Carsten Höltkemeyer South African payments fintech Yoco has appointed Carsten Höltkemeyer as CEO, effective 1 June 2026, ending a nine-month interim period during which co-founders Bradley Wattrus and Lungisa Matshoba have run the business as co-CEOs. Höltkemeyer joins Yoco from a long career in European banking and fintech. He served as CEO of Berlin-based embedded…
Three patients suspected of having the hantavirus were evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship and were on their way to the Netherlands for medical care, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The three are German, Dutch and British nationals, including a British crew member, according to the WHO. The rare outbreak of the…
Recent reports indicate that Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI models, has agreed to pay Google a staggering $200 billion over the next five years for access to cloud servers and specialized chips. This follows an earlier announcement this month regarding a partnership that granted the AI startup significant infrastructure resources. This massive agreement…
Hantavirus victims on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean may have been infected prior to joining the cruise and human-to-human transmission on board cannot be ruled out – although it is rare – the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The deadly disease outbreak has triggered an international public health response. Seven individuals of…
Fighters attack ‘Africa’s Alcatraz’, which detains high-value prisoners, and disrupt crucial supply chains to the capital. In a new wave of attacks in Mali, an al-Qaeda-linked group has stormed a main prison housing fighters from the armed group and set fire to trucks with food supplies heading to the capital Bamako. Fighters from the Jama’at…
Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the infrastructure for customer engagement in the AI era, kicked off its user conference, SIGNAL, by unveiling its next generation platform capabilities for the agentic era. Generally available today, Conversation Memory, Conversation Orchestrator, Conversation Intelligence, and Agent Connect combine to turn disparate interactions into continuous, intelligent, and personal conversations across humans, agents,…
Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents like rats and mice, and can cause severe disease in humans. Not all hantaviruses cause disease in people, and only a small number like the Andes Hantavirus, are known to make humans sick. How is it spread from rodents to humans? People usually become infected when…
When the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, another crisis quietly grew behind closed doors. Reports from around the globe suggested that violence against women and girls was increasing. Governments, nongovernmental organizations and advocates began referring to the phenomenon as a “shadow pandemic.” To determine whether these headlines and informal…
Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su told CNBC on Wednesday that her massive forecast revision was due to the demand surge for central processing units led by the growth of agentic artificial intelligence. “Agents are really driving tremendous demand in the overall AI adoption cycle, and we’re very excited to be in the middle of…
The four-year smartphone contract is becoming South Africa’s quiet answer to unaffordable phones – and a costly one for buyers who don’t read the fine print. A R30 000 purchase, spread over 48 months, can commit a buyer to more than R60 000 across the contract life when bundled airtime, data and insurance. The device…
