135 GoTyme Bank CEO Cheslyn Jacobs Customers of GoTyme Bank – the digital lender formerly known as TymeBank – face a double change as the company completes its rebrand and migrates users…
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WeBuyCars to sell its AI inspection platform to rivals
120 WeBuyCars CEO Faan van der Walt WeBuyCars plans to begin offering its proprietary vehicle inspection platform, Inspectify, to the broader used-car market within the next six to 12 months, opening what…
AFC commits $100-million to African tech funds
105 Africa Finance Corporation has approved a commitment of up to US$100-million to invest in Africa-focused technology fund managers — a move aimed at increasing the share of local capital in the…
Bitcoin firm headed to JSE main board
125 Africa Bitcoin Corporation, the JSE-listed company formerly known as Altvest Capital, is moving its listing from the bourse’s junior market to the main board. The company said the JSE has approved…
Activists challenge 160MW Cape Town data centre project
88 A plan by US-listed Equinix to build two data centres in Cape Town should not be approved without full disclosure of its water, power and environmental impact, a formal objection lodged…
The toll booth at the bottom of the sea
98 The Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf Iran is signalling that it wants to extract rent from the global data traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz,…
Why the security operations centre is now a boardroom issue
109 Kaspersky sub-Saharan Africa GM Chris Norton In this Q&A article, Kaspersky GM for sub-Saharan Africa Chris Norton explains why security operations centres (SOCs) are becoming a boardroom priority. What is a…
Anthropic to brief financial regulators on Mythos AI risk
140 AI start-up Anthropic is set to brief the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on cyber vulnerabilities in the global financial system identified by its latest model, Mythos, the Financial Times reported on…
The walkout that could hit every laptop and AI server
116 Samsung Electronics and its labour union started talks on Monday in a last-ditch bid to avert the biggest strike in the tech giant’s history, amid concern that a walkout by more…
South Africa marks a full year without load shedding
135 South Africa has reached a milestone that would have seemed unthinkable just three years ago: a full 12 consecutive months without a single bout of load shedding. The last time Eskom…