Africa Bitcoin Corporation board quits in shareholder clash
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·1h ago
Four of Africa Bitcoin Corporation’s six directors, including chair Norma Sephuma and interim CEO Stafford Masie, have resigned after a shareholder group led by WGW Capital moved to have them voted...
AI is now propping up the world economy, says IMF
TechCentralby Agency Staff·2h ago
Strong investment in AI infrastructure is keeping global growth at about 3%, and yielding major benefits for Asian economies that supply the hardware, such as Thailand, International Monetary Fund...
The grid cannot wait
TechCentralby Busi Mavuso·3h ago
The independent transmission projects programme is set to mobilise substantial private investment in South Africa’s electricity grid.
Shoprite ranks cybersecurity as its number one risk
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·2d ago
Shoprite has graded the controls protecting it against cyberattacks and data breaches as only “partially effective”, the weakest rating it gives any of its six core business risks.
Standard Bank to take up to $200-million stake in OPay
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·2d ago
Standard Bank Group will invest as much as US$200-million in OPay, the Nigeria-focused fintech that filed on Friday to list its shares in New York.
Shoprite takes on the banking apps with airtime on Sixty60
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·2d ago
Shoprite has started selling prepaid airtime, data and digital vouchers through Sixty60, adding the on-demand app to a value-added services business that is already offered through its tills, its...
How to tell telemarketers to get lost - officially
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·2d ago
South Africans can register blocks against direct marketers on the government’s new National Opt-Out Registry now – not from May 2027, as the National Consumer Commission’s (NCC’s) own launch...
Data centres are the new front line in the Russia-Ukraine war
TechCentralby Agency Staff·2d ago
Ukraine struck and partly disabled a data centre operated by Russian technology company Yandex on Friday, a day after it hit a larger and more important facility, widening its attacks on Russia...
When a machine can choose, who does it become?
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·2d ago
To be useful, an AI model has to make judgment calls. That means ranking things: deciding that this matters more than that.
Starlink is coming for your mobile operator
TechCentralby Agency Staff·3d ago
SpaceX struck a deal on Thursday to acquire a nationwide portfolio of low-band spectrum, moving Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company closer to mounting a direct challenge from orbit to...
Claude is turning into an office suite
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·3d ago
Anthropic is building something that looks increasingly like an office suite. On Thursday, the AI company added live data dashboards and animated video explainers to its Claude chatbot, and moved...
South Africa's spam registry still can't block a call
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·3d ago
South Africans plagued by spam calls will have to wait another seven months to use the government’s new National Opt-Out Registry, despite its launch in Pretoria on Wednesday.
Why fintechs need an insurance partner they can trust
TechCentralby Hollard Insurance·3d ago
A trusted, frictionless experience is central to any fintech’s pitch. Without it, platforms fail.
GT Ferreira backs LekkeSlaap as founders sell up
TechCentralby Staff Reporter·4d ago
LekkeSlaap, the South African accommodation booking platform and rival to Airbnb, has been sold to a consortium of local investors that includes the Dippenaar and Ferreira family offices and...
Reusable KYC means the end of 'please upload your ID'
TechCentralby Contactable·4d ago
I run an identity company, and I still photograph my ID on my kitchen table several times a year. A new account here, a policy there, a store card.
The AI PC is finally here. It's just very expensive
TechCentralby Agency Staff·4d ago
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled an AI coding model that can run directly on PCs, and new security technology to prevent AI agents from accessing data without permission, challenging Apple’s push to...
Eliminating the 'toggle tax': how CRM integration changes customer experience
TechCentralby Telviva·4d ago
Many businesses adopt multiple communication channels but fail to integrate them properly. This leaves information siloed, providing an incomplete understanding of the customer’s view of the...
Dimension Data deserves to be remembered for more than this
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·4d ago
There is a sentence in Jason Goodall’s remarkable confession this week that I keep coming back to.
The memory crunch is making Samsung fabulously rich
TechCentralby Agency Staff·4d ago
Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected that its quarterly profit would top ₩100-trillion, a world first for a technology company, estimating a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter earnings as...
'We will not be judged by Goodall': former Dimension Data executives fight back
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·4d ago
Four former Dimension Data executives fingered by Jason Goodall in his admission of wrongdoing over the 2019 Campus sale have hit back.
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