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Month: April 2017

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Huawei, Pegasus in deal to jointly deploy smart, safe city solutions globally

April 30, 2017 admin 0

Huawei has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pegasus, a DarkMatter subsidiary, to develop and deploy joint smart and safe city big data solutions tailored to customer requirements. The agreement, signed at Huawei’s Global [c]

Events Noticeboard

DISCOP Abidjan to be held from May 30 in Cote d’Ivoire

April 30, 2017 admin 0

Over 500 delegates are expected to attend the 3rd edition of DISCOP Abidjan set to take place from May 30  to June 1, 2017 including about 200 acquisition executives representing Francophone Africa’s fast growing broadcasters, cable, satellite, mobile payTV [c]

BLOG

Selfie tips to capture your special moments

April 29, 2017 admin 0

Most of the time, people are obliged to take vast series of selfies, since many pictures turn out to be disappointing, and nothing like anticipated. This may create awkward moments where people in the shots have [c]

News

ZTE cloud solution passes interoperability test, wins enterprise award from Open Source Cloud Alliance

April 29, 2017 admin 0

ZTE has announced that its cloud management platform solution, Tulip Elastic Cloud System (TECS), has successfully passed the Interop Challenge test at the Global Cloud Computing Open Source Summit and has been awarded the Outstanding Enterprise [c]

News

Chris Diaz, ex-KQ marketing boss, gets global award for use of Oracle solution in digital marketing

April 29, 2017 admin 0

Bidco Africa’s Sales and Marketing Director Chris Diaz has become the first Kenyan and African to win the Markie Ward, an international competition that recognises excellence in marketing. Diaz won the Markie Award for 2017 [c]

BLOG

Coming to Showmax Kenya in May: Don’t Mess with Kansiime, Churchill Show and more

April 29, 2017 admin 0

Showmax Kenya has a whole lot of amazing local and international titles coming in May like Don’t Mess with Kansiime, Brad Pitt’s Resurrection, Beauty and the Beast plus a whole lot more. Check out the full list below. [c]

Analysis & Features

UNECA hosts session to encourage girls to take ICT careers during #GirlsinICTDay

April 29, 2017 admin 0

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on Thursday April 27 participated in the International Telecommunication Union’s Girls in ICT – #GirlsinICTDay – celebrations in Addis Ababa, with ECA professionals joining other distinguished guests in training and sharing [c]

News

Tigo Tanzania subscribers can now read digital books online via Kitabu App

April 27, 2017 admin 0

Tigo Tanzania has partnered with Jackson Group to launch a new online application dubbed, Kitabu App, an eBook created to provide various books (audio and visual) to different readers in Tanzania. Kitabu App comes into [c]

News

Bridge Alliance, Ericsson partner to deploy Unified Delivery Network in Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific (APAC) region

April 27, 2017 admin 0

Bridge Alliance members and Ericsson have partnered to deploy Ericsson’s Unified Delivery Network (UDN) across 12 countries in the Asia Pacific region. UDN is a global content delivery network (CDN) which connects content providers all [c]

BLOG

There are not enough women in ICT careers – Sophia Bekele #GirlsinICTDay

April 27, 2017 admin 0

By Sophia Bekele Every young girl & woman ought to have the tools to take control of her life. Today, it’s almost uniquely ICT skills that offer growing employment, innovation, and opportunity with the large [c]

BLOG

Shedding light on the African shadow economy

April 27, 2017 admin 0

By Daniel Monehin The Informal Economy, or if you have a penchant for the more colourful descriptor, the “Shadow” or “Grey” Economy, is typically the term used to refer to the portion of a country’s [c]

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MTN Rwanda subscribers can now buy Tecno W2 smartphone via installments, get Mobisol solar home system

April 27, 2017 admin 0

Mobisol and MTN Rwanda have partnered to offer customers a high performance Tecno smartphone to be purchased through an installment payment scheme. The smartphone model Tecno W2 is offered along with the Mobisol solar home [c]

CSR

30 students graduate from Digital Skills for Life’s programme

April 27, 2017 admin 0

Huawei Technologies in partnership with the ICT Authority and eMentoring Africa has graduated the first cohort of students from a development programme that provides technology skills to enable disadvantaged youth to improve their employment opportunities. [c]

News

AgilityGrid to distribute Intransa’s video surveillance solutions in Africa, Middle East and Europe (EMEA)

April 26, 2017 admin 0

AgilityGrid, a Dubai-based value added distributor that provides IP CCTV security solutions for businesses and government bodies across the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Australia, has signed an agreement with Intransa, a platform delivering solutions [c]

News

OLX Kenya unveils ‘Sell It For Me’, an escrow payment service for car dealers

April 26, 2017 admin 0

Online classifieds service OLX has launched a new service that now allows car buyers and sellers to transact safely and conveniently. The service dubbed “Sell It For Me” will, through verified OLX champs, handle the [c]

News

Kameme TV now available on DStv and GOtv platforms

April 26, 2017 admin 0

Kameme TV, a vernacular TV station from local media services provider MediaMax Group, is now on both DStv and GOtv platforms in Kenya, allowing MultiChoice through its DStv and GOtv services to expand its local [c]

