Latest Technology News In South Africa
PLAID was founded in Japan in October 2011 and developed the KARTE customer-experience platform. KARTE entered closed beta in 2014 and launched commercially in 2015. PLAID listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market in 2020 and later broadened into additional customer-support and experience products.
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Gigas Hosting was incorporated in Spain in January 2011 and commercially launched cloud hosting and infrastructure-as-a-service later that year. It became a public limited company in 2015, listed on Spain’s growth market in November 2015 and later broadened its corporate objects and acquisitions to include telecommunications services.
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Thryv’s modern corporate structure emerged from the legacy US yellow-pages industry, particularly Dex Media and YP Holdings. After the businesses were combined, the group rebranded as Thryv in 2019 and increasingly shifted its strategy from printed directories toward SaaS tools for small businesses.
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Hisense traces its manufacturing roots to the Qingdao No. 2 Radio Factory established in 1969, with television production beginning soon afterwards. By 2026, Hisense Visual Technology focused on televisions, display products and related visual technologies within the wider Hisense group.
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Axcelis Technologies traces its roots to Nova Associates, founded in 1978 to develop ion-implantation equipment for semiconductor manufacturing. By 2026, Axcelis designed and supported ion-implantation systems used by semiconductor manufacturers to introduce controlled dopants into silicon during wafer fabrication.
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Ceragon was incorporated in Israel in July 1996 as Giganet and adopted the Ceragon Networks name in September 2000. The company developed high-capacity wireless backhaul and transport systems used by telecom operators and other network owners to connect cell sites and infrastructure.
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Mobile Factory was founded in Japan on 1 October 2001 and initially built mobile content for the feature-phone era. It moved from ringtone and content services into social applications and games, launched the location-based title Station Memories in 2014, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2015 and experimented with blockchain before withdrawing from that business in 2024.
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Arab Sea Information Systems began providing technology services in Saudi Arabia in 1980. The company expanded enterprise software and government IT solutions across Saudi Arabia and other regional markets, building a long-lived business around Arabic-language and locally adapted systems.
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Asseco’s history is closely tied to the Polish software company COMP Rzeszów, developed from 1991 under founder Adam Góral. By 2026, Asseco was one of Europe’s larger software groups, supplying enterprise and public-sector systems across banking, insurance, healthcare, energy and government.
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OBIC Business Consultants was established in Japan in December 1980 and began operations in 1981, building software for core business administration. By 2026, OBC provided business-management software and cloud services aimed particularly at accounting, finance, payroll, HR and related operational processes.
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