Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced the launch of the Galaxy VL 200-500 kW (400V/480V) 3-phase uninterruptible power supply (UPS), the newest addition to the Galaxy family. [c]
Africa Data Centres (ADC), part of the Liquid Intelligent Technologies (formerly Liquid Telecom Group) has appointed Dan Kwach to the newly-created position of MD for East Africa region. The appointment, a promotion to Kwach, will [c]
AURA, South Africa’s security and medical response platform, has announced its imminent expansion into Kenya which will be led by its new GM, Hilary Itela. Partnering with KK Security, owned by GardaWorld, Aura will offer its [c]
Business Membership Organizations (BMOs) in the East African region are adopting Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software technologies, in a bid to improve service provision to businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This follows a two-day training by the [c]
In an initiative that will see the growth and development of payment services within the East Africa region, digital fintech platform provider, Ukheshe, has announced the conclusion of a new agreement with the Kenya-based lender KCB [c]
Safaricom has been recognized as the best Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) in East Africa by Fortinet, an American cybersecurity corporation. Safaricom emerged top in the category by achieving the fastest and most efficient evaluation, [c]
Powered by Ericsson IoT Accelerator, Telenor Connexion will provide global connectivity to Wayout’s sustainable micro-factories starting in East Africa and expanding into the Middle East, Asia Pacific and other markets in 2021. Wayout has engineered [c]
Sokowatch, the East Africa-based e-commerce platform, has been named as the winner of the recently concluded Visa Everywhere Initiative – Pandemic Challenge in the USA. This year’s initiative was specifically developed to find an immediate [c]
Samsung Electronics East Africa has noted a great increase in the purchase of smart home appliances in the Kenyan market. This can be attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in more people adopting [c]
With the impending regulations on the e-hailing sector now underway, many people are curious to what Uber is doing in markets where it operates to support drivers during the Covid-19 crisis. To respond to the [c]
SMEs in East Africa are using digital transformation initiatives to increase their competitiveness and ensure they are set for growth despite challenging trading conditions. According to Pedro Guerreiro, the MD for Central Africa at SAP, [c]
Facebook has rolled out a new campaign in Eastern African countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia to enlighten people on how to detect potential false news. Now more than ever we are working to [c]
The number of insider-related cybersecurity incidents in East Africa has increased by 55 percent in the last three months as most companies lacking active monitoring of their IT infrastructure transitioned to remote work occasioned by [c]
Liquid Telecom is supporting its Hai home fibre subscribers with unlimited high capacity broadband as more people are forced to work and learn from home or remotely in response to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. Liquid [c]
By Adil Youssefi While much is made of the potential of new technologies like cloud, IoT, AI and Blockchain, their success depends entirely upon ubiquitous connectivity. There can be little doubt that the much-touted Fourth [c]
Airtel recently announced its financial results for the 9-month period ending on December 31, 2019, reporting that its overall customer base in Africa grew by 9.4% to reach 107.1 million. The India-based telco group stated [c]
As the deadline for use of old passports looms this month, the number of Tanzanians applying for electronic passports has drastically increased to an average of 1,200 applications from between 300 and 400 per day. [c]
Kenya-based cloud solutions provider, CloudHop, has entered a new deal with Nasdaq Governance Solutions, a business unit of Nasdaq, to provide its clients in Eastern Africa with access to Nasdaq Boardvantage, a board portal and [c]
Cisco has appointed Sally Kimeu as Country Leader and Regional Manager for its East Africa operations in 10 countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, South Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea. “Cisco has longstanding [c]
Visa has appointed Corine Mbiaketcha as Vice President and Country Manager for Visa in East Africa, effective November 5, 2019. Corine joins Visa from Oracle where she was the Country Leader, Kenya Hub and Managing [c]
Samsung will offer discounted prices and special offers on a variety of products across the various segments as it marks its 50-year anniversary. The products on offer range from Samsung QLED TV’s, fridges, microwaves, mobile [c]
Airtel Africa has announced the appointment of Ian Ferrao as Regional Director of its East Africa business. Ian Ferrao has more than 12 years of experience in senior management telecoms roles in Africa. Prior to joining [c]
Paxful is planning to expand its presence to South Africa after setting up operations in Kenya and East Africa. This will be followed by an Africa-wide recruitment drive with a focus on women. While looking [c]
Integrated ICT services provider, Internet Solutions (IS) has hired Sylvester Mboya, the former Vodafone Global Enterprise, Country Head for East Africa, to spearhead its commercial business unit as the company looks to grow its revenues [c]
Dimension Data, a global technology systems integrator and managed services provider, has entered an alliance with SAP to offer a new set of intelligent enterprise solutions in East Africa. With the alliance, Dimension Data extends [c]
General Electric has announced the appointment of Brenda Mbathi as the CEO for East Africa. In her role, Brenda will play a pivotal role in steering the next phase of strategy and growth for General [c]
Bethwel Opil has been appointed as the Enterprise Sales Manager for Kaspersky Lab in Kenya. The appointment will see Opil continue to support and grow strong market alignment for the Kaspersky Lab brand locally with [c]
Dimension Data East Africa, trading as Dimension Data Solutions, will launch its digital business solutions in East Africa in 2019. Using big data and analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies the firm will start [c]
MultiChoice Africa has announced that the Multichoice Talent Factory Academy in East Africa is officially open. The opening took place at a ceremony at the MultiChoice Kenya headquarters in Nairobi alongside MultiChoice partners, stakeholders and [c]
According to independent research, the Global Business Intelligence & Analytics Market is accelerating at break-neck pace and is poised to grow at around 10.3% in 2019, reaching an estimated value of $27 billion by 2020. [c]
Kenyan engineers, across all disciplines, have a chance of winning Kshs 3.3 million (£25,000) following the opening of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. The competition, an initiative of the Royal Academy of Engineering, is [c]
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