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Ban Ki-moon launches Big Data Climate Challenge
An innovative competition aimed at stimulating the use of big data to highlight the impacts of climate change has received an overwhelming response from the global scientific community, prompting organizers of the “Big Data Climate Challenge” to announce extension of…
Leadership shuffle announced at MTN
Current Chief Marketing Officer of MTN South Africa, Brian Gouldie, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of one of the operating companies within the MTN Group. The identity of the country is yet to be disclosed. Larry…
557m smartphones in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2019
Ericsson has today revealed the scale of the region’s ongoing data revolution with traffic growth doubling the past year. The June 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Ericsson Mobility Report shows that in 2014 phone users accessed 76,000 TB (terabyte) of data per…
Consolidation in South African Telecom sector
The mobile operator MTN is acquiring a 50 percent stake in one of the top hosting and internet service providers (ISPs) in South Africa, Afrihost. While this deal is still subject to regulatory approvals, it does not come as a…
Airtel launches iPhone 5s in Nigeria
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced a strategic partnership with leading mobile phone maker, Apple, to officially unveil the iPhone 5s in Nigeria. With this announcement, Airtel becomes the first mobile telecommunications services provider in Nigeria to officially seal…
By 2016, 25% of Top 50 Banks will have launched banking app stores
According to a Gartner report, Banking CIOs, CMOs and line of business (LOB) heads face two key challenges. The first is that the visibility of customer banking apps in public stores is decreasing due to the total number of apps…
Apple devices held for ransom
Apple users should be warned as a recent cybercriminal attack has seen users have their phones and tablets held for ransom. Users have been woken with an alarm-like sound and then a message “Your device has been hacked by Oleg…
US$200m for solar development in Cameroon
Joule Africa, the international energy developer behind Cameroon’s proposed 607MW Kpep hydroelectric project, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Cameroon to develop 100MW of new solar PV facilities. The MoU was signed at the…
Airtel deploys next generation data centre in Sierra Leone
Airtel Sierra Leone has ordered a combined data and telecom centre from Flexenclosure, a specialist designer and manufacturer of prefabricated data centres and intelligent power management systems for the ICT industry. In a multi-million dollar deal, Flexenclosure will install its…
Gray market mobile handsets thrive in Kenya
Kenya’s mobile handset market recorded year-on-year volume growth of 21.5% in Q1 2014, according to preliminary figures announced today by International Data Corporation (IDC). While various economic and social factors continued to help push this growth, the positive quarterly performance…
Sage launches Partner Payroll in Tanzania
Sage HR Africa has launched Sage Partner Payroll & HR in Tanzania, bringing Tanzanian start-ups and small businesses a cost-effective, easy to use and flexible payroll solution that will support the growth of their businesses. Sage HR Africa is part…
Kenya: Machine-to-machine communication on the increase
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is gaining acceptance in Kenya as the country increasingly embraces global trends in terms of new technologies. Indeed, Kenya has witnessed increasing uptake of M2M connectivity services across various vertical sectors, according to the recently released results…
Payment systems contribute to Nigeria’s growth
With Nigeria having recently eclipsed South Africa as the continent’s biggest economy, it is worth taking a look the nation’s progress from the perspective of a service which is indispensable to the modern way of life – electronic payments. And…
Lamudi becomes largest real estate platform in Kenya
Lamudi, founded by Africa Internet Holding (AIH), has established itself as Kenya’s leading online real estate platform, recently exceeding 15,000 listings. The site offers Kenyans a wide range of different properties to rent and buy in different parts of Kenya…
Airtel trains youth in Chad, Gabon
Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today reiterated its commitment to further support human capital in African economies across the region through the investment of ICT development and other initiatives.…
South Africa: Entrepreneur broadcasts jobs with BBM
The Dala U Crew (DUC) is helping thousands of young South Africans to find jobs by tapping into the power of the BBM™, a leading mobile messaging platform for private and secure communications. The initiative, brainchild of young Durban businessman…
