The new Note 8 was unveiled yesterday and it exudes sleekness and power. The premium online-driven smartphone brand, Infinix, has once again outdone themselves with an excellent all-round smartphone model that is targeted at the mid-to-hig…
International Data Corporation (IDC) today hosted more than 160 senior ICT leaders on its industry-leading virtual platform for the 12th annual installment of its IDC South Africa CIO Summit [1], which ran under the theme 'The Race to Rein…
Power management company Eaton today announced its Vehicle Group is implementing a new 3D metal printing program as a part of its Industry 4.0 strategy to reduce development time and improve efficiency. The first metal printer system was i…
Sweden should reverse its ban on Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei [HWT.UL] and ZTE 0763.HK000063.SZ from a planned 5G spectrum auction to avoid a "negative impact" on its own companies, said China's foreign ministry.
“China e…
PayPal Holdings Inc PYPL.O said on Wednesday it will allow customers to hold bitcoin and other virtual coins in its online wallet and shop using cryptocurrencies at the 26 million merchants on its network.
The new service makes PayPal o…
Bitcoin extended its gains on Wednesday after PayPal Holdings Inc said it will allow customers to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies.
It was last up 3.2% at $12,305, just below its highest this year.
Snapchat's user numbers surged during the pandemic to 249 million people using the app daily, the company announced, beating all expectations.
That was a jump of 18% year-on-year, and Snapchat says it is now used by three-quarters of 13…
Faked nude images of more than 100,000 women have been created from social media pictures and shared online, according to a new report.
Clothes are digitally removed from pictures of women by Artificial Intelligence (AI), and spread on …
In South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria, APT groups are exploiting the current uncertainty around COVID-19 to steal sensitive information
Despite research showing an overall decrease in certain malware families and types in sub-Saharan Afric…
Nissan launched today the highly anticipated Magnite – a new compact SUV. A true reflection of the ‘Nissan-ness’ concept that aims to empower people through breakthrough products and technologies, and what better way to empower the South a…
Social media platforms have repeatedly found themselves in the United States government’s crosshairs over the last few years, as it has been progressively revealed just how much power they really wield, and to what purposes they’ve chosen …
Adobe is betting big on its Sensei AI platform, and so it’s probably no surprise that the company also continues to build more AI-powered features into its flagship Photoshop applications. At its MAX conference, Adobe today announced a han…
Stampli, a collaborative invoice management software company, introduced a payments product today called Stampli Direct Pay.
The startup launched back in 2015 with a mission to simplify invoice management through collaboration (and a da…
Instagram is today introducing a new way for creators to make money. The company is now rolling out badges in Instagram Live to an initial group of over 50,000 creators, who will be able to offer their fans the ability to purchase badges d…
International Business Machines Corp IBM.N edged past Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Monday, bolstered by higher demand for its cloud services, a business it is staking its future on as it prepares to spin off one of its le…
Russian hackers targeted this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo with the aim of disrupting them, UK officials said.
The Foreign Office said Russia's GRU military intelligence carried out "cyber reconnaissance" against officials and organisa…
The world's leading home appliance brand and smart home ecosystem builder, Haier Smart Home ("Haier", Shanghai: 600690), is introducing upgraded products and next-generation smart home solutions integrated with IoT to global customers at t…
This year’s Summit will host over 1,000 attendees and 60+ speakers calling in from 10 different time zones across 6 continents
The fifth Africa Fintech Summit (AfricaFintechSummit.com) will be hosted virtually this year through the Acce…
Google Cloud today announced the launch of Lending DocAI, its first dedicated service for the mortgage industry. The tool, which is now in preview, is meant to help mortgage companies speed up the process of evaluating a borrower’s income …
U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc said on Monday it would start exporting China-made Model 3 cars to more than 10 European countries this month.
Tesla, which started delivering vehicles made from its Shanghai factory in December, wi…
Netflix Inc will tell investors on Tuesday how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic affected membership in the third quarter - a period when analysts remain bullish on the company despite the return of live sports and more streaming competition.
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Instagram says it will do more to catch influencers who fail to disclose when they have been paid for their posts.
It follows an investigation by a UK watchdog which found the platform was failing to protect consumers from being misled.…
Google is shutting down its app designed to let friends and family locate each other in an emergency.
The Trusted Contacts app allowed you to nominate special contacts who could request to see your location - and automatically provide i…
Stripe makes a big acquisition, Google rolls out search improvements and Snapchat adds a TikTok-y feature. This is your Daily Crunch for October 15, 2020.
The big story: Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack
Stripe has made its biggest …
Twitter has announced an update to its hacked materials policy — saying it will no longer remove hacked content unless it’s directly shared by hackers or those “acting in concert with them”.
