Liquid Telecom has announced a partnership with Zindi to support the rollout of its new data science competition platform across Africa. Zindi was launched at the AI Expo Africa in Cape Town, to provide a […]
By Ben Roberts When mobile phones took off more quickly and more widely in Africa than elsewhere, the continent leapt ahead of the western world in mobile adoption. This was driven by its sparse and costly landline […]
By Guido Verweij The whole notion of what today’s hyperconnected travellers want, and what they value, has changed. While cost, choice and convenience are still significant, booking decisions are now based on the experience. Right from […]
Google Kenya hosted the first Web Rangers summit in Africa aimed at spreading awareness about internet safety and promoting responsible digital citizenship on the continent. About 26 Web Rangers from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa are […]
The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit was successfully held in Beijing last week, with over 3,200 participants from China, Africa and international organizations having attended the summit, making it the largest and most high-profile […]
UNAIDS and digital television company StarTimes are set to increase HIV/AIDS awareness among Kenyan youth with mobile online video application. Under the theme of “Value of new media in Africa, HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign” the two […]
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy has announced the four regional winners for their 2018 global economic prize, the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC) in Africa. The winning organizations were selected from 9 IIC […]
Opera and Worldreader, the global nonprofit that believes everyone can be a reader, have announced ahead of the International Literacy Day that African mobile users have spent more than 4 millions hours of reading books […]
By Emily Kinuthia Small market enterprises are an important mix to economic growth and are a key catalyst in improving the living standards of Africans through employment and entrepreneurship in the business value chain. According […]
The claim that cloud computing is radically transforming the way organisations (both big and small) do business, for better, agile and faster results, has become fact. However, there are still numerous scares denting the confidence […]
The news that three Dutch banks as well as the Dutch Taxation Authority were hit earlier this year by targeted distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks holds grave cybersecurity warnings for African businesses of all sizes. […]
Google Search has now made it possible for Swahili users to get more intelligent and contextualised results of people, things and entities that Google already knows about. Swahili is one of the most spoken African […]
DStv Now, the internet-based service with live sports, live TV, shows and movies on Catch Up, is now available via three new lean-back apps. These apps make it possible to turn any TV in the […]
Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank Group (afdb), has made an urgent call to give farmers across the continent new technologies with the potential to transform agricultural production. Adesina said the technology […]
By Geoffrey Shimanyula Africa’s Internet life began as an outpost on the world network. Any Internet user in Nairobi calling up, say, a website in Kampala would trigger a data signal that travelled all the […]
After her Bachelors’ Degree in Mathematics and Statistics at Southern Methodist University, she got a job in the US, working in the country for over 3 years. But unlike those who settle and build both […]
Bharti Airtel has announced its audited consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2018. During the quarter, Bharti Airtel acquired Telenor’s operations in India, meaning that financial and operational parameters of the […]
Temenos, a banking software vendor, has announced that Alexandre (Alex) Menage has been appointed as the firm’s Head of Sales in Africa. Alex brings over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, including […]
Businesses around the world have been deploying an early adopter version of Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service, which becomes generally available today. The service allows organizations to easily build blockchain networks to drive more secure and efficient […]
GEMS Education is a 60-year international and worldwide education with operations in over 20 countries and 300 schools. At GEMS Education, we are Educators first. We are driven by a single purpose ‘To put a […]
In line with its Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, especially its strategy to diversify the economy by making technology an enabler for forex revenue earnings, the Buhari administration would be actively supporting Google’s Next Billion […]
Businesses in Africa are booming, and a significant amount of this growth is attributable to the investment in technology across the continent. World Bank projections indicate that out of 20 high-growth economies in the world, […]
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, the global distributor for engineers was founded as Radiospares, in 1937. The company started as a supplier of parts to the burgeoning radio market that has evolved into a […]
Direct Pay Online has consolidated its payment system across the continent under the new brand name DPO Group to align the group’s African footprint. This announcement follows the company’s accelerated expansion, bringing the total number […]
Last year in March, Truecaller had announced its foray into the digital payments segment in India. This month, the company announced a strategic investment into the payment space by acquiring Chillr, India’s first multi-bank payments […]
The African Development Bank, together with partners – Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook – launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit (#AIS2018) in Kigali, Rwanda. By training youth in demand-driven ICT curriculum […]
Towards the end of May, aspiring software developers met in over 70 locations across Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda for the first meetup of the third phase of the Andela Learning Community. In Kenya alone, participants […]
Liquid Telecom has announced the availability of Microsoft Azure Stack – an extension of an ever-expanding set of cloud services to consistently develop and run hybrid cloud applications – to select African markets. Leveraging its pan-African fibre […]
MultiChoice Africa, the video entertainment services provider, has announced a new pan-African CSR initiative – the MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) – a Film Academy aimed at igniting and growing Africa’s creative industries into vibrant, economic […]
Nesta, on behalf of Feed the Future, has announced that 228 applications were received, mostly from Africa, for the global Fall Armyworm Tech Prize. The Prize aims to find digital solutions to identify, track and […]
Google is offering US $2 million (Kshs 200 million) grant to Kenyan nonprofits and social enterprises that have a compelling technology-based project that can improve society on a local or national scale. The US $2 […]
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