Google has launched Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app for South African users, a feature that lets the chatbot draw on a user’s Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube and Search history to produce personalised responses. The feature, which rolled out in the US earlier this year, is being made available first to paying subscribers on Google’s…
Absa Group has announced a series of executive leadership changes, headlined by the appointment of former M-Pesa Africa MD Sitoyo Lopokoiyit as CEO of its personal and private banking division. Lopokoiyit, who takes up the role on 1 April, joins from Safaricom, where he led the strategy and growth of M-Pesa, Africa’s largest fintech platform….
Soroush Negahdari,BBC Monitoringand Ghoncheh Habibiazad,BBC Persian WANA via REUTERS Iranian authorities responded with lethal force as the protests in Tehran escalated on 8 January “My friends are all like me. We all know someone who was killed in the protests.” For Parisa, a 29-year-old from Tehran, the crackdown by security forces in Iran earlier this…
This Entrepreneurship Month, Consult Financial Adviser, Shaun Meintjes shares steps that business owners can take to protect their personal finances if they find their business failing. Ask any entrepreneur what it is like to own a business and they might answer that it’s a bit like taking a sea voyage. When you start a business,…
Just one day after overtaking SpaceX as the world’s most valuable private company, OpenAI announced its latest acquisition: Roi, a personal finance startup. Roi offered a “one-stop shop” for managing financial portfolios and featured an AI chatbot that provided personalized investing advice. Read: Sony ULT Field 5 Review: ULTimately Based While the details of the…
Accra — Nearly 30 years ago, five of us – bipartisan Congressional staffers on Capitol Hill – joined forces with five African leaders, including officials of the African Union and even a few Heads of State. We locked ourselves into the granular trade details, often late into the night, drafting what would become the African…
Vehicle tracking solutions firm Tracker has launched its Sayf personal safety and tracking app. Vehicle tracking solutions company Tracker has unveiled Sayf, a personal safetyand tracking app. Tracker’s Sayf app joins other personal safety apps in the market. These include Eyerus, Netstar’s Companion app, the CrimeSpotter app, as well as crime-fighting safety app Namola. The…
PORTLAND, Ore. — Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data by 23andMe without customer consent. The lawsuit comes as a biotechnology company seeks the court’s approval to buy the struggling firm. Biological samples, DNA data, health-related traits and…
