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Nigeria: Uber to accept cash payments
According to a report via today.ng, Uber will launch a cash payment experiment in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday January 18, 2016. The report reveals that, in order to pay via cash, Uber app users can now select the cash payment option…
Sony Mobile appoints new country manager for South Africa
Sony Mobile has revealed the appointment of Christian Haghofer as the new Sony Mobile South Africa Country Manager. Christian previously held the position of Sony Mobile Country Manager for Central European Markets which saw him successfully build, grow and lead the cluster…
National Bank & Airtel Kenya ink major pact to expand reach
National Bank of Kenya and Airtel Kenya have announced the opening of their distribution networks to offer each other’s services in a major partnership agreement geared at expanding reach of services. National Bank and Airtel Kenya agents will roll out each…
Virtual reality will have its first billion dollar year in 2016
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited has predicted that virtual reality (VR) will have its first billion dollar year in 2016, with about US$700 million in hardware sales, and the remainder from content. The 15th edition of Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT)…
South Africa: ShowMax and MWEB ink partnership
Back in 2015 Subscription Video On Demand service (SVOD) ShowMax entered into the South African market. At launch, ShowMax revealed that it had a content catalogue that totaled more than 11,000 hours of video content, which included local African content as well…
F5 Networks names new CEO
F5 Networks  has announced that John McAdam, Chairman of the F5 Board of Directors, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. McAdam joined F5 in July 2000, and served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer until…
All-female Nigerian startup takes top prize in Netherlands
DIYlaw.ng, a Nigerian female founded technology company, recently won the Innovating Justice Award for the SME Empowerment Innovation Challenge for East and West Africa – A challenge which was organised by The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL).…
African startups raised funding of USD 185.7m in 2015
According to the Disrupt Africa’s African Tech Startups Funding Report for 2015, 125 tech startups raised funding in 2015 around the African continent, to the tune of US$185,785,500. South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya proved investors’ favoured destinations in 2015; with…
Youth Employment in Middle East and Africa receives a boost
To further promote youth employability in the Middle East and Africa, Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Udemy, a marketplace for online learning and teaching. The MoU commits the parties to share skills-based course offerings available through…
Top 30 Video Games of 2015
2015 was a great year for gaming. Not only have we cleansed the streets of Gotham City as the Caped Crusader in Batman: Arkham Knight, but we have also slain vampires, werewolves, and Rock Trolls in CD Projekt RED’s highly successful…
2016: The Year the Branch Router will R.I.P
2015 will likely be seen as the year when enterprises pushed aside their fears of cloud computing. Over 70 per cent of companies now utilise cloud-based applications and services, according to Gartner and the Harvard Business Review, although these companies…
Cloud traffic in Middle East and Africa to quadruple by 2019
The fifth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2014-2019) forecasts that Middle East and Africa (including South Africa) cloud traffic will more than quadruple by the end of 2019. Additionally, by 2019, 83 percent of all MEA data center traffic will come from…
BlackBerry & Sharecare to accelerate consumer driven healthcare
BlackBerry Limited revealed at CES 2016 a partnership with Sharecare, a digital health and wellness engagement platform, to provide consumers with better and more secure insights into their health. Over 41 million people have shared more than 6 billion data…
What are the main security threats for 2016?
Panda Security has revealed its predictions regarding the main problems that could affect IT security in 2016. The coming year will be filled with threats that could affect private users and small businesses, as well as large corporations… This is according to Panda…
Rapid transformation awaits technology channel in 2016
Against a backdrop of structural change and technological progress, the technology infrastructure channel is about to go through a period of rapid transformation. Philippe Fosse, Vice President of EMEA Channels for EMC, gives his predictions for just what 2016 has…
SAP and Accenture Join Forces
SAP SE and Accenture are joining forces in the core and industry development and go-to-market of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), the next-generation business suite from SAP built on the industry’s most advanced in-memory platform. This unprecedented collaboration…
