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Cisco sees silver lining in cloud take up in Africa
An ICT research analyst from Frost & Sullivan has reiterated the strategic importance of a projected increase in cloud computing in key markets throughout Africa to global networking company Cisco. Cisco released its Q2 2014 results yesterday. Cisco reported second quarter revenue…
African ecommerce platform goes Dutch for growth
West African mobile social and classified platform MoboFree has leveraged off growth funding from Netherlands-based eVentures Africa Fund to expand its local presence in Lagos and Accra, establish new offices in East Africa and invest in marketing. ‘To build and…
Huawei shipped a third of global smartphones
Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, was ranked third in global smartphone shipments in 2013, according to leading market research firms International Data Corporation (IDC), Strategy Analytics and Canalys. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone…
Booking his place in Kenya’s ICT history – Tonee Ndungu
Kenya has been described as an economic powerhouse in East Africa. The African Development Bank projected that economic growth for the country would reach 4.5% in 2013 and 5.2% in 2014. However, skilled labour is crucial in order to sustain this…
MTN Business means business with new brand campaign
MTN Business has introduced its new brand positioning campaign to the South African market. The ‘Welcome to the New World of Business’ campaign which features across multiple media channels, including television, digital and print was launched to the wider African…
Gathering in Ghana to tackle rising internet costs
Today in Accra, the world’s broadest technology sector coalition, the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), will host an interactive forum focused on driving down the cost of internet access in Ghana. The meeting – A4AI’s first in-country engagement – will…
PPC first in SA to implement SAP Fiori
Leading supplier of cement in Southern Africa, PPC Ltd, is the first company in South Africa to integrate SAP® Fiori™ into its operations from a functional implementation point of view. This implementation took the company an astonishing two weeks from the…
Nigeria, IBM map out country’s path to tech development
The Ministry of Communication Technology (MoCT) and IBM are collaborating to enable technology driven solutions that will resolve identified challenges in key sectors of the Nigerian economy. In order to kickstart this process, the MoCT today coordinated a Ministerial…
BMW, SAP launch competence hub in South Africa
The BMW Group has officially opened a BMW SAP Competence Hub in South Africa. Together with two other IT hubs, situated in the United States and India, the BMW SAP Competence Hub will render IT services worldwide, concentrating specifically on…
Alcatel-Lucent sees 8.8% growth in revenue
Alcatel-Lucent today announced its fourth quarter 2013 results, reporting revenues of Euro 3,930 million, flat year-on-year at constant exchange rate. Revenues for the Core Networking and Access segments were up 0.4% year-on-year at constant exchange rates. Sequentially, at constant exchange…
What does IBM’s $100 million Project Lucy really mean for Africa?
IBM has launched a 10-year initiative to bring Watson and other cognitive systems to Africa in a bid to fuel development and spur business opportunities. Dubbed “Project Lucy” after the earliest known human ancestor, IBM will invest US$100 million in…
South Africa: Microsoft warns of local phone scam
Microsoft South Africa is once again warning local consumers to be cautious of a reoccurring phone scam, which has left the wallets of unsuspecting consumers hundreds and in some instances thousands of Rands lighter. Cybercriminals and scammers make use of…
Top 10 African countries on Facebook
Mega-social network Facebook celebrates their 10th birthday this week, and what started as a college social networking website in 2004, has mushroomed into the world’s largest online destination to connect with friends, family and acquaintances. “When I reflect on the…
Who is Microsoft’s Satya Nadella?
Announcing his departure as CEO of Microsoft about a year ago, Steven Ballmer finally stepped aside on Tuesday. In his place, the company announced that, after a long and much-speculated candidate list, Satya Nadella would be taking over the helm…
New 1,000 km undersea cable system links up Libya
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a turnkey contract with the Libyan International Telecommunication Company (LITC) to build a new 1,000 km undersea cable system linking the country’s capital, Tripoli, to Benghazi, and providing the broadband connectivity needed in support of ongoing efforts…
dotAfrica domain available in September 2014
The general availability of the dotAfrica (.africa) Top Level Domain (TLD) is expected to commence in September 2014, following the expiry of the Sunrise and Land Rush periods which are scheduled to commence in May 2014. That’s according to Neil…
