Latest Technology News In South Africa
Zhou Hongyi founded Qihoo 360’s security business in China in 2005, focusing on free consumer security software. The company challenged paid antivirus vendors by distributing protection at no cost and monetising the resulting user base through browsers, search, advertising and other internet services.
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Chad Richison founded Paycom in Oklahoma City in 1998 after working in the payroll industry and seeing a gap between outsourcing services and software customers could control directly. The company aimed to provide enterprise-style payroll technology with the service and liability support of an outsourced provider.
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Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan founded ServiceTitan in 2012 after seeing that their fathers, both home-service contractors, had few modern software tools for running their businesses. They built a cloud platform specifically for trades such as HVAC, plumbing and electrical services rather than adapting generic CRM software.
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San’an Optoelectronics grew in China around compound-semiconductor epitaxy and chip manufacturing, particularly materials used for LEDs. The company developed production capability in gallium nitride and related compounds rather than focusing on conventional silicon logic processors.
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Robert Reffkin and Ori Allon founded Compass in New York in 2012, originally under the name Urban Compass. The company paired salaried technology development with a traditional real-estate brokerage model, aiming to give agents better software for managing clients, listings and marketing.
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PayPay Corporation was established in 2018 through the SoftBank and Yahoo Japan ecosystem to accelerate smartphone payments in Japan. The service launched with a QR-code model that let merchants accept payments without installing expensive card-terminal infrastructure.
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Semtech was founded in 1960 in Southern California and built a business around analogue and mixed-signal semiconductor products. For decades the company supplied power-management, protection, interface and signal-integrity technologies before becoming widely associated with a low-power wireless technology called LoRa.
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Kenichiro Sato founded the company that became ROHM in Kyoto in 1958, initially producing resistors for radios and other electronics. The original corporate name, R.ohm, reflected the resistor’s unit of electrical resistance before the business moved into semiconductors.
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Kakao’s modern history centres on KakaoTalk, the mobile messaging service launched in March 2010 by a company founded by internet entrepreneur Kim Beom-su. The service arrived as smartphones spread rapidly in South Korea and used mobile data rather than per-message SMS charges.
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Zia Chishti and Kelsey Wirth founded Align Technology in 1997 around the idea that a sequence of clear removable aligners could straighten teeth without conventional metal braces. The concept depended on digital modelling and manufacturing: scan a patient’s teeth, plan movement in software and fabricate a series of slightly different plastic aligners.
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