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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]
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]
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]
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]
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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]
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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]
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]
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]
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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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