The Winner of the Proptech Innovator of The Year Award: 2024
Lisa, a smart leasing platform, has been honored with the prestigious 2024 Proptech Innovator of The Year award. This accolade was presented at the Residential Investment & Development Summit recently held at the Sandton Convention Centre in South Africa. Lisa’s journey to winning this award was marked by the launch
Read moreWhy do medical tests always have error rates?
Most people implicitly assume medical tests are infallible. If they test positive for X, they assume they have X. Or if they test negative for X, they’re confident they don’t have X. Neither is necessarily true. Someone recently asked me why medical tests always have an error rate. It’s a
Read moreSwiggy turns Minis into a link-in-bio platform
Indian food delivery and quick commerce startup Swiggy is pivoting one of its smaller businesses, Swiggy Minis, into a link-in-bio service. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreFintech Fragment eases bank account reconciliation, nabs $9M from Stripe, Jack Altmam, others
Fragment's digital ledger API applies real-time, double entry accounting to find where things aren’t adding up. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreLinx emerges from stealth with $33M to lock down the new security perimeter: Identity
Identity management is one of the most common fulcrums around which security breaches have pivoted in the last several years, and one of the main reasons it’s the gift that keeps on giving to malicious hackers is that it’s a nightmare for organizations to track. A security startup founded in
Read moreSA’s Health Delegation Arrives in Munich for AIDS Conference
The South African delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Joe Phaahla, arrives in Munich, Germany, ahead of the 25th International AIDS Conference scheduled for 22 – 26 July 2024. This year’s theme, “Put people first,” emphasizes the need to strengthen human rights, improve healthcare facilities, and safeguard civil
Read moreSolar Energy at R1.00/kWh, Electricity to Increase to R4/kwh
Residents in major metros across South Africa are facing substantial double-digit increases in their electricity bills starting from 1 July. The average increase for key industrial and urban electricity tariffs stands at 13.29%. Eskom’s endless blues One Energy’s Teresa Kok. Every municipal cost-of-supply study and Eskom’s declining revenue base, exacerbated
Read more6 Best Time Tracker Apps for Freelancers
A time tracker app allows freelancers to properly monitor the time they spend on a client’s project. You can then share the reports and timesheets with your client. You can also use time tracker software to self-evaluate your computer usage. A time tracker allows you to see how long you
Read moreNew Partnership to Bolster Cybersecurity Throughout Africa
TitanHQ is proud to announce an exciting new strategic alliance with ATS Network Management, marking a significant milestone in bolstering cybersecurity across Africa. Under this partnership, ATS Network Management will serve as a value-added distributor, offering TitanHQ’s advanced cybersecurity solutions to clients throughout 28 countries in Africa. This collaboration signifies
Read morePesa unlocks new markets to keep remittances flowing to emerging economies
Founders of Pesa, a remittance fintech, know too well how costly, inaccessible and unreliable remittance services drive people to opt for risky informal channels — like WhatsApp groups — to transfer money. Their firsthand experience using informal channels and realizing how prevalent their use was among Africans living in the
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