Investec has appointed Abey Mokgwatsane as the group’s chief marketing officer. Mokgwatsane joins the global executive team and will have overall responsibility for the group’s marketing function across all its operations. Mokgwatsane has enjoyed an illustrious career, holding leadership positions at some of South Africa’s leading companies and advertising agencies. Most recently, he was the...
Day: <span>21 October 2021</span>
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PayPal Offers $45 Billion to Acquire Pinterest
PayPal Holdings Inc has offered to buy digital pinboard site Pinterest Inc or $45 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, a combination that could herald more financial technology and social media tie-ups in e-ecommerce. It would be the biggest acquisition of a social media company, surpassing Microsoft Corp’s $26.2 billion purchase of...
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Elon Musk is Single Handedly Disrupting the Automotive Industry
Tesla has announced the launch of their first ever electric semi-truck and a revamped Roadster sports car that can do 0-100km in 1.9 seconds! Let’s start with the Tesla Semi and its stats: 0-100km: 5 seconds 0-100km with 80,000 pounds (over 36,000kg) on its back: 20 seconds Range: 500 miles (over 800km) Guarantee: 1 million...
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Payfast Partner with Tymebank to Introduce Buy Now Pay Later with MoreTyme
Payfast an online payments solutions has partnered with Tymebank, the South African newly established digital bank to announce the addition of a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment option to PayFast with MoreTyme by TymeBank. Both entities reports, with this launch, businesses using PayFast as their payment gateway now have the ability to let their customers pay for their purchases in...
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Virgin Media O2 Introduce Volt – the New Supercharged Service
London, UK: Virgin Media O2 is today lifting the lid on its first ever joint product, Volt, bringing together award winning connectivity and amazing entertainment from both Virgin Media and O2, to give customers even more from their services – more speed, more data and more value. Virgin Media and O2 customers can now supercharge their...
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Facebook Plans to Change its Name to Focus on the Metaverse
The social media giant Facebook to rebrand the company with a new name to focus on building the metaverse and other virtaul technology solutions. The rebranding comes at a time when Facebook is facing criticism over a range of scandals, including a series of internal documents leaked by a whistleblower, Frances Haugen, who testified before the...
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Alibaba Unveils Custom ARM-based Server Chip for Cloud Computing Data Centers
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced it has developed a processor that will be used to power servers in its data centers. The development marks the latest foray into semiconductors for the company, mirroring moves from other global cloud computing players while also dovetailing with Chinese government’s priorities to boost the nation’s chip sector....
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Details Inside | Lawerence “LAW” Watford Aims To Tell A New Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Legacy
Essence Magazine’s 2021 filmmaker to watch, Lawerence “LAW” Watford has secured rights to the book The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age by Patrick Parr. Watford plans to adapt the book for television via his Tyler Street Films partnership with Jack Manning III and Tiffany Elle Burgess. The biography, written by Parr and published by Chicago Review Press in 2018, explores the life of a...