286 Eskom has simplified how households and small businesses connect their rooftop solar and other so-called “small-scale embedded generation” (SSEG) systems to the national grid, cutting costs and red tape. The utility…
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19-year-old Capetonian’s AI start-up wins Y Combinator backing
361 Certus co-founders Adam Gamieldien, Isaac Nichols and Gurveer Singh (CEO) A South African AI start-up, led by 19-year-old entrepreneur Gurveer Singh, has secured the backing of Y Combinator, the prestigious Silicon…
We tested these R4.4-million speakers
239 Yes, that price in the headline is right – just in case you were doing a double take. Bang & Olufsen have been the poster child for European/Scandinavian design excellence for…
South Africa’s most overlooked export: our tech talent
321 South Africa spends a lot of time worrying about anchor industries like mining, finance and energy. They dominate headlines and boardroom agendas, but while we watch those traditional levers creak and…
Optasia targets up to R23-billion valuation in JSE debut
293 Optasia’s plans to list on the JSE could see the company valued at up to R23.5-billion in its public market debut. In a pre-listing statement on Monday, Optasia, whose backers include…
TymeBank is getting a new name
280 Tyme Group CEO Coen Jonker Digital-first banking platform and fintech TymeBank intends to rebrand itself as GoTyme in the first half of 2026, aligning with its brand identity in some of…
Solid8 and AlgoSec power Africa’s secure digital future
367 In today’s interconnected, multi-cloud world, network complexity has become one of cybersecurity’s greatest challenges. Every new application, cloud migration and integration increases the attack surface, creating endless opportunities for misconfigurations, delays…
Amazon stumbled, and the world face-planted
282 Amazon Web Services has returned to normal operations, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites on Monday, including some of the web’s most…
The race to build a star on Earth
208 Over the past five years, private sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10-billion, from a combination of venture capital, deep-tech investors, energy corporations and sovereign…
South African-built payment ring launches through FNB
446 FNB has entered into a partnership with South African fintech start-up VezoPay, the company behind the country’s first smart payment ring. Under the deal, customers of FNB Private Bank and RMB Private Bank…