Instead of blocking such content/links from b…
The noise-cancelling over-ear headphone category is an increasingly competitive one, and consumers have never been more spoiled for choice. Shure entered the market this year with the Aonic 50, a premium-priced headset ($399) that offers a…
MoreMore than any other smartphone I’ve used this year, the Sony Xperia 5 II feels like a tool. It’s not just that it has a very understated design (though this definitely plays a part), it’s that Sony’s whole approach is to give you as mu…
Google will officially transition users from Google Hangouts to Google Chat starting next year. As part of the change, Chat, a messaging service previously only available to customers who pay for Google Workspace (the recent rebranding of …
Apple is taking another try at building a smart home speaker with the new HomePod mini, a smaller, less expensive version of its original HomePod.
The original HomePod was a product that focused more on being a great speaker, rather tha…
Google has added a new feature that lets you figure out which song is stuck in your head by humming, whistling or singing — a much more useful version of the kind of song-matching audio feature that it and competitors like Apple’s Shazam h…
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it was introducing new features across its search engine, Maps and voice assistant to help voters in the United States find their nearest voting locations.
Details on in-person voting or returning ma…
Facebook’s Instagram has agreed measures to crack down on hidden advertising by so-called influencers on its photo and video platform, Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Friday.
Influencers with thousands of follo…
EU antitrust regulators have extended their investigation into Alphabet GOOGL.O unit Google's $2.1 billion purchase of Fitbit FIT.N to Jan. 8 from Dec. 23, a filing on the European Commission website showed on Friday.
Such extensions ar…
"People have always wanted to travel fast, ever since the first person galloped across the plains on horseback," says Mike Bannister.
And he should know. Mr Bannister flew Concorde with British Airways for 22 years. As the airline's sen…
British Airways has been fined £20m ($26m) by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a data breach which affected more than 400,000 customers.
The breach took place in 2018 and affected both personal and credit card data.
Th…
Video calling app Zoom has announced a system to let people pay for live "online experiences".
Called OnZoom, the new spin-off platform is launching in beta with live events for fitness, music and art online events.
Zoom said it had …
Uber Eats’ South African unit on Thursday expanded delivery offerings, launching an app-based over-the-counter medicines service as it seeks to claw market share in the fast-growing online shopping sector in Africa’s most industrialised ec…
U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc TSLA.O cut the price of its Model S "Long Range" sedan in the United States to $69,420, its website showed, following a tweet bit.ly/2H0JCP0 flagging the cut earlier on Wednesday from Chief Executive E…
KPN has chosen Sweden’s Ericsson to build core elements of its new 5G mobile network following a decision last year not to select China’s Huawei, the Dutch telecoms company said on Thursday.
Huawei is effectively banned in the United St…
The U.S. State Department has submitted a proposal for the Trump administration to add China’s Ant Group to a trade blacklist, according to two people familiar with the matter, before the financial technology firm is slated to go public.
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Google's parent company, Alphabet, has unveiled prototype robots that can inspect individual plants in a field, to help farmers improve crop yields.
The robot buggies roll through fields on upright pillars, so they can coast over plants…
A news report by China.org.cn on China's chipmaking giant SMIC's N+1 process makes tape-out breakthrough.
China's chip customization solution provider Innosilicon announced on Oct. 11 that it has taped-out and completed testing of a pro…
GIL Automation, a long-standing partner to Siemens, has been appointed as a Value Added Reseller
Siemens Digital Industries strengthens its partnership with its automation portfolio in Nigeria; GIL Automation appointed as a Value Added …
Finland's Nokia NOKIA.HE has signed a 5-year deal with Google GOOGL.O to replace its IT infrastructure, including data centers, with Google's Cloud offering as the network equipment maker seeks to cut costs, it said on Wednesday.
“The a…
Apple’s iPhone 12 launch drew mixed reactions in mainland China on Wednesday, with fans cheering a 5G model for their favourite brand while others planned to wait for upcoming devices from local rivals like Huawei Technologies.
The much…
Apple embraces 5G, Facebook Messenger gets better integrated with Instagram and Kahoot raises $215 million. This is your Daily Crunch for October 13, 2020.
The big story: Apple introduces the iPhone 12
Apple’s big event today kicked …
Besieged by U.S. tech sanctions, Huawei may be looking to shake up its smartphone business that has taken a hit after losing core semiconductor parts and software services.
The Chinese giant is in talks with Digital China Group to sell …
Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O YouTube said on Wednesday it would remove videos from YouTube containing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, expanding its current rules against falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the pandemic.
The video…
Africa's biggest digital skills initiative is now underway. SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) officially launched its sixth edition on Monday October 5th with an all-new virtual format and a host of exciting new developments.
Speaking at a vi…
A pocket-sized super-zoom camera that gives users a front-row seat for life’s special moments
Canon Europe (Canon-Europe.com) today announces the launch of the PowerShot ZOOM - a palm-sized, lightweight 12 megapixel camera with image st…