Latest Technology News In South Africa
Allegro was launched in Poland in 1999 as an online auction marketplace during the country’s early consumer-internet era. The platform initially connected individual buyers and sellers, then evolved into a broader marketplace used by professional merchants.
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Niklas Östberg started an online food-ordering service in Sweden in 2008. In 2011, Berlin incubator Team Europe formed Delivery Hero Holding and appointed Östberg as chief executive. The early proposition was to replace phone calls and paper takeaway menus with online ordering while restaurants handled the actual delivery.
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DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 by Ben and Moisey Uretsky with a team that included Mitch Wainer, Jeff Carr and Alec Hartman. The founders believed the major public clouds were powerful but unnecessarily complicated for individual developers and small software teams.
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GlobalWafers was formally incorporated in October 2011 when Sino-American Silicon Products carved out its semiconductor wafer business into a separate company in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The business already had wafer expertise and international assets inherited from its parent, allowing the new company to begin with a broader manufacturing base than a conventional start-up.
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iFLYTEK was founded in 1999 by university classmates in China around speech-recognition and speech-synthesis technology. The founders concentrated on making computers understand and generate spoken Mandarin and other languages at a time when speech AI was still a specialised research field.
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Dr Wayne Dai founded VeriSilicon in August 2001 in Shanghai after earlier building electronic-design-automation businesses in the United States. VeriSilicon was created around a fabless service model: help customers design complex system-on-chip products and license reusable semiconductor intellectual property without owning leading-edge fabrication plants.
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Daniel Borel, Pierluigi Zappacosta and Giacomo Marini founded Logitech in 1981 in Apples, Switzerland, working from a farm building after backgrounds in software and engineering. The founders experimented with several computer projects before recognising that the mouse could become a mass-market interface as graphical personal computing expanded.
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BitMine Immersion Technologies emerged as a US digital-asset infrastructure company focused on Bitcoin mining and immersion-cooling technology. The early business used liquid immersion to cool specialised mining computers, aiming to improve thermal efficiency and equipment density.
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David Goldman founded Sage in 1981 after wanting software that could create quotes and manage accounting for his print business. He worked with Newcastle University computer specialist Paul Muller and student Graham Wylie to build the system. The team realised the same software problem affected many small businesses and turned the internal tool into a commercial product.
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Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht and Shlomo Kramer founded Check Point Software in Israel in 1993. The company’s breakthrough was stateful inspection, a firewall approach that tracked the context of network connections rather than evaluating each packet in isolation.
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