Latest Technology News In South Africa
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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DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 by Ben and Moisey Uretsky with a team that included Mitch Wainer, Jeff Carr and Alec Hartman. The founders believed the major public clouds were powerful but unnecessarily complicated for individual developers and small software teams.
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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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Eric Lefkofsky founded Tempus in August 2015 after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and he encountered how difficult it was to connect clinical and molecular data during treatment. He recruited Ryan Fukushima as the first employee and began building a platform intended to make healthcare data more useful for personalised treatment decisions.
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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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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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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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