lack built-in security and cannot afford…
Datatec CEO lifts hedge ceiling as shares surge
123 Datatec group CEO Jens Montanana Datatec founder and CEO Jens Montanana has restruck a massive collar hedge over 2.4 million of his shares as part of an extension to an equity-funding…
Visa, FNB and RMB take aim at corporate cash
140 Visa’s Lineshree Moodley South Africa’s consumers have spent the past few years ditching cash for taps, virtual cards and even payment rings. The country’s businesses, by and large, have not. That…
OpenAI and Broadcom build a chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell
122 Broadcom CEO Hock Tan OpenAI has showed off the company’s first custom AI chip, which it designed with Broadcom, as it seeks to speed its development of its infrastructure. AI labs…
Absa’s silence and the banking MVNO move no one has tried
148 South Africa has four banking MVNOs (Capitec Connect, FNB Connect, Standard Bank Connect and Nedbank Connect), and they’re all essentially running the exact same playbook. The logic is simple enough: use…
GTA 6 retail price locked in
139 Take-Two Interactive Software has priced its highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI at US$79.99 (R1Â 330 at the time of publication) and will launch the game on 19 November, the company said…
Investec deploying AI tools to every employee
120 Lyndon Subroyen, global head of digital and technology at Investec Investec has switched on Microsoft Copilot for all 8 000 of its employees, describing the move as the first full-workforce deployment…