Huawei Corporate Senior VP and Director of the Board Catherine Chen delivered a keynote speech at the online Better World Summit 2020 held recently. According to Chen, telecom regulators across many nations and industries must [c]
Flourish, a global venture capital firm with portfolio investments throughout Africa, has released results of a survey in its global research series —The Digital Hustle: Gig Worker Financial Lives Under Pressure. The report tracks the [c]
M-Net, the MultiChoice Group’s flagship channel on DStv Premium, has acquired the rights from The Walt Disney Company to screen Black Is King across Africa. The film by Beyoncé, is based on the music of [c]
International electronic brand OPPO has picked Laura and Mojo as the brand ambassadors for its OPPO A92 for 12 months. The two talents will be tasked with the amplification of the OPPO A92, breaking it [c]
Listed telco Safaricom has announced the retirement of its long-serving Chairman Nicholas Nganga and the appointment of Michael Joseph as the new Chairman of the Board with effect from August 1, 2020. Michael, who has [c]
StarTimes Media has joined UNESCO’s campaign against fake news on COVID-19 as part of a long term collaboration with the UN Agency charged with the promotion of freedom of expression and access to information. The [c]
Short-form mobile video platform, TikTok, is launching its SkillsUP campaign in an effort to empower the local community with tips on useful digital skills. Tapping on the potential of the platform to captivate the [c]
Pay television operator StarTimes Media has acquired the broadcast rights for the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League that is set to kick off from September 3, 2020. StarTimes has secured UEFA Nations League broadcasting rights as [c]
DPO Group, an online commerce platform in Africa operating across 19 countries, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Network International, an enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA). [c]
VC4A is calling for African startups looking to raise between $150,000 and $1 million. In collaboration with technical partner AWS Activate, and network partners AfriLabs and ABAN, VC4A will be hosting the ‘Venture Showcase – [c]
Trust is at the core of every employer-employee relationship. You trust your people to do their jobs, and they trust you to compensate them for their work. Most of the time, it works. However, there’s [c]
IDEMIA, the global vendor of digital identity solutions, has announced the appointment of Pierre Barrial as the new President and CEO of the Group, replacing Yann Delabrière. Delabrière resumes his previous role as chairman of [c]
Equity has scooped three top awards at this year’s Euromoney Awards for Excellence. The Bank has been awarded Africa’s Best Digital Bank – for the second time in a row, Best Bank in Africa, and Excellence [c]
SAP has announced the launch of its Fieldglass External Talent Marketplace, a simple solution to help organizations quickly find and hire the temporary workers they need to support business continuity. The new solution is available [c]
Business need to be wary of ProLock, a quirky, destructive ransomware with troubling aftershocks. SophosLabs has provided an in-depth look at this ransomware and its unusual file encryption: it skips files smaller than 8,192 bytes, and starts [c]
Safaricom customers can now access a brand new 4G-enabled smartphone by paying as low as Kshs 20 daily for the devices. In a unique partnership with Google and a first in the world, Safaricom will now [c]
In July 2016, the No More Ransom initiative was launched by the Dutch National Police, Europol, McAfee and Kaspersky. Currently, there are 163 partners all over the world. The portal has added 28 tools in the [c]
From the band that brought us the biggest hits of our time, comes a brand-new show about the work that goes behind the making of the music. Sol Family, a new reality show set to [c]
In early June, Microsoft – through its Africa Development Centre (ADC) – announced the launch of Game of Learners (GoL), a multi-week hackathon aimed to spur innovation among Kenya’s university students. The hackathon, which was [c]
SlovakAid, a humanitarian relief program of the Republic of Slovakia, has donated 50,000 diagnostic tests, aimed at alleviating the effects of Covid-19 in Kenya. The humanitarian aid worth about Kshs 27 million, includes 1 PCR [c]
The 2020 Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize competition, a flagship philanthropic program established by the Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI), has shortlisted the top 50 finalists from stage one of the selection process. The [c]
Introduction Do you catch yourself ever wondering how are certain companies so successful at their marketing strategies, or commending their brilliant business strategies? Well, there is a constant that backs these successes and it is [c]
Smartphone sales in China declined 17% year-on-year (YoY) in the second quarter of 2020, according to Counterpoint’s Market Pulse – Monthly Smartphone Sales Tracking service. However, the sales increased by 9% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) indicating some signs of [c]
Power is one of the most important things to consider when building a data centre; the availability of reliable, steady and connected power is a critical element that brings a data centre to life and keeps the critical [c]
Genesys, the cloud customer experience and contact centre solutions vendor, has expanded its Microsoft partnership with a new, native integration. Microsoft Teams and Genesys Cloud, the all-in-one solution and one of the world’s leading public [c]
By Kent McNeill As the African continent continues to evolve with the times, aspects such as the education system play a vital role on how we will expand our knowledge and innovation with the rest [c]
Facebook has released findings from The Impact of Facebook’s Connectivity Initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa report, a study conducted by Analysys Mason that highlights how the social network’s investments in infrastructure and connectivity across the region will [c]
NEC Corporation and SITA have announced a global partnership to develop solutions that enable a secure walk-through travel experience at airports, leveraging NEC’s I:Delight identity management platform together with SITA’s Smart Path and SITA Flex. The partnership [c]
Temenos, the banking software company, has announced that Orange Bank Africa has gone live with its cloud-native Temenos Transact delivered as SaaS. Temenos Transact core banking technology scales to support the bank to launch and [c]
Collabora Productivity, which runs LibreOffice in the cloud, has announced the availability of Collabora Office for Chromebooks, its first native productivity tool for Chrome OS. User control of documents on Chrome OS Chromebooks are popular, [c]
By Opeoluwa Runsewe It is no news that the outbreak and proliferation of Covid-19 have had some of the most acute implications on global economies in recent times; the vast majority of private and public [c]
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