The ongoing bitcoin bear market has been difficult for cryptocurrency entrepreneurs like Tyrone Ross, but it hasn’t been enough to slow him down. Bitcoin is down more than 60% since it reached a high point in November 2021, and the broader cryptocurrency market has been plagued by bankruptcies, scandals, criminal investigations and increased regulatory oversight. … Read More “Tyrone Ross remains optimistic amid the crypto winter” »
Equity Group Holdings 2023 Half Year Results Of Kshs.26.3 Billion Profit After Tax Equity Group Holdings 2023 Half Year Results Of Kshs.26.3 Billion Profit After Tax Amidst a tough operating global macro environment characterized by stubbornly sticky high inflation, high-interest rates, volatile exchange rates, and devaluation of emerging economies currencies, Equity Group has announced 2023 half-year … Read More “Equity Records Ksh 26.3 Billion Profit” »
Phase I trial in patients with relapsed or refractory Non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Boston Immune Technologies and Therapeutics, Inc. (BITT), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel tumor necrosis factor superfamily receptor (TNFSR) antagonist antibodies, announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared BITT’s Investigational New Drug application (IND) for a Phase … Read More “BITT Announces FDA Acceptance of IND for TNFR2 Antibody” »
The rand steadied as South Africa’s currency tracks developments affecting its biggest export partner China, which is ramping up support for the yuan. The rand fluctuated between gains and losses and was little changed at R19.07 per dollar as of 10:30 a.m. in Johannesburg. China’s onshore yuan was also largely steady at 7.28. Rand/dollar exchange … Read More “Rand steadies as China’s yuan sets course for SA’s currency” »
We’ve been following the efforts of University of Ferrara theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri to make sense of the enormous amount of information in life forms. His 2016 paper proposes to do it in a thoroughly physicalist science environment where life is just chemistry that once happened to swish together in an unusual way. As we … Read More “Can Information Be Separated From Intelligence? Part 3” »
In a bid to address the glaring gender disparity within the South African technology industry, GirlCode, a software development skills organisation, has undertaken an inspiring initiative. Their annual hackathon, held earlier this month in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban, witnessed a confluence of young female minds, eager to shake up the technology landscape. The event, … Read More “GirlCode hackathon empowers future tech queens” »
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The UK is at risk of falling behind other countries in the global race to reach net zero, according to a new study by Oxford Economics. Researchers have predicted British growth in low-carbon electricity output to reach 2.9 per cent by the end of the decade, lagging France (3.1 per cent) and Japan (3.2 per … Read More “UK could be left behind in green energy transition, study warns” »
In an interview with Bidvest’s Chief Information Officer Nomonde White-Ndlovu, the bank groups initiative in driving digital transformation was explored in greater depth. Nomonde reveals Bidvest’s aim to integrate state-of-art technologies to enhance the customer experience through improving security for digital onboarding and simplify the overall banking experience. The interview also reveals key AI tools … Read More “Fintech Forward: Bidvest Opts for AI Fraud Detecting Capabilities – IT News Africa” »
My Pivot Journal is a Ventures Africa weekly series documenting people’s career transitions from one industry to another, especially to tech. What’s the easiest way to guarantee people’s future? Working in insurance. And Adebowale Banjo is taking this up a notch through his attempt at building the future of Nigerian insurance through tech. However, he wasn’t always … Read More “My Pivot Journal: How Adebowale Banjo went from corporate banking to growing startups” »
