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CEO of RNR Healthcare, Vicky Ramancha aims to solve pharma production problems with artificial intelligence

Entrepreneur, ex-family office fund manager, Vicky Ramancha who is now a CEO and owner of RNR Healthcare is working on solving the world’s biggest pharmaceutical product production problem when it comes to shortages. Health has […]

CEO Profile: 5 Things you need to know about the Instacart leader Fidji Simo

Instacart starts trading today on Nasdaq. With its highly anticipated initial public offering, the grocery delivery company seeks to raise as much as $660 million at a valuation north of $9 billion. How the San […]

9 highlights about Elon Musk from Walter Isaacson’s biography

It’s been one of the longest-trailed and most highly anticipated nonfiction books of the year. For weeks, excerpts from Walter Isaacson’s 600-page biography of Elon Musk (titled, appropriately, Elon Musk) have been released to the […]

The End of free Social Media is coming

“It’s free and always will be” is no longer a Facebook slogan as you register or sign up for the social media platform. Now the slogan on the homepage is – “Facebook helps you connect […]

X is getting better and working on becoming a Super App

When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, many were against the move. This got worse with the rebranding exercise from Twitter to X. I was one of the few who considered the Twitter acquisition aswell as the […]

Inside the Tesla Cybertruck Production factory floor

It’s official. The Cybertrucks coming out of Tesla’s Texas factory are bad. Bad, bad, bad with a capital Musk, as shown by the judgment of the X-kingpin himself. After taking a production candidate of this […]

Fast Company Conversations

FastCompany (SA) Editor-In-Chief spoke with the co-founders, Omar and Tara Bawa of GoodWall, a skills platform. In this episode of Fast Conversations the two co-founders share the inspiration behind the formation of a platform that […]

Major Growth for WhereverWork Signals a New Era in the Remote Work Industry

“If you’re doing business, change is inevitable and constant” began Samuel Perez, spokesperson for WhereverWork, encapsulating the current atmosphere in the global workspace. Remote work, which once existed on the periphery of standard practices, has […]

The Google search challenge is here

Since 1890, there have been a few antitrust trials that shaped the biggest corporations in America. Standard Oil. American Tobacco. U.S. Steel. Alcoa. AT&T. IBM. Microsoft. These cases are almost always against high-tech firms that […]

The Future of WeWork is uncertain

WeWork is warning investors there are “substantial doubts” it will be able to stay in business. The company, in its second-quarter earnings, released late Tuesday, cited continued member churn and diminishing liquidity as reasons for […]

It’s time to move township based businesses to the digital space

Township based businesses suffered the most during the pandemic. Technology enabled established and city centre based businesses to still trade. The pandemic changed the adoption of e-commerce in South Africa. As a result a number […]

The Next Big Things From SAP

SAP, the German software giant recently hosted its flagship event where it announced its major innovations. At SAP Sapphire in Orlando, SAP SE unveiled sweeping innovations and collaborations that equip customers to tackle an uncertain […]

Twitter brand is dead, Long live the Elon Musk X Brand

This week marks an end of the Twitter brand era as Elon Musk transforms the platform. If you type X.com on your browser today you will now be redirected to Twitter.com. As Elon Musk was […]

Is Prime energy drink safe for kids? If not, why is it being marketed to them?

If you have tweens or teens living in your home, you’ve likely heard of Prime energy drink, owned by Congo Brands, and created by YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI (aka Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji). That’s […]

Here comes another Elon Musk company, xAI

Elon Musk on Wednesday announced his latest company, xAI, which he said in a tweet is meant “to understand reality.” Musk, whose portfolio also includes Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX, didn’t provide any other details or […]

SA Startups get UK backing and support

The South African startup ecosystem has received a financial boost and backing by the British High Commission’s UK-SA Tech hub. This comes in the form of funding (non-disclosed) to support the SA Startup Act Movement […]

Why Zuckerberg Threads is no Twitter killer yet?

Mark Zuckerberg only had one job: Make Threads a viable alternative to Twitter from the beginning. It didn’t need to be vastly superior. Or even a tiny bit better. It just needed to offer the […]

Millions join Threads on First Day of operations

While it’s too early to call Threads—Meta’s new microblogging platform—a bona fide “Twitter killer,” Mark Zuckerberg’s answer to Elon Musk’s flailing social network is off to a good start. Zuckerberg took to the new platform […]

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says self-driving cars could one day join drivers on the platform

Uber isn’t betting that autonomous vehicles are going to completely take over the rideshare industry. But the self-driving cars could make up a double-digit percentage of trips, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said during an on-stage interview […]

Stankevicius Group wants to transform into global investment bank

Stankevicius Group CEO and Founder Paulius Stankevicius says that current market condition is very unstable but it’s the perfect time to stack up cash and prepare for the next bull run. International local markets are […]

Salesforce wants to become the preferred AI enabler for businesses

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff scanned the crowd of corporate executives, journalists, and enthusiastic Salesforce fanboys sitting before him in a hotel ballroom in Manhattan on Monday and took an informal poll. “How many people here […]

Leading Crypto platform sued by US Regulator

The federal government is suing one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges as a long-simmering legal battle appears to be reaching a crescendo. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Coinbase on Tuesday, alleging that […]

Apple Trillion: The Apple Developer machinery has delivered

Back in 2007 when Apple introduced the iPhone, there was no App Store to go along with it. Steve Jobs wanted developers to code third-party web apps instead. Yeah, even geniuses have bad ideas sometimes. […]

Inside the rise of NVIDIA

Shares of Nvidia skyrocketed nearly 25% Thursday after the tech giant blew past earnings expectations late Wednesday. In just one day, the company’s market value jumped more than the total market cap of Qualcomm, Intel, […]

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