African travellers are thinking mobile now more than ever, according to an independent research study commissioned by Amadeus, a global technology partner for the global travel industry. The Africa travel research study was conducted by [c]
For the past couple of weeks, the Nigerian public has been speculating and trying to guess what #ThePowerOfSharing! Nigerians can heave a sigh of relief as Huawei is launching the Huawei G-Power #ThePowerOfSharing exclusively on [c]
Tagattitude, the innovative French FinTech, has won a Kalahari Award for its digital banking platform, TagPay at the 6th Remittance and Mobile Money Expo, held in Lagos, Nigeria. The award recognizes TagPay as the best [c]
Building on the success of the company’s annual User Group meeting in South Africa, where over 1000 users attending the event held in November last year, CaseWare Africa will be bringing these free to attend User [c]
Gemalto, a global provider of digital security solutions, has been selected to provide its LinqUs Mobile ID platform to MTN Nigeria. This new project, operated for MTN in SaaS mode by Gemalto Allynis Services, marks [c]
Facebook has announced that 16 million people in Nigeria visit Facebook every month with 100 per cent of them coming on mobile. Broken down further, each day, 7.2 million people visit Facebook with 7 million [c]
Ringier is restructuring its international market set-up for the beginning of the new year. On the first of January, Ringier Africa and Asia have implemented various changes further supporting the strong growth of its international [c]
Facebook hosted a roundtable with small and medium sized enterprises from Ghana and Nigeria on Tuesday this week as part of its effort to support entrepreneurship in West Africa. The session focused on how Facebook [c]
Mahindra Comviva, a provider of mobility solutions, and EcoCash – the leading mobile money service provider in Zimbabwe – are the joint winners at the 6th edition of the Kalahari awards. The award is the [c]
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Technology, Adebayo Shittu, recently suspended the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Peter jack, over allegations of illegal employments and procurement at the agency. The minister [c]
Code4Africa has through its impactAFRICA initiative launched what is billed as ‘Africa’s first data-driven investigative journalism initiative’ which is set to give out US $500,000 in grants and technical support for reportage that changes lives. The [c]
MainOne, a telecoms and network services provider in West Africa, has announced that the high capacity Nigerian-Cameroun Submarine Cable System (NCSCS) connecting Lagos, Nigeria and Kribi, Cameroun has been completed and went live last month. [c]
MultiChoice Africa is pleased to announce the addition of Television Continental (TVC) Entertainment, a local content channel based in Lagos, Nigeria, to the DStv platforms on 15 December 2015. The channel will be available on [c]
Cloud computing uptake is experiencing an upward trend in Africa’s major economies, as businesses gain confidence in both the security and reliability of the Cloud, according to the “Cloud in Africa: Reality Check 2013” research [c]
The African Insurance Organisation has long warned that lack of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure is holding the African insurance market back. The additional challenge of getting legacy systems to provide improved risk management [c]
Students and teachers from three African countries – Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria – are set to benefit from Intel’s Explore and Learn online platform, one-stop-shop for digital education content. Through the platform – already [c]
Samsung maybe the leading smartphone brand in Africa- with 30 per cent of personal smartphone owners having one – but when the purchase decision is left to the company or employers to make, they chose [c]
Airtel Africa and British Council have partnered to maximize the learning benefits of Airtel’s wider broadband connectivity of 5GB per month in a 3-year deal for 127 Digital Hubs located in schools across 9 [c]
Demo Africa, the launch pad for emerging technologies and trends, has announced the top 40 startups that will launch at the 2nd annual DEMO Africa event in October. The finalists were picked from a record [c]
A record 300 technology start-ups from 24 African countries have applied to launch at DEMO Africa Conference, the first Pan-African launch pad for emerging technologies and trends, to be held in Nairobi in October. Harry [c]
Fina Bank Kenya has joined the PesaPoint ATM network, thereby opening up the Bank’s ATMs for use by card holders of more than 30 banks who are PesaPoint partners in Kenya. Fina Bank becomes [c]
New service delivery facilities to better support partners in delivering superior network performance Strengthening existing competence and delivery capabilities through structured training, competence transfer and graduate recruitment Initial focus on managed services to be expanded [c]
Program aims to share knowledge, increase collaboration and trade between 10 African countries and Sweden in order to strengthen the African ICT sector High-level Swedish delegations to visit Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Angola, Nigeria, South Africa, [c]
Nokia Life, Nokia Xpress Browser and Nokia Store Operator Billing for Airtel Subscribers Nokia and Airtel have announced a partnership agreement across Africa to drive closer collaboration and deliver increased consumer value. The agreement, which [c]
Nokia has announced that Nokia Life, its popular mobile services for high growth markets, will launch in Kenya. Continuing on its path to connect ‘the next billion and beyond’, Nokia Life services will be available [c]
Huawei has announced the extension of its ‘Ascend to New Heights’ holiday consumer promotion campaign in order to provide more opportunities for global audiences to win prizes, while engaging with the Huawei device brand. Developed [c]
Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa – with over 150 million people – has emerged among the top 20 countries in the world with highest number of internet users according to the current Internet [c]
China’s Huawei Technologies has been selected by Nigeria to deploy West Africa’s first long-term evolution (LTE) commercial network for ZODA FONES, Nigeria’s leading telecoms operator. ZODA FONES has adopting Huawei’s SingleRAN LTE solution, a network [c]
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