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When he first set out from his rural home in Eldoret to seek a job in Nairobi, he’d never heard of the word “e-commerce”, leave alone Jumia. Then due to his knowledge in IT, he’d [c]
If there’s to be an award to recognise those who know Safaricom, both in and out, she’d undoubtedly get it. For she’s with the telco since late 2000, after joining as the Retail Shop Manager, [c]
From an early age, he always had a dream of one day running a business in Africa. And so strong was the feeling that when he turned 18, he’d to share it with his wife [c]
Last year’s Jumia Black Friday sale ran from November 13 to December 13. The commercial event attracted a total of 6,000 vendors, most who sold over 20 times what they normally sell in a given [c]
By Paula Nasser Michael Joseph is a bundle of energy. He’s survived a helicopter crash, been paragliding at the age of 70, and recovered from a life threatening illness in a record time. As he says, [c]
Miss.Africa Digital, a pan-African programme which promotes digital skills for women across the continent, has been named as a finalist for the Equals in Tech Awards, which take place in Geneva, Switzerland next week. ITU News recently [c]
Barbara Sołtysińska is CEO and co-founder of indaHash.com, a global technology platform with offices in London, Berlin, NYC, Warsaw, Johannesburg and Singapore, that connects brands and agencies to over 300,000 digital influencers to create authentic, [c]
Jumia co-founder and CEO Sacha Poignonnec was this week in Nairobi to announce the launch of a new scheme by the online retailer through which suppliers will be given loans to purchase items and later [c]
He was there when ‘Nokia was still Nokia,’ that is when the premier mobile device brand was still owned by the Finnish parent technology firm. He stayed on to steer the brand when it was [c]
For long, since the time I bought a laptop in late 2000’s that is, I used to think – and believe – that ESET was just the free anti-virus software for PCs, nothing else. At [c]
Last month, Maggie Ward went full-time running her own social media management business. Rather than using bots or unethical tactics, she boosts social media engagement by providing a personal touch to potential followers. Her goal [c]
Few people are fortunate enough to join the corporate world immediately after school at the relatively ‘tender’ age of just 19 years. But that’s just what she did, joining Sun Microsytems in 2000 as a [c]
Born and educated in Spain, he moved East to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to explore job opportunities in the mid 1990’s. Luck seems to have been his companion as he later settled while [c]
He’s the force behind TransferTo and a well-known face across the industry, but there’s a lot more to our CEO, Eric Barbier, than meets the eye. Here, we thought we’d do a bit of a Q&A [c]
Most journalists and bloggers met and interacted with her during her time at Nokia when the Finnish firm had almost total control of the country’s – and by extension the region’s – mobile handset market. [c]
Fereshteh Forough faced many challenges while she was studying computer programming, so she started an after-school program for girls aged between 15 – 25 years who wanted to go into the same field to provide a [c]
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