Why Netstar is tracking your favourite sporting event

by nouman | Jul 30, 2026 | Company News, Lifestyle, Mark Forbes, NetStar, Netstar Bureau Services, Sections

Four sports, one platform: Netstar is testing whether movement data works beyond vehicles.

South African IT spending surging as AI boom lands locally

by nouman | Jul 29, 2026 | Gartner, IT services, John-David Lovelock, Mark Walker, News, Ranjit Atwal, Sections, T4i

Gartner’s South African forecast, shared with TechCentral, outpaces the global rate, with data centre spending nearly doubling.

London lands Africa’s hottest fintech IPO

by nouman | Jul 23, 2026 | Airtel Africa, Airtel Money, Bharti Airtel, Citi, Financial services, London Stock Exchange, MasterCard, MTN, News, Safaricom, Sections, Sunil Taldar, TPG

Airtel Money’s London listing will give investors a first clean benchmark for valuing African mobile money platforms.

Solve taxis and cash dies: Shop2Shop’s township thesis

by nouman | Jul 23, 2026 | Financial services, Flash, Garth Napier, News, Pepkor, Peter Berry, Pieter Erasmus, Sections, Shop2Shop

Hours after news of the Pepkor merger, Shop2Shop CEO Peter Berry has predicted cash will vanish from the townships.

After Anthropic ban, US battles ‘kill switch’ backlash

by nouman | Jul 23, 2026 | AI and machine learning, Anthropic, Aura Salla, Christophe Grudler, Donald Trump, Edward Fishman, Jacob Helberg, Marco Rubio, News, OpenAI, Sections

US diplomats have been told to counter claims that Washington can switch off AI models overnight.

Pepkor builds R21-billion fintech giant – and plans to list it

by nouman | Jul 22, 2026 | Financial services, News, Pepkor, Peter Berry, Pieter Erasmus, Sections, Shop2Shop

Flash and Shop2Shop will combine to form a R21.3-billion platform Pepkor plans to list separately.