Digital skills are becoming essential for the jobs of today and tomorrow. From digital literacy to computer science education, these skills can open the door to greater economic opportunity in the workplace of the future. Unfortunately, [c]
Airtel continues to offer its customers more value for money with the revamp of its Amazing Data Bundles that have driven increased uptake of data and over-the-top services across the country. Its latest offering of [c]
The Mastercard Farmer Network, previously known as 2KUZE, received the Best AgTech solution award at the Digital Inclusion Awards recently held in Nairobi, Kenya. The awards recognise key business players in various sectors that have adopted innovative [c]
The Green Innovation Center in partnership with iceAddis, an innovation hub based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have announced a call for entries for the Green Innovation Slam 2018, a business competition designed to encourage and [c]
By Corine Mbiaketcha Nana Automation has already transformed industries in which complexity and performance demands must meet the challenges of fewer available resources, narrower profit margins and expanding product volumes. Examples include the car manufacturing [c]
Digital transformation is re-imagining industries around the world. Technology is no longer a nice-to-have, but a necessity for staying in business. Research shows that modern technologies like artificial Intelligence (AI) will contribute up to $15.7 [c]
Following the successful launch of the #HuaweiY9 2019 in the Kenyan market over 2000 pre-orders were made both on Jumia and retail stores across the country surpassing the target by 140%. The phone is now [c]
West Africa’s data centre provider, MDXI and global IXP platform provider, Asteroid have partnered to launch a carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for the region. The West African Internet Exchange (WAF-IX), is based on Asteroid’s [c]
By Robin Njiru Public sector organisations are not immune to the forces that are reshaping organisations and industry sectors around the world. These exponential forces put pressure on public sector organisations to rethink the way [c]
More than 1,000 job opportunities have been floated by Chinese companies operating in Kenya, following the staging of the inaugural Kenya-China Economic and Trade Association (KCETA) Career Fair, held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre [c]
Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison has demonstrated next-generation voice user interface and powerful analytics capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. The only cloud applications built on machine learning, Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications provide a [c]
Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) and Liquid Telecom have signed an agreement to extend affordable internet to Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda. As part of the deal, Liquid Telecom will lease Ketraco’s electricity transmission lines to [c]
ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance Company) recently hosted a two-day insuretech hackathon dubbed “TechMeetInsurance” at the firm’s offices in Nairobi, Kenya, in a bid to automate their internal claims system. The hackathon featured four teams of young innovators [c]
Telkom Kenya, which rebranded from Orange in June last year, is set to send home about 500 employees as part of a restructuring exercise. In statement issued today, the telco – the third largest in [c]
Next week Wednesday marks the end of October. And Wednesday, October 31 also happens to be the day when the world marks Halloween, an annual celebration with both pagan and Christian origins that takes place [c]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade or so, you’re likely to be bored by most of the discussions surrounding immersive technology. It’s not unkind to say that developers have been banging [c]
Okapi Finance Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Gisele Mwepu, has been awarded as Africa’s Most Influential Woman Financial Services. The award ceremony was organized and hosted by CEO Global and held in Accra, Ghana. CEO Global is [c]
Airtel Africa, a UK incorporated subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, has announced that six global investors comprising Warburg Pincus, Temasek, Singtel, SoftBank Group International and others have agreed to invest US $1.25 billion through a primary equity issuance [c]
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield in partnership with Facebook, returns to Africa in 2018, featuring panels and keynotes with high-powered industry leaders such as Omobola Johnson, senior partner at TLcom Capital, and Lexi Novitske of Singularity Investments. [c]
Almost a week after Safaricom increased its voice, SMS, data charges as a response to the various taxes introduced by the government, Airtel Kenya has now followed suit. But unlike Safaricom which increased the costs [c]
Chinedu Valentine Okobi, the youngest brother to Ebele Okobi, Facebook’s policy head for Africa, died in hospital early this month after being assaulted by police in the US. According to an article by the New [c]
West Africa’s full-scale data centre provider MDXI, has attained the Gold Data Centre certification from Microsoft, thus strengthening its position as one of the leading Cloud Services providers in Africa demonstrating “best-in-class” capability to meet [c]
Enterprises in Southern East Africa and Mauritius are rapidly stepping up their efforts to boost customer experience, reports omnichannel customer experience specialist Genesys. Genesys, currently experiencing strong growth in the region, says enterprises in key [c]
Tala, a major consumer lending app in emerging markets, has received a strategic investment from PayPal, a move meant to help Tala bring visibility and access to underserved populations in emerging markets across the globe. [c]
SIM swap fraud has plagued mobile users across Africa for years, with Myriad Connect’s recent survey in Kenya revealing that over 90% of Kenyan banking leaders see it as an issue for their organisations and [c]
Today, Oracle welcomes more than 60,000 customers and partners from 175 countries and 19 million virtual attendees to Oracle OpenWorld 2018, the world’s most innovative cloud technology conference. At the annual event, Oracle founder and [c]
StarLink, a value-added-distributor (VAD) in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region has received two awards: ‘The EMEA Distributor of the Year Award’ and ‘The EMEA Excellence for Training Award’ by Palo Alto Networks [c]
Samsung Electronics is set to take the issue of phone storage a notch higher by launching a device with a total of 1TB in storage with the introduction of the Galaxy Note9 512GB model. The [c]
Nextcloud and Collabora have announced the development and release of deeper integration, setting the stage for easier and more efficient browser-based collaboration for teams who need to create and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more. The improvements allow [c]
Oracle and The World Bee Project have announced a world-first approach to understanding the declines of honey bee populations and helping protect them. The new programme uses cloud technology to better understand honey bees, the [c]
Equitel, Finserve’s telco unit, has recorded double digit growth in both the value and number of mobile money commerce transactions, according to the latest data from the Communications Authority. Equitel processed 87.9 million mobile commerce [c]
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