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  • [ August 6, 2022 ] Use of wearables led to rise in physical activity despite pandemic curbs Analysis & Features
  • [ August 6, 2022 ] Kaspersky shares online gaming safety tips for children Analysis & Features
  • [ August 6, 2022 ] KCB to give cash rewards to customers making transactions via alternative channels CSR
  • [ August 5, 2022 ] Global PC shipments post largest year-on-year drop in the second quarter of 2022 Analysis & Features
  • [ August 5, 2022 ] GroupM report highlights consumer attitudes, preferences and behaviours shaping buying decisions Analysis & Features
  • [ August 5, 2022 ] Beacon Power Services raises $2.7 million to expand operations beyond Nigeria and Ghana Analysis & Features
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Migrants continue to make cash remittances despite global inflation – WorldRemit

July 27, 2022 admin 0

WorldRemit has released the results of a survey it conducted in July to understand the impact of the global rise in the cost of living on remittances sent back home by migrants living and working [c]

Analysis & Features

Equity in deal with NALA to enable diaspora remittances from Kenyans in UK and US

July 27, 2022 admin 0

Equity Bank Kenya has signed a partnership with NALA Payments Limited, a remittance payment processing platform licensed in the UK and United States, to facilitate diaspora remittances into Kenya. This partnership will allow Kenyans living [c]

Analysis & Features

Digital Realty, a US-based data centre operator, buys majority stake in Teraco Data Environments

January 4, 2022 admin 0

Teraco Data Environments, a carrier-neutral data centre and interconnection solutions provider in Africa, has announced that Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, has entered into [c]

Analysis & Features

Venture legal firm TLP Advisory expands overseas to support Africa’s rising tech ecosystem

October 29, 2021 admin 0

TLP Advisory, a Nigeria-headquartered legal firm focused on Africa’s tech industry, has announced its expansion into the UK, US and Canada. Having worked with many of the continent’s rising technology companies, including Flutterwave and PiggyVest, [c]

CSR

New Liquid POP to enable direct connectivity for African enterprises to the US

August 28, 2021 admin 0

African businesses and consumers will now be able to benefit from a direct connection to the USA as Liquid Intelligent Technologies opens an Internet Point of Presence (POP) in Miami, connecting to the Liquid network [c]

Analysis & Features

Top Challenges Faced by US Pension Administrators

August 18, 2021 admin 0

Pension administrators have a duty to many Americans to look after and maintain many people’s pensions. However, there are some major challenges that can flag up and make their tasks a little more difficult. Here [c]

CSR

SAS, the analytics and AI solutions vendor, planning for an IPO in 2024

August 2, 2021 admin 0

SAS, the US-based provider of Analytics and AI solutions, has announced its intention to be ready for an initial public offering (IPO) by 2024. Under the leadership of its co-founders, Jim Goodnight and John Sall, [c]

Analysis & Features

Consumer cybersecurity concerns rise amidst pandemic as security practices fall short

July 21, 2021 admin 0

Consumers are increasingly concerned about their online security and imminent attacks according to a new Sophos Home survey, “The State of Consumer Home Cybersecurity 2021”. Forty-five percent of consumers say they’re more at risk of being [c]

Analysis & Features

What You Should Know If You Want to Operate a Company in the US

February 17, 2021 admin 0

Starting a business in a foreign country can be both a rewarding and overwhelming endeavor. Many will try, but only the most devoted will survive. If the Covid-19 pandemic taught us anything, it’s that owning [c]

Analysis & Features

Xiaomi leads the world ‘startup’ and launches to the US market

October 5, 2020 admin 0

Xiaomi not only wants to be the most valued ‘startup’ in the world, as it ended in 2014, but now also wants to dominate the United States market with a new eCommerce website. Through the [c]

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Sokowatch wins global contest seeking solutions for SMEs during Covid-19

October 2, 2020 admin 0

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]

CSR

SAP launches new portal to enable firms hire temporary staff for business continuity

July 28, 2020 admin 0

SAP has announced the launch of its Fieldglass External Talent Marketplace, a simple solution to help organizations quickly find and hire the temporary workers they need to support business continuity. The new solution is available [c]

Analysis & Features

Nigerian socialite Ray Hushpuppi arrested over $35 million Covid-19 internet fraud

June 12, 2020 admin 1

A Dubai-based Nigerian socialite and alleged online scammer, Ray Hushpuppi, has been nabbed by INTERPOL officers. He was reportedly arrested together with his colleague known by the name, Woodberry, in Dubai, UAE. According to media [c]

Analysis & Features

Basic benefits every company should provide to their employees

May 30, 2020 admin 0

While money is certainly important, there’s more to choosing a job than a handsome salary. In today’s world, all the top talents understand this fact very well and they don’t settle for any less. Many [c]

