BitPesa has partnered with Bitbond to improve access to financing for SMEs in Africa. Bitbond, which is based in Berlin, Germany, connects fixed-income investors with small business owners who need loans. To make global cross-border lending [c]
IRONSCALES, the Israel-based email security company, has announced a new partnership with Check Point Software Technologies to improve the automatic detection and remediation of email security threats. As part of the partnership, IRONSCALES will integrate IronTraps, [c]
Kilimall projects to grow its business threefold over the next two years, riding on the rising wave of e-commerce in Kenya. According to its two-year strategic plan, the company seeks to double its market this year and triple [c]
ICWE GmbH, the organisers of eLearning Africa – the conference on technology assisted learning and training – has announced that the event will be held in Mauritius in September. The conference will be held under [c]
In a push to further drive digital transformation and encourage the adoption of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, software multinational, Oracle, has reiterated its committment to assist corporates and small and medium organisations in [c]
To mark the 10th anniversary of Safaricom’s mobile money service M-PESA, WorldRemit has released new data showing that the Kenyan diaspora is the biggest sender of digital remittances to mobile accounts. Transfers to mobile money [c]
In the wake of new technologies making life simpler and much easier, Airtel Kenya has launched a new voice product that is meant to simplify the lives of Wananchi by offering more for less. The new [c]
Samsung Electronics will tomorrow – Wednesday, March 29, 2017 – open its latest brand store in Africa at Two Rivers Mall. The store re-looks how corporates should engage with their consumers by incorporating user experience. It will [c]
Perhaps in response to its competitors which have recently announced new bundles with attractive and flexible tariffs for voice, SMS and data, Airtel Kenya is tomorrow set to launch what it terms “a product that [c]
Africa should take advantage of innovation and technology and use them to drive sustainable development, infrastructure and industrialization, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Peter Thomson said Sunday. Addressing a high-level meeting on [c]
Abu Dhabi National airline, Etihad Airways, has moved to reassure passengers of its efforts to minimize disruption following the introduction of a new US travel directive on electronic devices. As of 25th March 2017, passengers [c]
For a long time, the Microsoft PR account – locally and regionally – was handled by Bertolli and Associates before it moved to Tell-Em PR. The account later changed its PR agency to Corporate Talk [c]
Last week Thursday March 23, the government launch the M-Akiba bond through which the National Treasury seeks to raise Kshs 5 billion for infrastructural projects, both new and on-going. M-Akiba is a product of the [c]
Frost & Sullivan has recognized Huawei with a 2016 Global Award for product leadership based on its recent analysis of the global telecom energy industry. According to Frost & Sullivan, Huawei has demonstrated exceptional commitment [c]
Samsung Electronics has announced that its 2017 QLED TV line-up has been certified by the UHD Alliance (UHDA) as ULTRA HD PREMIUM. The certification encompasses the 2017 QLED TV portfolio, including the Q9, Q8 and [c]
This year’s Easter weekend is still three weeks away. However, Startimes subscribers in Kenya have a reason to celebrate early as the payTV service provider is offering its customers 7-days of free upgrade upon renewal [c]
A new report released by Strathmore University-based Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) indicates that Safaricom has software which can be used for traffic manipulation, surveillance and even aid in censorship. The CIPIT report, [c]
As part of its efforts to create a safe and secure transaction environment for merchants and financial institutions in the region, Mastercard hosted a mock hack, a data breach exercise aimed at empowering merchants and [c]
Ericsson has signed a multi-year contract with the BBC, UK’s public service broadcaster, to provide post-production and media management services for BBC Creative following a competitive tender process. Ericsson will provide a portfolio of end-to-end [c]
By Wafa Alnasayan and Eric Kuan We hope your year started out safe and secure! We wanted to share with you a summary of our 2016 work as we continue our #NoHacked campaign. Let’s start with [c]
Professor Mark Graham, while addressing the 4th UNI Africa Conference in Dakar, Senegal, has warned of the danger of ‘parasitic capitalism’ where digital companies give little back to the places where they are embedded and [c]
Equity Group has announced that its strategy of going digital is paying off as both the volume and value of transactions have shot up since the launch of the lender’s digital banking strategy in late [c]
On this week’s, ‘CNN Marketplace Africa’, host Eleni Giokos reports from Nairobi, Kenya, to examine a new creative venture by Coca-Cola, a televised music show called Coke Studio Africa. Airing across 25 African countries on [c]
SingularityU East Africa has announced the winners of the inaugural Global Impact Challenge (GIC) in the region, a competition launched on February 13, 2017 in partnership with ICT Authority, Kenya and the East Africa Community. [c]
Tigo, has continued to support the Tanzania government’s under-five birth registration initiative through an innovative mobile application that is massively accelerating provisioning of birth certificates for children under the age of five. The under-five birth [c]
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has awarded the Kenya Integrated Elections Management System (KIEMS) contract to Safran Identity and Security. In a statement, IEBC said that it picked Safran for two reasons – that is [c]
By Miroslav Nikolac Buyers rarely use all the information necessary to evaluate the utility of a particular good or service even when it’s accessible, but in most cases, they do not possess even a fraction of [c]
The latest edition of the INTERPOL Digital Security Challenge had participants hunting down a suspect who had encrypted confidential medical records with ransomware. Cybercrime investigators and digital forensic experts from 20 countries and territories were [c]
Sophia Genetics, a global provider of data-driven solutions for the medicare industry, has unveiled the list of African hospitals that have started integrating SOPHiA, the company’s artificial intelligence, into their clinical workflow to advance patients’ [c]
In support of Ghana’s Vision 2020 goals, Mastercard has committed its support to helping the country to develop a cashless economy, in furtherance of its push to be an economic powerhouse in Africa. This was [c]
A new mobile service to help Kenyans access and purchase quality medicine online is set to be launched later this month. MYDAWA is a mobile app that enables consumers to purchase authentic medicines, health and wellness products. [c]
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