514 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…
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Two telcos, $1-trillion and two very different fintech bets
244 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
303 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
208 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
218 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
347 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
295 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
231 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…
SpaceX wants to fly a rocket every 53 minutes
246 Starlink satellites being blasted into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a file photograph SpaceX is no longer merely dominant in space. It has built something closer to a…
Gen Z has stopped buying the AI dream
251 Eric Schmidt. Marco Bello/Reuters The AI revolution is here and the boos are getting louder. As artificial intelligence reshapes industries and markets around the world, a sense of dread is deepening…