Cross-Border Payments Made Easy with Yellow Card & Fireblocks
Yellow Card, Africa’s premier stablecoin on/off ramp, has announced partnering with Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure provider, to facilitate cross-border transactions for companies and people. Fireblocks simplifies the development of new blockchain-based businesses and the management of daily digital asset operations, successfully transferring over $6 trillion in digital assets. This
Read moreThe new generation of heavy lift rockets rising to challenge SpaceX
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Read moreGrafana Labs is now valued at over $6B
Grafana Labs, the open-source company that probably powers at least a few operational dashboards in your company, today announced the completion of a primary and secondary transaction worth about $270 million, with the proceeds going to the company and some of its stockholders. The company describes this as an extension
Read moreFord says a pickup truck will be the first EV built on its low-cost platform
The first vehicle that will be built on the low-cost EV platform Ford’s been developing in secret will be a mid-size pickup due out in 2027, the automaker announced Wednesday morning. The news comes as part of a much larger rewriting of Ford’s electrification plans. The company is abandoning a
Read moreUK’s competition authority ends probes of Apple and Google but will use incoming powers to ‘resolve app store concerns’
Apple and Google can take a breath after the U.K. competition watchdog announced Wednesday it’s closing a pair of investigations into their respective mobile app ecosystems, citing administrative priorities. Since March 2021, the U.K. regulator had been investigating Apple’s conduct in relation to the distribution of apps on its iOS
Read moreIT News Africa Announces BCX as Platinum Sponsor for #HISA2024
IT News Africa proudly announces BCX as the Platinum Sponsor for the highly anticipated Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa (HISA) 2024. BCX, a subsidiary of Telkom Group, is a prominent ICT solutions supplier and digital transformation partner for companies and public sectors in South Africa, SADC, and the UK. The event,
Read moreStory raises $83M at $2.25B valuation to build a blockchain for the business of content IP in the age of AI
AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and Stability AI have faced a lot of heat over how they’ve scraped data and rode rough-shod over others’ intellectual property when training and operating their foundational models. Now, a startup called Story — which today is announcing $83 million in funding — is bidding
Read moreMicrosoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo: Getty Images Microsoft’s latest monthly security update is wreaking havoc on dual-boot Windows and Linux systems. The software giant issued a security patch last week to fix a two-year-old vulnerability in the GRUB open-source boot loader used by lots of Linux devices. Microsoft’s
Read moreIndia’s trade minister decries e-commerce growth, Amazon’s ‘predatory’ pricing
India’s commerce minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday expressed concern over the rapid growth of e-commerce in the country, warning of potential disruption to small retailers. Speaking at the launch of a report on the impact of e-commerce on employment and consumer welfare in India, Goyal said the projected dominance of
Read moreWhat Cyber Risks Beyond IT Should Mining Focus On?
Despite the mining industry’s Operational Technology (OT) systems being vulnerable to cyberattacks, many decision-makers still see these threats as purely an IT issue, even though a breach could potentially disrupt mining operations. By compromising OT systems, cyberattacks can halt mineral extraction processes with severe consequences, including an impact on profitability
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