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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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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China Resources Microelectronics brings together semiconductor businesses with roots in Wuxi and other Chinese electronics operations that were consolidated under the China Resources group. The company developed as an integrated device manufacturer, combining chip design, wafer fabrication, packaging and testing rather than relying on a purely fabless model.
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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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Chris Britt and Ryan King founded Chime in 2012 after concluding that mainstream banking products often worked poorly for everyday consumers living between paycheques. Rather than become a traditional bank itself, Chime built a mobile financial-services experience on top of partner banks, focusing on simple accounts and fewer consumer fees.
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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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Dylan Field and Evan Wallace started Figma in 2012 with the ambition of making creative tools collaborative and accessible through the web. The founders spent several years building graphics technology capable of delivering professional design performance inside a browser before releasing Figma more broadly.
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