Naspers, through its Naspers Foundry investment business, is leading a R160-million series-A funding round in South African fintech start-up Naked Insurance.

It turns out even the most compliant Chinese billionaires aren’t immune to the regulatory onslaught sweeping the world’s second largest economy.

Promoted | Johann Coetzee, a well-known and seasoned ICT industry executive, has joined NEC XON, taking over from Eugene le Roux as executive vice-president of the organisation.

Promoted | Digitised document and signing workflows are areas of digital transformation that ensure business continuity in the new hybrid, remote work environment.

Promoted | LanDynamix has completed a project aimed at assisting Henry Schein Dental Warehouse to improve its IT performance and telephone quality.

Recent unrest in South Africa has stressed us all. It’s important we have coping mechanisms in place and find ways of dealing with the high levels of anxiety caused. By Ovations’ Leoni van Tonder.

Users of Facebook’s WhatsApp instant messaging platform can now send disappearing photos and videos on its platform starting this week, as it looks to better compete with Snapchat.

The UK is considering blocking a takeover of ARM by Nvidia due to potential risks to national security, according to people familiar with the discussions.

US investigators have joined an investigation into Mirror Trading International, seen as 2020’s biggest cryptocurrency scam, to help liquidators of the South African scheme recover the assets of out-of-pocket investors.

Herd immunity is no longer a discussion the world – or South Africa – should be having. We should start to avoid using that term in the context of Sars-CoV-2, because it’s unlikely to materialise in our lifetimes. By Shabir A Madhi.