Travel eSim is Truecaller’s first move beyond spam protection in 15 years of operation, but it’s entering a crowded market.
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South Africa’s national treasury is not regulating crypto into submission. It is regulating itself into irrelevance.
The Gautrain Management Agency reportedly plans to launch its own Uber- and Bolt-style e-hailing service in October.
New Reunert CEO Anthonie de Beer’s first results show a group split between strong tech and weak infrastructure exposure.
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WeBuyCars plans to offer its AI-powered Inspectify vehicle inspection platform to the broader used-car market.
South Africa’s banks are taking divergent paths on AI, with Investec insisting people, not machines, define the institution.
Africa Finance Corporation has committed up to $100-million to tech fund managers to deepen local venture capital.
Africa Bitcoin Corporation, formerly Altvest Capital, is moving its JSE listing from AltX to the main board.
Microsoft estimates 23.1% of working-age South Africans use generative AI – well ahead of the rest of the continent.
State-aligned Iranian media is floating a plan to charge the world’s tech giants rent on subsea cables in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can autonomously carry out tasks across Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro.
Meta will dethrone Google as the world’s biggest digital advertising player by the end of 2026, Emarketer says.
A hacker group has pulled a GTA-style heist on Rockstar, claiming 78.6 million records lifted via third-party Anodot.
Social media platforms need to stop young users wasting hours doomscrolling, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
