Latest Technology News In South Africa
Cheng Wei founded Didi Dache in Beijing in 2012 after working at Alibaba, launching a mobile taxi-hailing service as smartphones were rapidly changing urban transport. The app matched passengers with licensed taxi drivers before expanding into private ride-hailing and other mobility services.
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Leaf Hua Li founded Futu in Hong Kong in 2012 after a long career at Tencent, where he had worked on QQ and other major internet products. Futu built a digital brokerage aimed at giving technology-oriented investors a more integrated trading, market-data and community experience.
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MACOM’s roots stretch back to the 1950s through Microwave Associates, an early supplier of microwave semiconductor and component technology. The company developed radio-frequency and microwave products for communications, defence and industrial applications.
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Tyler Technologies traces its corporate roots to Saturn Industries, founded in 1966. The business later adopted the Tyler name and spent decades transforming from a diversified industrial holding company into a specialist in public-sector software. Unlike many software companies, Tyler’s modern identity emerged through divestitures and acquisitions rather than from one original software product.
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SCREEN traces its roots to Saijiro Ishida’s 1868 printing works in Kyoto. Research into glass screens for photographic reproduction led to Dainippon Screen Mfg. Works in 1937 and the incorporation of Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. in 1943. The original ‘screen’ referred to finely ruled glass plates used to create halftone images for printing, not electronic displays.
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JD Health grew out of the healthcare activities of Chinese e-commerce group JD.com, combining online pharmacy retail with digital health services before being reorganised into a dedicated healthcare subsidiary. The early model used JD.com’s logistics and commerce infrastructure to sell medicines and health products online while gradually adding consultations and other healthcare services.
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Guidewire was founded in 2001 by six entrepreneurs who believed property-and-casualty insurers needed modern core systems that could replace ageing policy, claims and billing software. The company began by focusing on claims, a mission-critical process where insurers needed configurable systems able to handle complex rules without relying on decades-old mainframe code.
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World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee challenged MIT researchers in 1995 to find a better way to handle growing web congestion. Applied-mathematics professor Tom Leighton and graduate student Danny Lewin developed algorithms for distributed content delivery and incorporated Akamai in August 1998 with Jonathan Seelig and Randall Kaplan. Rather than build a larger central server, the early Akamai idea distributed copies of content across many servers and routed users to nearby capacity.
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Hwatsing Technology was established in China to develop semiconductor manufacturing equipment, with particular emphasis on chemical mechanical planarisation systems. CMP flattens wafer surfaces between process steps, making it possible to build many precise layers without accumulated topography destroying later lithography.
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F5 Networks was founded in Seattle in 1996 by Jeffrey Hussey and other networking entrepreneurs during the rapid commercial growth of the web. Its early BIG-IP products distributed incoming traffic across multiple servers so websites could remain responsive and available as demand changed.
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