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The Ethiopian government, through the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), has formally kicked off the process of implementing the Hone of Africa country’s national digital payment strategy. According to media reports, the strategy has been [c]
The 28-year-old Kenyan sprinter Mark Otieno is hoping to shine in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics which kicks off today – Friday July 23, 2021, in Japan. Otieno who is representing Kenya alongside Ferdinand Omanyala in [c]
Equatorial Guinea is set to host the annual TEG Campus event from July 22 to 27. The event, being held for the fourth year, will bring together African players in the world of technology. The [c]
A number of investigations have been generated following an INTERPOL Victim Identification Task Force gathering specialized officers from 11 Asia Pacific countries, in a targeted effort to identify victims and offenders depicted in child sexual [c]
Kenya’s FIA rally stars Hamza Anwar, McRae Kimathi and Jeremy Wahome have expressed confidence ahead of the 3rd round of the African Rally Championship that kicks off on Friday 23 July to Sunday 25 July [c]
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and Speak Up Africa (SUA) will exclusively announce the final three winners of the first Africa Young Innovators for Health Award. The announcement will take place during [c]
Inviting the world to ‘Meet Visa,‘ the global payments technology company has unveiled the initial phase of its brand evolution spotlighting the diverse capabilities of its network and commitment to enabling global economic inclusion. Aligned [c]
Following the conclusion of the open call auditions in May 2021, all is now set for the premiere of the sixth season of Africa’s biggest reality TV show, Big Brother Naija, this July. For its [c]
Huawei has signed a partnership with the Ministry of Education’s State Department for Vocational and Technical Training to collaborate to enhance ICT development within technical education and training. The MoU will see institutions from across [c]
Entertainment, media, and advertising companies in Kenya are set to reap from rising spending even as traditional components of the sector such as television decline, a new report by PwC shows. In the report titled [c]
54gene, the health technology company centered on advancing the field of African genomics to unlock scientific discoveries as well as improve diagnostic and treatment outcomes within Africa and the global community, is creating a trust [c]
A Kenyan IT company, Cloud Productivity Solutions, was among 9 African companies that were feted at this year’s Microsoft Partner Awards event. The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards acknowledge outstanding achievements and innovations from [c]
Huawei Mobile Kenya has announced the newest member of its HUAWEI Band series, HUAWEI Band 6 that will be retailing at Kshs 6,999. With consumers increasingly demanding more from their wearable devices, the new HUAWEI [c]
SuperSport viewers on DStv and GOtv can look forward to the world’s biggest and most diverse celebration of sport, the Summer Olympic Games, which will run from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, [c]
Online jobs platform BrighterMonday Kenya marks 15 years in Kenya, helping over 40,000 businesses hire the right way and millions of job seekers in the country secure employment. Firming its position as a market leader [c]
Adrian Kenya, an engineering company that provides technology and infrastructure solutions with operations in Telecoms, ICT and Energy sectors, has held a groundbreaking ceremony to officially launch the Fibre Infrastructure Relocation project along the Nairobi [c]
LG Electronics (LG) has made public its commitment to transition completely to renewable energy by 2050 as a key component of its sustainability strategy. The announcement contained in the just released LG Electronics Sustainability Report echoes its earlier [c]
When your day job ends, it’s time to work on your side hustle or passion project. What if we told you that you could turn that venture into a full-time job? Many people don’t think [c]
The sixth edition of the sub-Sahara Spectrum Management Conference kicked off this week with regulators, experts, and other industry players looking for the African common stand on spectrum management. As more and more of the African [c]
Staying connected and productive through the pandemic. For some, this is a goal, and for others’ an impossible challenge. Dozens of new challenges have been terrorizing everyone’s productivity ever since the Covid spread. Despite these [c]
South African consumers are heading online in greater numbers as the e-commerce shopping experience increasingly offers more choice and convenience than can be found at traditional big-brand, brick-and-mortar retailers, says Mike Farquharson, the MD of [c]
Huawei Mobile Kenya on July 5 announced that it would be launching the Huawei Band 6 in the market, with the unveiling coming at a time when there is a huge demand for wearable devices [c]
During the pandemic, Kaspersky alone recorded more than 5,000 fraudulent sites globally related to the Coronavirus. During this period, the company also prevented more than one million users’ attempts to visit these sites, according to [c]
OPPO and its subsidiaries (encompassing the OPPO, OnePlus and realme brands) captured second spot in the global smartphone market during May 2021 with a 16% share of unit sales, followed by Apple at 15%, according to Counterpoint Research’s May Monthly Market [c]
Consumers are increasingly concerned about their online security and imminent attacks according to a new Sophos Home survey, “The State of Consumer Home Cybersecurity 2021”. Forty-five percent of consumers say they’re more at risk of being [c]
The cybersecurity aspects of space travel and the threat that compromised infrastructure could pose to human exploration of space are looked at in detail in a new Kaspersky and Zayed University report, ‘Cyber threat profile [c]
With the number and impact of cyber attacks continuing to increase rapidly, BT has announced a multi-million pound investment in Safe Security, a cyber risk management firm. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the firm’s SAFE (Security [c]
July is National Savings Month, a campaign initiated by the South African Savings Institute (SASI) to encourage South Africans to focus on alternative savings solutions. The nationwide Covid-19 lockdowns this past year dealt a hard [c]
The Government of Rwanda, through the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), has partnered with Tek Experts, a global provider of deep technical IT support services and professional services, to set up a technology support center in [c]
By Ian Thomas Disrupting operations at manufacturing plants is a potentially lucrative path for threat actors specializing in ransomware. This article discusses the current state of ransomware in the manufacturing sector by focusing on the [c]
The number of cyber threat incidents detected in the country reduced by almost half in the three months to March 2021. This even as online impersonation cases formed the bulk of cases reported for investigation, [c]
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