Bharti Enterprises has announced that a UK government consortium led by Bharti has won the bid for OneWeb. The deal will enable OneWeb to complete the construction of a global satellite constellation that will provide [c]
INTERPOL has unearthed a sophisticated fraud scheme which is conducted using compromised emails, advance-payment fraud and money laundering targeting financial institutions and authorities across Germany, Ireland and Netherlands. In mid-March, as a number of countries [c]
The partners in the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator have announced grants of $20 million to three institutions -the University of Washington, University of Oxford, and La Jolla Institute for Immunology – to fund clinical trials in [c]
Open-Xchange, an open source communications software provider, recently released the results of a UK consumer survey conducted by Censuswide. The survey examined attitudes towards major messaging platform providers (that is Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp), as well [c]
The UK government has issued a call for proposals for a Business Innovation Challenge, under its new 4-year Kenya catalytic jobs fund. The Business Innovation Challenge seeks proposals from enterprises which are developing innovative solutions [c]
Travelex, a global foreign exchange and money transfer specialist, has released its study into attitudes towards cash and other payment technologies which focused on one key question: Do we really want a cashless society? The [c]
Huawei Technologies has announced a commitment to the UK with a promise of procurement over the next five years of £3 billion (US $4.17 billion). On February 1, 2018, Sun Yafang, the chairperson of Huawei, [c]
Astellia, a provider of network and subscriber intelligence for mobile operators, has been selected to ensure inflight mobile service availability and quality for AeroMobile, a UK-based mobile service provider for the aviation industry, and subsidiary [c]
A new survey conducted by Juniper Research has found that over 40% of iOS users in the US consider themselves unlikely to use facial recognition as a payment security technology. This suggests that a core use case [c]
American International Group (AIG), IBM and Standard Chartered Bank have announced the successful pilot of the first multinational, “smart contract” based insurance policy using blockchain, a distributed ledger technology. The blockchain solution creates a new [c]
The average annual salary of staff working with databases is currently $83,688, according to data released by Redgate Software following a wide-ranging survey. The survey, carried out on Redgate community site SQLServerCentral, found that the [c]
Large scale datacentre investment opportunities are increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa as key commercial hubs benefit from the critical combination of high quality international backbone infrastructure (subsea cable) connectivity and mushrooming local demand for data, say [c]
Leaders from Africa’s telcos and investment companies including MTN, Orange, Helios Towers, American Tower, Eaton Towers, Google, Microsoft, Liquid Telecom and SEACOM are set to meet with investment bankers, investors and advisers in London on [c]
Ericsson has signed a multi-year contract with the BBC, UK’s public service broadcaster, to provide post-production and media management services for BBC Creative following a competitive tender process. Ericsson will provide a portfolio of end-to-end [c]
New data released this Valentine’s Day by money transfer service WorldRemit shows that Kenyans living in the United Kingdom are the most generous long distance lovers, sending on average US $26 (£21) more than usual [c]
BitPesa has closed a US $2.5 million Series A round to expand its services in UK, continental Europe and further across West and Southern Africa. The round was led by US-based Draper VC with participation [c]
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