Latest Technology News In South Africa
Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell founded Aurora in 2017 after senior roles in self-driving programmes at Google, Tesla and Carnegie Mellon. The founders deliberately designed one autonomous-driving platform, the Aurora Driver, that could be adapted to several vehicle types rather than starting with a single car model.
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Manhattan Associates began in 1990 when five technology specialists working on an ERP project for clothing company Jockey saw gaps in how manufacturers complied with large retailers’ shipping and labelling requirements. They created a packaged warehouse-management product in Manhattan Beach, California, and named the company after that original location.
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QXO’s current strategy began in June 2024 when Brad Jacobs and co-investors invested US$1 billion into SilverSun Technologies, renamed the public company QXO and installed Jacobs as chairman and chief executive. Unlike a typical start-up, QXO was designed as an acquisition platform from the beginning, targeting the large building-products distribution industry and planning to use technology as an operating advantage.
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Amkor’s semiconductor lineage began in South Korea in 1968 with ANAM Industrial under Hyang-Soo Kim, while James Kim founded Amkor Electronics in the United States to market and sell semiconductor packaging services. The early Korean operation started with only a handful of wire and die bonders, performing the assembly work that protects bare semiconductor dies and connects them to external systems.
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Entrepreneur Bob Parsons founded Jomax Technologies in 1997 after selling his previous software company. The business entered domain registration as the internet opened to more commercial users and competition increased beyond the original registry structure.
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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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Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling developed the idea for a taxi-booking service while studying at Harvard Business School and launched MyTeksi in Malaysia in 2012. The first problem was practical and local: make taxi travel safer and more reliable by connecting passengers and licensed drivers through smartphones.
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Pro Medicus was founded in Australia in 1983 by Dr Sam Hupert and Dr Anthony Hall to develop software for medical practices and diagnostic imaging. The early business focused on managing the administrative and information workflows surrounding radiology rather than manufacturing imaging hardware.
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Bernd Greifeneder and Sok-Kheng Taing founded Dynatrace in Linz, Austria, in 2005 with a developer-led focus on understanding the performance of complex software applications. The company began around application performance monitoring at a time when enterprise software was moving towards distributed web architectures.
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Nexon was founded in South Korea in 1994 by Kim Jung-ju and partners during the early commercial internet era. The company focused from the beginning on online games rather than packaged console software, building worlds that could be updated continuously after launch.
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