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Standard Chartered Bank launches digital bank in Côte d’Ivoire
Standard Chartered Bank has on Friday, 16 March 2018 announced the launch of its digital bank in Côte d’Ivoire. According to the company, this marks the Bank’s first digital bank in Africa and the first-of-its-kind to open in Côte d’Ivoire.…
Internet of Things: Think big, start small
Slowly we have seen an uptake of Internet of Things (IoT) as an enabler of business – especially since the start of 2018. It’s as if business has kicked into high gear. And not only on a global level, but…
Capitalising on new insurance opportunities in East Africa
Consolidation is taking place in the East African insurance market due to rising capital requirements and mergers with international firms that want to gain a foothold in the region. Ashok Shah, Group CEO of APA Apollo examines the opportunities this…
Chemical companies should leverage digital tools to detect shifts in markets
As a key sector of the South African economy, the chemicals industry accounts for about 25% of the nation’s manufacturing sales and is the most developed of its kind in Africa, according to the Chemical and Allied Industries’ Association, an…
Tech and telecom sector in Africa to thrive in 2018 and 2019
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the technology and telecommunication sectors in Africa and the Middle East will more than quadruple in 2018, from 2017. This is according to Baker McKenzie’s Global Transaction Forecast, developed in association with Oxford Economics.…
South Africa gets first-of-its kind ATM pharmacy
An ‘ATM pharmacy’ that gives patients with chronic illnesses their repeat medication has been launched in Alexandra, a township in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday, 15 March 2018. The Pharmacy Dispensing Unit (PDU) is the first of its kind in…
Where WAF fits into the data path
Web application firewalls (WAFs) are an integral component of application protection. They are excellent at protection against the OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) Top 10 and are a go-to solution for addressing zero-day vulnerabilities – but where do…
Mastercard partners with Vconnect to empower Nigerian Startups
Mastercard has partnered with Vconnect to empower Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as part of a shared commitment to drive financial inclusion and literacy in Africa. Nigeria will be the first market to benefit from the partnership, which will be…
Graduate programme aimed at driving open source skills in South Africa
South Africa is a skills-hungry country. In fact, according to Adzuna, the rarest skills are in the digital and technology sectors, where demand is far outstripping supply – and according to SUSE – that is exactly what the industry is…
Unlocking 5G’s revenue potential: A roadmap for operators
The industries’ focus on 5G has shifted from viewing it as a disruptive technology to now embracing it as a central part of their strategy. In its latest 5G-IoT report, unveiled at Mobile World Congress today, Ericsson lays out a…
From the frontier: Predictions for how tech will shape the world in 2018
A lot can happen in a year. And when that year is 2018, a year in which we stand on the threshold of an exponential future driven by technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, IoT and blockchain, the world…
Automation on the back of digitalisation is this year’s biggest trend
The biggest trend in enterprise software in 2018 is automation, due to digitalisation, and it’s causing some difficulty for enterprises that haven’t perceived of a world where software, not employees, is the new customer interface. It’s not difficult for them…
LaLiga launches Virtual LaLiga eSports tournament
McDonald’s Virtual LaLiga eSports touches down in Spain as the first major project from LaLiga eSports. In association with the Professional Videogame League (Liga de Videojuegos Profesional; LVP), Mediapro’s strategic partner in the field of electronic sports, and officially part…
Safaricom awards Ericsson next generation NOC deployment
Safaricom has awarded Ericsson and its partner HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) deployment of its next-generation Network Operations Center (NOC), which is a five-pillar project, supported by Ericsson, to guide the business along its transformational journey. This project is based on…
AFT, SES Networks bring High-speed connectivity to Africa
Atlantique Future Technology (AFT), a provider of wireless connectivity and broadband network services in West and Central Africa, is partnering with SES Networks to bring end-to-end connectivity service to enterprise customers and households in Niger and Burkina Faso. SES Networks’…
Visa launches initiative to foster payment innovation with Startups
Visa has announced the launch of its Visa’s Everywhere Initiative, a global innovation program that tasks start-ups to solve commerce challenges of tomorrow and further enhance their own product propositions and provide visionary solutions for Visa’s vast network of partners,…
