The COVID-19 pandemic has unlocked the growth of e-commerce opportunities, with millions of consumers preferring to shop online. This is according to a recent global survey conducted by MARCO, the Madrid-based communications agency. Dubbed “MARCO [c]
Streaming service Showmax Pro has grown 111% year on year, according to the recent integrated report released by MultiChoice on 10 November 2022. Showmax’s entertainment plan is hot on its heels with paying subscribers growing [c]
LG Electronics (LG) CEO William Cho, emphasized that the company will continue to strengthen its business operations in East Africa, as part of its drive to grow sales and revenues in emerging markets. This comes [c]
MaxAB, the food and grocery B2B e-commerce and distribution platform, serving a network of traditional retailers in Egypt and Morocco, has today announced the close of a $40 million pre-series B equity round to fuel [c]
Ukheshe’s SME in-a-box solution is making tangible changes to the lives of millions in Zambia through a partnership with Digital PayGo, improving financial inclusion and enhancing business dealings for entrepreneurs. Digital PayGo, a local Zambian fintech [c]
Huawei Digital Power has launched a talent development program aimed at upskilling 1,000 practitioners and tertiary students with technical knowledge and skills in the digital power space. The program is initially being rolled out in [c]
By Sky Li With realme’s fourth “828 Fan Festival” coming up on August 28, 2022, we’d like to take a little moment to celebrate the past four years. It feels like just yesterday that we [c]
Bolt, the ride-haling service, has announced it has quadrupled its business since the start of the pandemic, recording its most successful month on record this July. Bolt, which launched two new products since the start [c]
The East African regional real estate sector experienced a positive recovery in 2021 and is continuing with this momentum in 2022. Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Kigali and Kampala, have all witnessed a recovery in demand for office [c]
By Reuben Nguyo In an increasingly omnichannel world in which recent events have accelerated digitalization and adoption of new distribution channels, brands need to ensure their channel strategies are being implemented consistently and maximized across [c]
The beauty industry is a massive and ever-growing industry that is worth billions of dollars. It is made up of companies that make and sell beauty products and services, and it employs millions of people [c]
The GSMA has published its 10th annual ‘State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money’ which states that mobile money adoption and use saw continued growth in 2021, processing a record $1 trillion annually. The industry enjoyed a [c]
By Rajul Malde The election season is in top gear. As expected, promises by politicians on how they will create jobs and re-engineer the economy are now the order of the day. However, there is [c]
After six quarters of growth, HMD Global has announced that its Services business will see significant growth and scale in 2022 with projected one million subscriptions to its suite of services in the first half [c]
The global smartphone market revenue crossed $448 billion in 2021, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor Service. The revenues grew by 7% YoY and 20% QoQ even as component shortages and COVID-19 restrictions continued [c]
You have a great business, and you’ve got a great team. Your staff is capable of handling the entire spectrum of your business – from marketing to accounting – but you’re not going to be [c]
Change is a fact of life. And that’s as true of our professional reality as it is of our personal one. In the face of rampant globalization, increasing digitization, and the rise in remote and [c]
By Rajul Malde On January 7, the 15 per cent reduction in electricity tariffs came into effect as the first part of a presidential directive to cut the cost of power in Kenya by 30 [c]
By Julia Carvalho Over the past 2 years since the Covid-19 pandemic started, Africa’s economy has contracted by 2.1% and regional growth is expected to be muted in 2022 compared to 2021. Economic recovery and growth are top of mind [c]
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region are recognizing digitalization as essential to staying competitive in a transformed business and economic environment. The insight is one of many in [c]
The ICTforAg 2022 Conference will take place virtually from March 9 to 10, 2022, and convene stakeholders from the agri-tech and agri-Food space across Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Sponsored by Feed the Future [c]
Nigeria has moved a step closer to rolling out its Nigeria Startup Bill (NSB) that will further deepen the country’s technology ecosystem and enable a sector on the cusp of exponential growth. The Presidency and [c]
Advancements in technology have benefited numerous industries by providing them with tools and systems to streamline their operations and increase revenue. However, one industry that has taken its time to catch up is the non-profit [c]
Global PC shipments marked their sixth consecutive YoY growth in the third quarter of 2021 with 84.2 million units shipped. The growth was recorded despite the ongoing component shortages and other supply constraints. However, the [c]
Although different sectors were exposed to and impacted in diverging ways to the extensive changes of the COVID-19 pandemic, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) confidence across most sectors is on the rise, according to the [c]
The digital economy, and with it an increasing demand for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) skills identified by the World Economic Forum in 2016, is here. And while there can be no doubt that digital [c]
New research by Mastercard has highlighted the important role of government support in helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) to recover, position for growth, and contribute to economic [c]
Africa is poised for a data centre boom as internet penetration rates rise and the continent begins to play catch-up with other regions. For the time being, Africa accounts for less than 1% of the [c]
By Yaldah Hakim Rashid It’s an understatement to say the global pandemic accelerated the pace of change and altered our lives – from the way we work to the way we interact with others. Many [c]
By Diego Gutierrez Mobile money can drive financial inclusion, growth, and productivity for small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). We know how important SMEs are in providing jobs and contributing to the economies of developing [c]
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) will host its 52nd Plenary Session on “Business Environment, Competitiveness and Economic Growth in Africa” on the June 29, 2020. The sessions will be held virtually where researchers, academics, policy-makers, non-state actors [c]
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