Latest Technology News In South Africa
Webzen was founded in South Korea in April 2000 and gained early recognition with the online role-playing game MU Online, launched in 2001. The company listed on KOSDAQ in 2003 and expanded its portfolio through new games, publishing and intellectual-property extensions across online and mobile platforms.
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Mobility Global became a standalone public company in July 2026 when it was separated from S&P Global, but the businesses inside it have much older automotive-data roots. By September 2026, Mobility Global traded independently on the New York Stock Exchange under the MBGL ticker and provided automotive data, software and intelligence services.
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Skillz was founded in 2012 by Andrew Paradise and Casey Chafkin as a platform for competitive mobile games. The company created real-money skill-based tournament infrastructure, became publicly traded in 2020 and later broadened its parent-company activities beyond the original Skillz platform.
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centrotherm’s roots stretch back decades in German thermal-processing and production technology for electronics and related industries. The company became a supplier of equipment and process technology used in semiconductor and photovoltaic manufacturing, including high-temperature and deposition processes.
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MaxLinear was founded in 2003 by a group of semiconductor engineers including Kishore Seendripu to develop highly integrated radio-frequency and mixed-signal chips. By 2026, MaxLinear supplied integrated circuits for broadband access, connectivity, infrastructure and related communications applications.
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USERJOY was founded in Taiwan in May 1995 and later combined businesses in 2004 under the USERJOY Technology structure. The company developed and published PC, online, mobile and console games, expanded across Asia and listed on the Taipei Exchange in 2008.
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Computer Modelling Group traces its roots to a Calgary research foundation established in 1978 to advance reservoir simulation technology. The organisation commercialised products including IMEX, GEM and STARS during the 1980s and became a publicly listed Canadian software company in 1997.
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Netskope was founded in 2012 as businesses began moving data and applications from private networks into cloud services that traditional perimeter security tools could not easily see or control. By 2026, Netskope sold a cloud-delivered security platform for web, cloud applications, private applications, data and user access.
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AudioCodes was co-founded in Israel in 1993, with Shabtai Adlersberg among its founders, and initially developed digital signal processing and voice-compression technology. The company became a supplier of VoIP silicon, boards and gateways, listed on Nasdaq in 1999 and later expanded into session border controllers, enterprise voice, Microsoft Teams integration and conversational voice infrastructure.
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The current CLEAR business was founded in 2010 by Caryn Seidman-Becker and Ken Cornick after they acquired the assets of an earlier airport identity service out of bankruptcy. By 2026, CLEAR operated a biometric identity platform used for airport and other verification experiences in the United States.
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