NewsFeed Qatar’s late Father Emir leaves behind a lasting media legacy through establishing a free press and launching Al Jazeera in 1996. The network went on to reshape journalism in the Arab world and beyond, giving a platform to marginalised voices. Published On 13 Jul 202613 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media…
The original discrepancies in Bitcoin and Litecoin balances were identified in early 2021. The founder of iCE3X, one of South Africa’s oldest crypto-currency exchanges, has challenged claims by the company’s liquidators that more than R30 million in crypto assets remain unaccounted for. Gareth Grobler, the former sole director and shareholder of iCE3X, says he has…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) NetJets’ first fatal crash kills influential Texas VC founder NetJets says it will not speculate on what caused one of its planes to crash onto…
World Economic Forum founder professor Klaus Schwab and UJ vice-chancellor and principal professor Letlhokwa Mpedi. (Image supplied) Professor Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and former chairperson, has urged local youth to pursue purposeful social entrepreneurship. This, as the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to create new categories of social entrepreneurship, according…
Payfast founder Jonathan Smit has acquired payment technology provider iVeri, marking a shift in South Africa’s fintech sector. Jonathan Smit | image supplied The deal brings together iVeri’s nearly 30-year track record in payment infrastructure with Smit’s experience in building and scaling digital payment platforms. Smit, who founded Payfast in 2007, led the business for…
Three world-class innovators are the founder licensors of the new Point of Sale (POS) patent pool, covering 2G to 5G technology, which Sisvel has launched today. Huawei, LG Electronics and Nokia have made their standard essential patents (SEPs) reading on cellularly connected POS devices available through the programme, so simplifying access to the increasingly ubiquitous…
Defense spending has been the talk of Singapore’s Airshow this week but that’s not an accurate way to measure military strength, Palmer Luckey, founder of defense tech firm Anduril Industries, said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” Wednesday. That comes after U.S. President Donald Trump in January expressed interest in raising the U.S military budget to…
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Kabelo Ncholo’s entrepreneurial journey is filled with hard knocks, tough lessons, inspiration and great successes. Born into humble circumstances in the village of Bapong (Gelukspan) in the North West, raised by a single mother, and starting adult life fending for himself in Johannesburg, he built Y-Brand from a R350 restaurant tip into a leading marketing,…
Carles Reina, GTM manager at Eleven Labs, shared why he invested in AI company. Eleven Labs The angel investor who backed a billion-dollar AI startup when it was still in its infancy said he decided to invest in the company after just 30 minutes of meeting one of its founders. Carles Reina first decided to…
