Author: Brand Spot

Bolt has released its flagship Gig Economy Report in partnership with Ipsos, revealing how ride-hailing is helping South Africans earn income, build financial independence, and navigate a tough economic environment. The report provides fresh insight into how digital platforms are reshaping livelihoods, with many South Africans turning to ride-hailing not just as a source of income, but as a pathway into entrepreneurship in the face of high unemployment and rising living costs. Simo Kalajdzic, Senior Operations Manager at Bolt, said: “In South Africa’s current economic climate, ride-hailing is no longer just about mobility, it’s about opportunity. Many drivers are using…

VALR, Africa’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume, has integrated with Onafriq, the continent’s leading digital payments gateway. This partnership enables VALR users across Africa to fund their accounts directly through mobile money in local currencies, significantly broadening access to digital financial services for millions of people.  Mobile Money’s Role in African Financial Inclusion Mobile money serves as a foundational element of financial services in Africa, facilitating everyday transactions, remittances, savings, and credit in areas with limited traditional banking access. According to the GSMA’s State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2025, global registered mobile money accounts reached 2.1…

Africa Data Centres has partnered with fibre optic cable infrastructure provider Oni-Tel Fibre Networks to strengthen connectivity across its Gauteng facilities. Under the agreement, Oni-Tel will deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity to Africa Data Centres’ Midrand and Samrand campuses through its Infinity fibre interconnection platform. Purpose-built for data centre interconnectivity on a resilient network with direct access to Gauteng’s key data centre hubs, this provides customers with fast, high-capacity bandwidth and secure, carrier-grade performance, supporting the levels of uptime required in today’s data-driven environments. “As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, AI deployment, and data-intensive workloads, they need dependable, scalable connectivity within trusted…

Huawei today reinforced its commitment to advancing digital inclusion in Kenya through a donation of broadband equipment to an ICT Hub classroom at the New Mukuru primary school, within the Mukuru affordable housing project. The firm has developed low cost, quick to install, easy to maintain internet infrastructure solution known as DQ-ODN that is Safaricom enabled, to offer entry level unlimited home fiber access from 800 KES a month, which translates to between 50 -70% cheaper than regular packages. The equipment, comprising of a fiber-to-the-office solution, with five Wi-Fi 7 access points , suitable for large number of devices and…

Nutanix has announced NKP Metal which extends the Nutanix operating model and Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) solution to support Kubernetes deployments directly on bare-metal infrastructure.  Running Kubernetes on bare metal can deliver the performance and flexibility many modern workloads require, particularly for edge environments and AI training workloads that rely on dense GPU infrastructure. But operating these environments at scale often introduces new complexity, from provisioning physical servers to managing firmware updates and integrating storage and networking services. As a result, many organisations end up having to build a highly specialised and siloed team for managing bare-metal Kubernetes deployments. Unlike…

Samsung has announced it has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 gaming monitor brand for the seventh consecutive year, continuing a run that started in 2019.  According to the latest data from International Data Corporation (IDC), Samsung captured 18.9% of the global gaming monitor market by revenue, reinforcing its leadership in high-performance gaming displays. Samsung also ranked first in the OLED gaming monitor segment for the third consecutive year, achieving a 26% market share. “As the No. 1 gaming monitor brand, our goal is to continue leading the market with differentiated innovation,” said Hun Lee, Executive Vice President of Visual Display (VD) Business at…

Visa has spotlighted 18 high-growth fintech startups from 10 African countries at the Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator Cohort 5 Demo Day, held during GITEX Africa in Marrakech. Marking a major milestone for the program, Visa also announced that the accelerator has now supported more than 100 startups across the continent since launch, underscoring its growing role in advancing innovation, expanding access to digital payments, and strengthening Africa’s fintech ecosystem. The Cohort 5 Demo Day brought together founders, investors, corporate partners, and industry leaders to celebrate the latest class of startups completing the accelerator’s intensive three-month program. The cohort reflects the dynamism and diversity of Africa’s fintech…

Few figures have been as closely associated with the rise of the cryptocurrency industry as Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ). In his new memoir,  Freedom of Money, A Memoir of Protecting Users, Resilience, and the Founding of Binance,  CZ offers a candid account of the early days of crypto, the rapid explosion of Binance, and the personal consequences of building at the centre of one of the fastest moving industries in modern finance.   Available globally from 08th April 2026 on Amazon Kindle and Paperback, Freedom of Money traces CZ’s journey from his early life and unconventional path into technology through the…

Konza Technopolis, in partnership with Delta Motor Sports, hosted the highly anticipated Easter Weekend ‘Race Wars’ motorsport event at Konza Technopolis. The two-day motorsport spectacle attracted over 1500 motorsport enthusiasts, innovators, creatives, and industry stakeholders, marking another important milestone in Konza Technopolis’ journey as Africa’s premier smart city. The event featured 40 high-performance racing cars competing across multiple categories, delivering an adrenaline-charged showcase of speed, skill, and cutting-edge motorsport engineering. Race Wars is being designed to be more than a motorsport competition, with two races, namely Rolling races and DIG races at Konza Technopolis’ half-mile streetscape. It represents a bold…

Schneider Electric has appointed Steven Santini as Vice President of its Secure Power division for Sub-Saharan Africa. The Secure Power division plays a critical role in supporting modern data centres, distributed IT environments and critical infrastructure by delivering technologies designed to ensure energy reliability and digital availability. The division is central to enabling what Schneider Electric describes as a foundation for “digital resilience” in an increasingly connected world. Santini brings more than 15 years of experience across IT infrastructure, channel leadership, and strategic alliances. He returns to Africa with deep expertise in compute, storage, and software-defined solutions, having most recently…