On Wednesday, 17 July 2019, online payment company CASHU and Huobi announced a collaboration that aims to make 'accessing cryptocurrency as easy as buying a Netflix subscription or paying a bill' for millions of people across North Africa.
With thanks to their new partnership, nearly 2.3 million CASHU users can...
Canon announced on Friday, 12 July 2019, the release of two instant camera printers, the Canon Zoemini S and Canon Zoemini C, in the Middle East. The new product range of all-in-one instant camera printers are pocket-sized and aim to encourage creativity with easy to print, peel-and-stick photos on...
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019, Printronix signed an agreement with Tri-Continental to broaden their reseller base and strengthen presence within Central, East and West Africa. Under the agreement, Tri-Continental will distribute Printronix and TallyGenicom line matrix printers as well as its desktops.
Based in West London, Tri-Continental has expanded its...
Spotify has officially introduced Spotify Lite. Lite, according to Spotify, is a small, fast, and simplified version of the main Spotify app. Users will still be able to search and play their favourite songs and artists, save them, share with others, discover new music, and enjoy playlists, but with...
TPV Gulf, the company in charge of AOC and Philips brand of monitors, has announced the appointment of their new distributor, East Asia for Computer Systems, in order to maintain its presence in the Egyptian market. "The ICT sector achieved a growth rate of about 16.4 per cent, the...
Al Maghribia is one of the many channels belonging to the Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision (SNRT) bouquet. This collection of channels runs with 100 per cent Moroccan video programming and production. The content is entirely Moroccan and is available in French, Amazigh and Arabic. Al Maghribia...
Nokia is deploying a cloud-based Subscriber Data Management (SDM) solution that enables Vodafone Egypt to offer services to its 4G customers. The deployment, under the Spring SDM project, helps the service provider to continue transforming its operations around telco cloud technology.
The adoption of Nokia’s Telco Cloud Network Functions Virtualization...
Public voting is now open until April 28 for the 30 African creatives selected to compete at the Digital Lab Africa (DLA) Online Pitch Competition.
The DLA is a springboard and an incubation platform for African creatives in digital content. Initiated by the Embassy of France and French Institute in...
Visa, the global payments technology company and Branch, the most downloaded finance app in Africa, have announced a partnership that will see virtual Visa prepaid debit cards offered to over 2 million consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This partnership represents Visa’s broader strategy to collaborate with and invest in rapidly growing...
Africa must digitise its economies, broaden its tax base, prevent further deterioration of fiscal and debt positions, and aim for double-digit growth to achieve the UN 2030 global goals (SDGs), and the AU Agenda 2063 according to the 2019 Economic Report on Africa released today at the Conference of...
KaiOS Technologies has announced that six new partners in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania will launch mobile phones running on its operating system for smart feature phones, KaiOS. These devices form a new category of phones that combine the affordability of a feature phone with the...
In recent years, education technology has become inextricable from education reform, resulting in a steady increase in edtech startups and private entities innovating in education.
Understanding the realities and complexities of education in Africa, it is imperative that the edtech community interrogate the problems they aim to address, center the...
As we celebrate Safer Internet Day on 5 February, Facebook is joining hands with more than 20 non-profit organisations and government agencies. The campaign aims to raise awareness about Internet safety and security concerns such as cyberbullying and cyber-crime.
Facebook is supporting the Safer Internet Day by:
Sponsoring the printing...
The trend of making payments using mobile wallets installed as applications on smartphones which sometimes makes use of Near Field Communication Technology and generally an internet connection is becoming widespread, and indeed Africa is not left out in the grand scheme of things.
In fact, Africa is embracing this seamless...
CSquared, a pan-African broadband infrastructure provider has spelt out its operational priorities that are destined to shape Africa's digital future and trigger technological advancement that will bootstrap the continent's youth into a digital revolution.
Top among CSquared's priorities is 'Fiberising' Africa through synergizing all the technologies that can enhance the ingenuity...
Across Africa, the download speeds experienced by smartphone users vary greatly, even for countries with similar 4G availability.
While users in South Africa, Morocco, Senegal and Kenya connect to 4G signals on average between 72% and 75% of the time, download speeds vary from just 4.4 Mbps in Senegal to...
