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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Flash memory maker Kioxia has announced a 245 TB NVMe SSD with PCIe 5.0 speeds. Built using the company’s 8th-gen BiCS FLASH technology, it is the world’s highest-capacity storage device and is available in both 2.5-inch and EDSFF

BYD subsidiary reportedly set to supply Tesla Shanghai Megafactory with battery cells Credit: BYD Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has reportedly decided to decelerate the pace of the scheduled mass production at its €4 billion ($4.64 billion) plant in Szeged, Hungary in 2026, and instead shift some production to another new plant in Turkey where labour

Credit: Spirit AI Chinese e-commerce company JD.com on Monday completed strategic investments in three embodied intelligence companies: Spirit AI, LimX Dynamics, and EngineAI. Based on the announcements from the three companies, the total investment is estimated to have approached two billion yuan ($280 million) in a single day. JD.com says it is focusing on supply

A collage of the 3 food delivery brands in China: Meituan, Ele.me and JD.com Over the past few months, on-demand retail has reshaped China’s e-commerce landscape, intensifying competition among major retail players. Alibaba’s Taobao Instant Commerce has unlocked new growth opportunities by integrating multiple services, prompting the company to ramp up investment and consolidate resources.

BYD officially launched its first electric sports car, the Yangwang U9, with a price tag of RMB 1.68 million ($233,352) in Shanghai on Feb. 25, 2024. Credit: BYD BYD is set to be the first Chinese automaker to enter the ultra-premium car segment in Europe with the launch of its Yangwang-branded vehicles, which will put

The rising number of social media users and online shoppers on the continent has fuelled a rise in social commerce. Nigerian startup Vendy joins a growing list of startups looking to become the de facto payment layer for Africa’s social commerce economy, beginning with WhatsApp. In the long run, the startup is looking to embed its payments

When M-KOPA Holdings, a UK-headquartered fintech with over five million users across five African markets, restructured its shareholding in 2019, it was viewed internally as a safeguard against dilution — a routine measure in the startup scene. Six years later, that decision is at the centre of a potentially high-stakes court case that could force

In February 2025, over 40 employees at 54 Collective, an early-stage venture studio that helped African founders build their startups, received shocking news. Their firm was shutting down, and they were being laid off. At the time, it was almost unheard of for an African venture firm to lay off employees and shut down, but

Within Alaro City, which borders Eleko, a coastal community on the fringes of Lagos, Itana is building Africa’s first full-stack AI and data growth zone, a futuristic enclave of servers, startups, and machine learning models.  Described as a “zone within a zone,” this initiative by Itana is more than just real estate; it’s a strategic

WhatsApp and Instagram owner, Meta, has agreed to release the information of those behind accounts that posted revenge porn of minors across its platforms in South Africa. The social media giant was responding to a July 14 application by digital rights law firm, Digital Law Company, asking the court to hold Meta in contempt for