AI start-ups are attracting record sums of venture capital, but some of the world’s largest investors warned that early-stage valuations are starting to look frothy, senior investment executives said on Friday. “There’s a little bit of a hype bubble going on in the early-stage venture space,” said Bryan Yeo, group chief investment officer at Singapore…
Amazon has suspended its drone delivery service in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area of Arizona following an incident on Wednesday where two of its MK30 drones crashed into a construction crane. Read: Sony ULT Field 5 Review: ULTimately Based The crash occurred around 10:00 AM local time in Tolleson, Arizona, approximately two miles from…
Flenk Mnisi, acting chief operating officer of Sentech and Anton Jooste, MD of digital services for South Africa at Seacom. Submarine cable operator Seacom and signal distributor Sentech have signed a memorandum of understanding to accelerate the growth of small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa’s telecommunications sector. The agreement, signed at Seacom’s…
Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann Trade union Solidarity has signed a deal with US company Propay Prime US to export South African IT skills – online, from South Africa. Propay, which focuses on unions, non-profits and enterprises, delivers software as a service platforms, financial services and DevOps solutions. Solidarity has paid a number of visits to…
A court in the Netherlands has ordered Meta to modify the timelines on Facebook and Instagram, ruling that the current setup violates the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Read: Sony ULT Field 5 Review: ULTimately Based As reported by Reuters, the Dutch court found that Meta must provide users with simpler, non-profiled options for…
Broadband Infraco CEO Gift Zowa. Fibre-optic infrastructure company Broadband Infraco (BBI) yesterday officially launched its 800Gbps intelligent backbone network, in collaboration with Huawei SA. The launch, which took place at Gallagher Convention Centre, in Midrand, was attended by government and industry stakeholders, including the communications ministry’s leadership. BBI is one of several entities under the…
Seacom last week announced that it plans to build one of the highest-capacity subsea broadband cable systems the world has ever seen. Dubbed Seacom 2.0, the cable system – which will have an expected design capacity of a staggering 2 000Tbit/s – will be larger than the company’s original system, which brought high-speed connectivity to…
NTT Data has acquired South African Salesforce consulting partner Exah, a move aimed at strengthening its Salesforce and AI delivery capabilities across the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Alan Turnley-Jones, CEO of NTT Data in Middle East and Africa | image supplied The acquisition adds Exah’s local technical expertise and track record in customer-focused Salesforce…
Perplexity has announced a major change for its Comet AI browser, making it free for everyone worldwide. The browser was previously an exclusive feature, accessible only to Perplexity Max subscribers who paid $200 per month. Read: Sony ULT Field 5 Review: ULTimately Based The company stated that Comet had become “the most sought-after browser on…
Shen Li, President of Huawei Northern Africa, delivers the opening speech. Held on September 18 alongside HUAWEI CONNECT 2025, “Huawei Africa Night 2025” convened under the theme “All Intelligence for New Africa”. More than 500 partners, government representatives, experts, and industry leaders gathered to share the latest advances in ICT (information and communications technology) innovation…