CSR

Mastercard programme commits $1 million grant to Rwanda SMES over 3 years

April 26, 2017 admin 0

In support of Rwanda’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth has confirmed a grant of up to US $1 million over 3 years to support the growth of SME business owners in [c]

News

First Distribution becomes Kasperky Lab’s MSP partner in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria

April 26, 2017 admin 0

Kaspersky Lab has launched a new partner program in Africa, aimed at managed service providers (MSPs) that already offer security services or would like to add them to their current portfolio. The program helps MSPs [c]

News

Ethiopia and Egypt to host key ‘Girls in ICT Day’ events on April 27

April 26, 2017 admin 0

International Girls in ICT Day highlights the value of women in the field of information and communications technology (ICT), and seeks to attract more girls to the increasing career opportunities of this expanding field. Each [c]

Analysis & Features

Nigeria’s digital economy could add $88 billion, employ over 3 million in next 10 years

April 26, 2017 admin 0

It has emerged that financial services within Nigeria’s digital economy could add US $88 billion and create over 3 million new jobs over the next 10 years. This comes as Ministers from developing countries namely [c]

News

Datacentre investment leaders highlight Africa investment opportunity

April 26, 2017 admin 0

Large scale datacentre investment opportunities are increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa as key commercial hubs benefit from the critical combination of high quality international backbone infrastructure (subsea cable) connectivity and mushrooming local demand for data, say [c]

BLOG

Smishing attacks: A rising trend in cybercrime

April 26, 2017 admin 0

By Eyal Benishti  Last week, a Santander Bank customer in the U.K. received a text message saying her debit card had been compromised. To resolve the issue, the sender of the text requested she call a [c]

News

CA awards Kshs 836 million education broadband connectivity contract to 3 firms

April 25, 2017 admin 0

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has awarded contracts to three companies contracted to roll out high-speed internet connectivity to 896 public secondary schools in Kenya under the first phase of implementation of Universal Access Fund projects. [c]

News

Innovate Ventures targets Somalia, Somaliland-based startups, entry deadline is June 30

April 25, 2017 admin 0

Innovate Ventures is for the second year running its tech start-up accelerator, the Innovate Accelerator. Launched in partnership with VC4A, Telesom and Oxfam as part of Work in Progress! project, Innovate Accelerator saw over 180 [c]

Analysis & Features

Joint cybercrime operation in ASEAN region identifies compromised websites and gov’t portals.

April 25, 2017 admin 0

An INTERPOL-led operation targeting cybercrime across the ASEAN region has resulted in the identification of nearly 9,000 Command and Control (C2) servers and hundreds of compromised websites, including government portals. The operation, run out of [c]

News

OLX Kenya to unveil escrow payment service for car dealers

April 25, 2017 admin 0

OLX is this morning set to unveil a new service that will allow some of it users in the vehicle category pay directly through escrow, making it safer for users when selling and buying cars [c]

News

Safetrac wins sales and marketing award Arvento Vendors Summit in Turkey

April 25, 2017 admin 0

Safetrac has been awarded the Best Sales and Market Penetration Award 2016 by Arvento Mobile Systems at the Arvento Vendors Summit in Turkey. The award recognizes Arvento Mobile Partner companies that have made massive progress [c]

BLOG

Why Samsung air conditioners offer better cooling at lower cost, reduced risk of climate change

April 25, 2017 admin 0

With rising concerns over carbon emissions and wasteful energy consumption, energy efficiency has become a critical area of focus for the construction and HVAC sector. Underpinning this is the fact that the rising temperatures are [c]

News

Mastercard holders can now use their cards at McDonald’s outlets in Egypt

April 25, 2017 admin 0

Mastercard and McDonald’s announced a deal that will bring simpler and faster payment options to all the first food chain’s clients customers when buying their favorite meal in store, at the drive thru or when [c]

News

Our team restored all services by 4.30pm – Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore

April 25, 2017 admin 0

Following the service outage which affected its network from about 9.30am yesterday – April 24 – Safaricom now says that its team of engineers have managed to identify the root cause of the outage, which [c]

News

Equitel subscribers can now use EazzyPay Paybill to get services on eCitizen portal

April 24, 2017 admin 0

County governments and departments within various ministries are set to improve revenue collection, accountability while enhancing the quality of services for taxpayers following Equitel’s partnership with the eCtizen platform. Equitel has introduced an EazzyPay Paybill [c]

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Almost 50% of cryptocurrency users fear losing money due to volatility, and no longer use digital currencies

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With Africa set to become next global tech hub, here’s what it could mean for industries across the board

AVA to assemble BasiGo’s electric-powered buses for Nairobi PSV operators

mTek partners with Kyosk.app and Fin Africa to offer digital insurance services to over 100,000 retail outlets

AFEX names new management changes as it expands operations to Uganda

Kenya Association of Music Producers granted CMO license by KECOBO

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Kenyan fintech Kyanda Africa among 11 startups picked for Cohort 3 of Africa Startup Initiative Program




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