Digital Trends

AUGUST 5, 2021

Apple has altered App Store pricing across a number of markets utilizing the Euro as their primary currency.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This week, researchers announced the discovery of an incredibly rare, two-million-year-old skull in South Africa. Here's how 3D scanning tech helped.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This morning I had the pleasure (and some anxiety, to be honest) of presenting to the SANGONeT Conference taking place this week and next in South Africa.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Planet42 , a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used cars from dealerships and rents to customers via a subscription model, has raised $30 million in equity and debt. Planet42, though based in South Africa, has Estonian roots due to the founders’ heritage: Oja and CFO Marten Orgna founded the company in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

As the global agricultural industry stretches to meet expected population growth and food demand, and food security becomes more of a pressing issue with global warming, a startup out of South Africa is using artificial intelligence to help farmers manage their farms, trees and fruits.

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The Next Web

JULY 19, 2014

Joseph is based in San Francisco and has lived and worked in Singapore, India, England, Australia, and South Africa. Joseph Pigato is the Managing Director of Sparked. Recruiting, interviewing and hiring staff overseas can be an adventure.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

As collection and processing of e-waste and discarded electronics in Africa reaches worrisome proportions, industry leaders and policymakers from all over the world are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on June 7, 2013.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2021

The feature is called the “ Television Block Function ” and Samsung says it was recently activated in South Africa after a number of Samsung TVs were taken from a company warehouse during a wave of protests and unrest last month. Blocking the TVs stolen in South Africa was presumably relatively easy. Image: Samsung.

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TechNode

JANUARY 18, 2024

Temu began selling its budget-friendly products in South Africa on Wednesday, according to the country column shown on the platforms official site, making Africa the sixth continent that the Pinduoduo sibling app now reaches after less than a year and a half in operation. Jiemian, in Chinese ]

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa and everywhere around and between AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“The establishments of digital banks in South Africa is in its infancy. With already existing shareholders like African Rainbow Capital (founded by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe), TymeBank says these new investors will grow the company into a top-tier retail bank in South Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Finclusion’s debt financing, which makes up the larger share of the overall round, was provided by local currency funds in Eswatini and South Africa. The fintech intends to grow existing operations in South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania and expand into Mozambique and Uganda.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Serunjogi founded Chipper Cash with Maijid Moujaled in 2018 to offer a no-fee peer-to-peer cross-border payment service in Africa via its app. Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. In May, it expanded to the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

South African-founded startup WhereIsMyTransport is one such company filling that gap for now. million Series A extension to continue its expansion across emerging markets; the company already has a presence in South Africa and Mexico. Today, i t is announcing a $14.5 According to Naspers, the size of its check was $3 million.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2009

This looks like a fascinating event to take place in South Africa this October: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy.

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Medium Technology Section

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Moonshot Kaleidoscope: Snapshots of Emerging Tech Around the Globe Continue reading on Medium

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. The three countries present Africa’s most connected populace and growing economy; the perfect environment to attract foreign capital before others.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Part of the investment will be used to hire more staff in South Africa and support the commercial expansion to the U.S. CEO Greg Chen founded the company in 2014 came from his 15-year span in the mobile industry, noticing how enterprises in South Africa struggled to target and engage their customers via SMS efficiently.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Nigeria and South Africa are in the top two; Egypt and Kenya switch. The publication didn’t give specific numbers this time, but it said Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and Egypt received the most investments in that order. billion, South Africa with $949 million, Egypt with $599 million, and Kenya with $411 million.

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TechSpot

JULY 18, 2023

Astronomers at the Atlas Observatory in South Africa first spotted 2023 NT1 on July 15, two days after making its closest approach to Earth. The asteroid entered a 60,000-mile radius of the planet – about 1/4 the moon's distance to Earth. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The sequence remained unchanged from Disrupt Africa’s 2019 list as well. million; South Africa, third at $142.5 Whereas Partech and Disrupt Africa highlighted funding activities per country of origin and operations, Briter Bridges chose to attribute funding to the startups’ place of incorporation or headquarters.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 4, 2021

A solar eclipse passed over parts of the southern hemisphere early this morning, including parts of South Africa, Chile, New Zealand, and Australia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Bohmert tells TechCrunch that the third fund aims to address the critical Series B funding gap that has characterised the venture capital asset class in South Africa, resulting in businesses not reaching full potential or exiting too early. Lately, we see an increase in companies able to raise $2 million to $5 million funding rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The startup’s B2B wholesale platform launching (in beta) today will sell products of up to 30 fashion brands including Rich Mnisi and Suki Suki Naturals, both from South Africa and Orange Culture from Nigeria to 15 retailers in the US. managing partner, Ajay Relan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. for every successful transaction made via Ozow.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In Africa, one startup is carving a niche for itself. The company, based in South Africa, has raised $3 million in seed funding to scale outside Africa and build the infrastructure for the digital insurance economy. However, it also powers affinity insurance players; some of the largest in South Africa actually.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Founded by Kiaan Pillay , Natalie Cuthbert , and Priyen Pillay , Stitch wants to provide full API access to financial accounts across Africa starting from its first market, South Africa. With wide and deep investor backing, Stitch will use the funding to consolidate growth in South Africa.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

The Wall Street Journal writes these other markets include South Africa and Russia, which were both flagged in the security consultants’ initial investigation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2009

But, I think Stevie Wonder is the top person in connections (example, when Stevie dedicated I Just Called to Say I Love You to Nelson Mandela while he was imprisoned, his music was banned in South Africa). I like their motto about submitting material: "Be nice. Don't steal. Tell the truth.".

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to a statement, the funding presents Naked with an opportunity to improve its AI and use it to grow Africa’s insurance market which is worth over $68 billion in annual gross written premiums. South Africa makes up 70% of this market, with an annual gross written premiums market of over $47 billion.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Access will be revoked in September for users in New Zealand and South Africa and for users in all other regions in October. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Today, Google shared a detailed timeline for Google Play Music’s shutdown.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

“With our first adtech business, we never dealt with real estate or property as we could never really service them in this country [South Africa]. When buying and selling homes, if you take South Africa, for example, 40,000 agents are marketing 300,000 listings at any time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

The pandemic has seen such platforms scale globally, and Africa is not exempt. A new platform (without a name yet) is launching out of South Africa and it wants to provide accessible quality care for Africans with its telehealth service. ” Sub-Saharan Africa has a healthcare market of about $90 billion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Kenya, on the other hand, is still within its radar as one out of three countries (including Egypt and South Africa) Mono plans to expand into next year. Hassan adds that Mono might complete the move to South Africa via a partnership with Absa bank this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Talk360’s partnerships with agents like PesaPoint in Kenya and Flash in South Africa, also enables users to purchase airtime vouchers from a network of over 750,000 physical points of sale. South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are some of the markets where the calling app is widely used.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Many of the publishers do provide us with permissions do not have global rights, and limit the availability of these books to certain jurisdictions • We first launched international Bookshare in India and have more than 1000 members there, as well as permissions agreements with more than ten publishers in India • We have recently concluded agreements (..)

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