Analysis & Features

Huawei opposes move barring it from using US technology in its products

May 26, 2020 admin 0

Chinese technology vendor Huawei has objected to the US government’s latest decision to bar it from acquiring and using various technologies and solutions developed in the country in the manufacture of its solutions. In a [c]

News

Pfizer and BioNTech begin global Covid-19 vaccine trials in the US

May 11, 2020 admin 0

Pfizer and BioNTech announced today that the first participants have been dosed in the U.S. in the Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the BNT162 vaccine program to prevent COVID-19. The trial is part of a [c]

CSR

SAP, Qualtrics to provide resources to governments to support fight against Covid-19 pandemic

April 29, 2020 admin 0

EY, SAP, and Qualtrics have partnered to provide resources to governments around the world as they battle the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic. These Qualtrics and SAP solutions will be implemented by EY and include tools [c]

CSR

Samsung QLED TVs receive verification from two safety certification institutes

April 27, 2020 admin 0

Samsung Electronics has announced that its QLED 8K and 4K TVs have received “no photobiological LED hazard” verifications from Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a safety science company in the US, and “eye safety” certification from Verband [c]

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54gene receives $15 million in new investment from consortium led by Adjuvant Capital

April 14, 2020 admin 0

54gene, the African genomics research, services, and development company, has closed a Series A round of $15 million, led by Adjuvant Capital, a life sciences fund backed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Novartis, and [c]

CSR

Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator awards $20 million grants to US, UK institutes for clinical trials

April 1, 2020 admin 1

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]

Analysis & Features

CBD market projects for 2020

March 8, 2020 admin 0

As the books close on 2019 and we look ahead to 2020, we start to take stock of the year that was in the CBD market and look ahead to what opportunities the future might [c]

Analysis & Features

Fake Burning Man festival tickets now on sale for a few hundred dollars

February 25, 2020 admin 0

The elusive and wildly popular Burning Man Festival, a weeklong community and art celebration held annually in the Nevada desert, launches its official ticket sales on February 26, 2020. However, Kaspersky experts have uncovered a [c]

Analysis & Features

Huawei overtakes Apple as second-largest smartphone brand in 2019

January 31, 2020 admin 0

The global smartphone market declined 1% year-on-year (YoY) in the 2019 calendar year, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service, marking the first time that the smartphone market has declined for two [c]

CSR

Leonard Ochuro wins 5-day US trip in Mastercard, DTB promo

January 23, 2020 admin 0

Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) and Mastercard have announced the winner of their recent campaign, Who Would You Take. Leonard Ochuro, a 35-year-old businessman in the construction and interior design sector, won the campaign’s grand prize [c]

News

Angola Cables, Nokia trial first direct optical connection between USA and Africa

January 18, 2020 admin 0

Nokia has announced that Angola Cables is trialling Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa. The route provides direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing and greatly simplifies [c]

CSR

2020 TechWomen open for applications till January 15, 2020

January 3, 2020 admin 0

TechWomen, an initiative of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs whose mission is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the US and those of other countries by means [c]

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Oracle announces 3 new government regions in US, plans to have 36 by 2020

December 19, 2019 admin 0

Following closely on its achievement FedRAMP authorization, Oracle has announced three new government regions: Ashburn, Virginia; Phoenix, Arizona; and Chicago, Illinois. These regions have achieved DISA Impact Level 5 provisional authorization (IL5 PATO), providing a [c]

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Huawei files case against FCC decision to bar it from benefiting from Universal Service Fund

December 11, 2019 admin 0

Huawei has launched a legal challenge against the US’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC), seeking the court to overturn what it terms “an unlawful order” passed by the FCC on November 22, 2019. The order bans [c]

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Babatunde Martins, a Nigerian, extradited to US to stand trial over computer fraud

December 11, 2019 admin 0

A Nigerian citizen residing in Accra, Ghana, has been extradited to the US to stand trial for an indictment charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. Assistant Attorney General [c]

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Huawei drops suit against US gov’t after seized equipment is returned to China

September 10, 2019 admin 0

Huawei’s US subsidiary, Huawei Technologies USA, on September 9, 2019 dropped a lawsuit against the US Commerce Department and several other US government agencies that it had filed back in June. The case was originally [c]

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Huawei hires Republican supporter Michael Esposito to help with US lobbying efforts

August 22, 2019 admin 0

Huawei Technologies has brought on board Michael Esposito, the founder and head of Federal Advocates, a Washington, DC-based PR firm, to shore up the Chinese firm’s lobbying efforts with the US government and the Trump [c]

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