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Apple and Google’s feud continues
Earlier this week, Apple disabled Facebook and Google’s internal applications after privacy violations were revealed, leaving Google and Facebook employees at a standstill for key operations. However, on Thursday, February 7, Apple widened its privacy feud with tech giants, blocking…
IFAD propels inclusive rural economic growth in Togo
Over 50,000 vulnerable rural households in Togo will benefit from a US$35 million project that aims to spur inclusive rural economic growth and create employment opportunities in rural areas through a value chains approach, according to the details of a…
FirstBank and Azuri to deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria
Azuri Technologies, a pay-as-you-go solar technology company, and First Bank of Nigeria Limited announced a partnership that will help deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria. Under the partnership, Azuri’s solar home TV product will be co-branded and co-marketed by FirstBank and…
The challenges and future of e-commerce in Africa
At present, e-business in Africa remains a challenge. It may be better than it ever has been, but the truth is that lower literacy and internet penetration levels continue to limit the growth on the continent. However, this will not…
SONA 2019: Government to introduce new tech subjects in schools
On Thursday, 07 February, the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his second State of the Nation Address. During his speech, the president announced that the government will introduce new technology subjects in schools. On the technology side of things,…
Rwanda invests in first smartphone factory
In October 2018, Rwanda-based technology company Mara Corporation said it was investing $100 million in South Africa to make affordable, high tech smartphones. Mara founder Ashish Thakkar noted that the African continent currently had over 400 million smartphones in use,…
South Korea wants to partner on African tech
In partnership with the African Development Bank, Korea is ready to step up technology transfers to Africa. Speaking at a meeting on potential technology partnerships between Korea and Africa, representatives of Busan Metropolitan City, Busan Techno Park, and Korea’s Green…
South Africa: Fundi opens flagship store in Johannesburg
Finance and education fund management solutions company, Fundi opened a new flagship store in Johannesburg on Thursday, 07 February. Featuring the latest edu-tech solutions, the store will bring the brand critically closer to learners, students, academics and strategic stakeholders in…
Google launches Web Rangers in partnership with Kenyan scouts
Google has supported the Kenya Scouts Association to hold the 2019 edition of Web Rangers, a youth programme for online safety, to mark Safer Internet Day. The scheme has been run in over fifteen countries and was launched in Kenya…
More organisations to adopt mobile-centric biometric authentication by 2022
Gartner has predicted that by 2022, 70 per cent of organisations using biometric authentication for workforce access will implement it via smartphone apps, regardless of the endpoint device being used. In 2018, this figure was fewer than 5 per cent. Lower costs…
Top 5 Industries to benefit from AI
The mention of the words Artificial Intelligence (AI) conjures up science fiction-like images in the minds of many people, but it is becoming a very real part of day to day life without us even realising it. AI is and…
SAP Africa appoints MD for new Central Africa region
SAP Africa has announced the appointment of the Managing Director for a newly-formed Central African region. SAP veteran and respected business leader Pedro Guerreiro, who was appointed as managing director for Lusophone Africa in 2015 and West Africa in 2017,…
WhatsApp bans 2 millon fake accounts per month
Social media platform, WhatsApp bans about two million accounts per month from its messaging platform. According to the company, three-quarters of problematic accounts are identified without user report or human intervention, 20 percent of them at the time of registration.…
Lava Technologies expands to Nigeria
Indian mobile phone manufacturer Lava Technologies announced that it is expanding its global reach by entering the Nigerian market. In January, the smartphone manufacturer launched operations in Ghana. In a statement, the company stated that they have brought “Z” and…
Ghana gets affordable Wifi services
Vodafone Ghana has partnered with Facebook to deploy Express Wifi in residential areas. Express Wi-Fi aims to reduce barriers to connectivity such as limited infrastructure and high data costs, giving more people, such as small business entrepreneurs and developers, the…
South Africa sees the return of Global Legal Hackathon
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) and global law firm Baker McKenzie announced that Global Legal Hackathon is returning to South Africa this February. Global Legal Hackathon is an annual event through which lawyers, technologists and civil society…
