TikTok grants R1m to SA talent

TikTok has announced the inaugural cohort of Rising Voices grant recipients, with 20 creators receiving a...

‘Story agency’ debuts with multimedia content for Africa

Africa No Filter (ANF), the not-for-profit organisation focused on narrative change, has launched bird, Africa’s first, optimized-for-mobile,...

Liquid Tech flows into Mthatha

Liquid Intelligent Technologies South Africa has provided a digital boost to the Eastern Cape with the...

Netflix sponsors African story lab

It’s boom time for African animation as Triggerfish and Netflix team up for another opportunity for...

Mobile money surges in Africa

The emergence of unicorns - companies valued at a billion dollars or more - across the...

Comic Con Africa back next year

The next live event for Comic Con Africa will return to the Johannesburg Expo Centre in...

Now explore SA in VR

Mzansi Quest, created by Jacaranda FM with Tacker, is the first free South African virtual reality...

Google gives startups a boost across the continent

Google has announced a new Google for Startups Accelerator (GFSA) Africa class, the launch of a...

Sounds of Congo rainforest opens to world’s researchers

An audio data set of more than one million hours of continuous recordings made over three...

Transsion leads Africa smartphone market

Samsung holds onto second spot, while Oppo enters smartphone top three, at expense of Huawei, and...

$150,000 grants offered to early-career scientists in Africa

Applications are open for the $150 000 JWO Research Grant for early career scientists on the...

Dip ahead, but PCs set for healthy growth in Africa

A massive tablet deal in Egypt last year means a sales dip in the second quarter...

Liquid hits 100,000 kilometre fibre mark

Liquid Intelligent Technologies has rolled out 100,000 km of fibre, making it the largest independent network...

African solutions take on VC world

IAN LESSEM, managing partner at Havaíc, provides an overview of the trends making an impact on...

How to access freelance work in Africa

South African tech freelance collective BeyondMedia is hosting a LinkedIn live event for freelancers, journalists, and...

Zero-rated platform hosts 15,5-million users

Vodacom’s annual results reveal a massive demand for information from websites that don’t incur data charges,...

AlphaCode awards R2m to startups

Ten South African fintech startups earned R2m in rewards after pitching their ideas in a virtual...

SA online retail leaps to R30-billion

Online retail in South Africa more than doubled in just two years, thanks to the explosion...

How Cape Town made Bruce Lee’s dream come true

It was a movie first pitched by the kung fu legend, and his daughter finally made...

What it takes to go global

Aura, a security and medical response platform, recently announced its expansion into Kenya, followed closely by...