92 A new paper by the Reserve Bank argues that South Africa’s market-driven approach to open banking is limited in its reach. In fact, it risks entrenching the same socioeconomic barriers that…
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Perfect storm for South African tech buyers
86 The rand began the week at its lowest level in four months as escalating hostilities in the Middle East kept oil prices high, stoking inflation worries ahead of a much-anticipated interest…
Cape Town BNPL start-up Happy Pay raises R86-million in seed funding
76 The Happy Pay team. Image: Supplied Cape Town-based “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) start-up Happy Pay has raised US$5-million (R86-million) in a seed funding round led by Paris-headquartered venture capital firm…
How AI is transforming the machinery of war
88AI tools are making war faster than ever. The Iran conflict shows why that should alarm us all.
How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop sucked up billions and delivered nothing
95 Hyperloop Transportation Technologies test facility in 2019 in Toulouse, France. Photo: Wikipedia user Ryn88668, 19 June 2019, under CC BY-SA 4.0 International licence In 2013, PayPal mafia don and head of…
SA start-up HyperDev wants to turn your AI-built app into a real company
87 HyperDev’s Anton Moulder Vibe coding tools have made it trivially easy to build an app. But almost nobody is turning those apps into actual businesses — and a South African start-up…
Amazon set to take another shot at the smartphone market
82 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Remo Casilli/Reuters In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone, overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos, was…
MTN and Vodacom dwarf South Africa’s listed tech sector
126 MTN Group and Vodacom Group, the two giants of South Africa’s telecommunications sector, each clock up more than R1-billion in revenue in just two and three days, respectively. TechCentral analysed companies…
How South African executives can crack the AI ROI code
115 The author, Workday’s Jannie Malan Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from boardroom curiosity to boardroom mandate. Across South Africa — from Sandton’s financial district to Cape Town’s technology hubs — executives…
SA firm opens Africa’s largest space hardware factory
96 Image: NewSpace Systems Somerset West-based spacecraft component maker NewSpace Systems has opened a 5 200sq m manufacturing facility that it claims is the largest commercial space hardware manufacturing plant in Africa. The…