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Finding the Business Case for Blockchain

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Inside the blockchain developers’ mind: Building truly free-to-use DApps

Cointelegraph is following the development of an entirely new blockchain from inception to mainnet and beyond through its series, Inside the Blockchain Developer’s Mind, written by Andrew Levine of Koinos Group. In myprevious article, I explained from first principles what was needed to build a truly free-to-use social decentralized application (DApp) and how Koinos is that solution. In that article, I explained that to deliver a truly free-to-use DApp, it must be possible for someone other than the end-user to provide the network resources (“mana” in the case of Koinos) required to run a given smart contract. Blockchain mana Now that we understand why Koinos is designed the way it is (to support free-to-use experiences), I’m going to explain in more detail how this works. One of the innov...

vivo Finally Launches Y76 5G in SA

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The Kids Corner App on HUAWEI MatePad: 3 Things You Need to Know

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How to Promote Your Company the Effective Way

Image sourced from Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org As any business owner knows, there is a lot of competition these days no matter what industry you are in. This is why promotion and marketing have become so vital, as otherwise, you will be left trailing behind by bigger competitors that have larger budgets. The good news is that promoting your business does not have to cost a fortune these days thanks to modern technology. The world of business advertising and promotion has changed dramatically over recent years. In the past, it was all about glossy print ads, radio advertising, and TV advertisements. These days, it is all about social media, brand activation, and other forms of digital marketing. This has made promotions easier and more affordable even for smaller businesses. Of ...

Paysend Partners with Afrimoney to Enable Transfers to West Africa

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MultiChoice Zambia Partners with MTN Mobile Money

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IBM Announces Real-Time AI for Transaction Processing

Image sourced from mobileworldlive.com On Thursday, IBM an international tech company, announced IBM z16, a Telum processor that allows clients to infuse AI inferencing for real-time insights. This innovation is designed to enable clients to analyse real-time transactions, at scale — for mission-critical workloads such as credit card, healthcare, and financial transactions. IBM z16 also is specifically designed to help protect against near-future threats that might be used to crack today’s encryption technologies. “IBM z16 is an essential component for organisations across the African continent as they accelerate their digital transformation journey. By simplifying hybrid cloud adoption, modernizing applications, and keeping data safe, encrypted, and resilient – clients can have the cloud ...

Meta Rumoured to be Working on New Virtual Currency: ‘Zuck Bucks’

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Uber May Soon Let You Book Flight Tickets on its App

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Sweden’s central bank completes second phase of e-krona testing

The Swedish central bank’s digital currency project, a proposed CBDC, known as the e-krona has successfully finished its second phase of trials. According to Riksbank, the nation’s central bank, the asset is now technically ready to be integrated into banking networks and facilitate transactions.  During the second phase of the e-krona pilot project — which began in February 2021 — the CBDC was investigated on the matter of its technical ability to function within the country’s existing digital banking infrastructure. Participating banks included Handelsbanken and Tietoevry. The report indicated that the e-krona could indeed be successfully exchanged for fiat money and used in transactions, both online and offline. This phase of testing also brought legal clarity to the project ...

New South African App Lets You Consult Doctors from Your Smartphone

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