Author: Anita Bosman

Moscow: TECHz – News Desk Kaspersky has expanded its flagship awareness platform, Kaspersky Interactive Protection Simulation (KIPS), introducing new and updated scenarios that reflect the evolving cyberthreat landscape. The release aims to help corporations, banks and IT companies enhance coordination, and decision-making in the face of complex modern attacks. According to the Kaspersky Incident Response analyst report, the topmost attractive industries for attackers in 2024 were industrial companies (23.5% requests for Kaspersky Incident Response services), government institutions (16.3%), financial (13.3%) and IT (7.2%) sectors. With cyber incidents becoming more complex, organizations need training tools that mirror real-life situations – allowing…

Dubai: TECHz – News Desk Flowciti Group has officially announced its launch as a holding company specializing in smart cities solutions, bringing together technology, operational execution, and user experience within a fully integrated ecosystem. The group aims to accelerate urban transformation and support the development of smarter, more connected cities across the region. Flowciti operates across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, with a clear ambition to deliver a qualitative shift in how individuals interact with cities. Through comprehensive and integrated solutions, the group seeks to create sustainable value for the real…

New Delhi: TECHz – News Desk Kaizzen, a leading communications consultancy, announced the launch of service vertical Kaizzen AI Collective. This adds to the existing portfolio of public relations, crisis communication, digital and social services, production and creative studio, Kaizzen Insights and Public Affairs. These services will be offered to clients across all geographical boundaries, leveraging Kaizzen’s presence in India, UAE, and other global markets. With AI shaping narratives and fundamentally redefining how stories are created, shared, amplified, and influenced across the communications ecosystem, the role of intelligence-led, data-backed decision making has become central to modern communications strategies. Vineet Handa,…

Harare: TECHz – News Desk Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Limited (“Econet”) has announced the completion of a corporate reorganisation as part of its strategic and operational realignment. The restructuring consolidates the Group’s real estate and passive telecommunications infrastructure into a dedicated wholly owned subsidiary, Distributed Power Africa (Private) Limited, trading as Econet InfraCo. The assets transferred to Econet InfraCo include immovable properties and passive network infrastructure previously held by Econet Wireless (Private) Limited (EWPL) and other wholly owned SPVs within the Group. The transfer of assets was executed as a going concern, ensuring that ownership and operational control remained with the…

Abuja: TECHz – News Desk Fringe Infrastructure Limited has announced the upcoming launch of its Ikoyi Metro EDGE Data Center, set to go live on January 6, 2026. The data center represents a strategic investment in Nigeria’s digital infrastructure, marking the first node on the company’s regional EDGE platform and extending beyond traditional colocation services. The Ikoyi Metro EDGE Data Center is designed to accelerate digital transformation in the region by addressing critical challenges such as reliability, latency, and power stability. Fringe Infrastructure emphasized that the facility will provide a resilient foundation for businesses and organizations driving innovation across Africa.…

Abu Dhabi: TECHz – News Desk e& UAE, the flagship telecom arm of global technology group e&, announced the release of its latest strategic white paper, “Integrated Sensing and Communication in 6G: e&’s Perspective on Strategic Applications, Monetization Potential, and Global Roadmap.” The comprehensive report outlines e&’s vision for the next generation of mobile networks, where 6G infrastructure evolves from purely connecting devices to sensing the physical world in real time. Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is widely recognised as a defining feature of the upcoming 6G standard. By utilising radio signals for both data transmission and radar-like sensing simultaneously,…

Johannesburg: TECHz – News Desk Mukuru, a leading next-generation financial services platform, has partnered with Travelex, a market leader in foreign exchange services, to expand cash payout options for remittance customers across South Africa. The partnership reinforces Mukuru’s capabilities to provide accessible, safe, and convenient services to millions of customers who depend on remittances for daily needs. Positioned as a strategic alliance that will enhance reach to more customers, the partnership introduces Travelex as an additional payout channel within the Mukuru network. Customers can now access funds at any of Travelex’s 46 nationwide branches, strategically located in high-traffic, easily accessible…

Tokyo: TECHz – News Desk SORA Technology Co., Ltd., a Japan-based frontier technology startup focused on tackling infectious diseases and climate change, has raised approximately JPY 400 million (about USD 2.5 million) following the second close of its late seed funding round in November 2025. Headquartered in Nagoya, the company welcomed new investors Daiwa House Group Investment Limited Partnership, Central Japan Innovative Research Fund I, and UNERI Capital Fund Series 1, alongside existing shareholders. The funding will support the acceleration of SORA Technology’s satellite-, drone-, and AI-powered initiatives aimed at addressing major global public health and environmental challenges. The company…

Abu Dhabi: TECHz – News Desk The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has announced Falcon-H1 Arabic, a newly developed large language model built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture. Representing a complete departure from previous transformer-based versions, this new model establishes itself as the highest-performing system on the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard (OALL). This milestone sets Falcon-H1 Arabic as the leading Arabic AI model currently available, outperforming models several times larger while delivering state-of-the-art accuracy, context handling, and linguistic representation. His Excellency Faisal al Bannai, Adviser to the UAE President…

California: TECHz – News Desk VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, has announced a breakthrough inference architecture that powers the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, marking a new era for long-lived, agentic AI. The platform introduces a class of AI-native storage infrastructure designed for gigascale inference, built on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. It accelerates access to AI-native key-value (KV) caches, enables high-speed context sharing across nodes, and significantly improves power efficiency. As AI inference evolves from single-prompt tasks to persistent, multi-turn reasoning across agents, the assumption that context remains local is no longer valid. Performance…