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BUSINESS
Fraud in the banking industry: What are banks doing about it?
Chances are you have at least received a call once or twice from people claiming to be representatives from your…
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BUSINESS
Airtel Customers Will Soon Acquire Samsung Smartphones Under Flexible Financing Plans
Airtel Africa has partnered with South Korean device maker, Samsung, and Mastercard to provide customers will smartphones on flexible payment…
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CLOUD
[Column] Francis Wainaina: Africa, Kenya and the Cloud – The Numbers You Need to Know
As a unified online platform for communication and collaboration, the cloud is now widely considered to be one of the…
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CYBER SECURITY
Google Announces Initiative to Solve Security Issues in non-Pixel Phones
In the past three years or so, Google has ramped up Android updates and security patches to third-party vendors. The…
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Kenya’s e-commerce Startup Sokowatch wins ‘Visa Everywhere Initiative’ 2020 competition
Nairobi-based e-commerce startup Sokowatch has been named winner of the recently concluded Visa Everywhere Initiative – Pandemic Challenge. This year’s initiative was…
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Mastercard study highlights the digital divide that needs to be addressed to power gig economy growth in East Africa
Mastercard has released a white paper revealing how gig work across East Africa is helping to drive economic growth by…
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Orange launches a new $30 4G smartphone in Africa
Orange has announced the Sanza touch – an exclusive Orange 4G Android (Go edition) smartphone for the African market. The…
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Huawei drives 100 typical scenario-based solutions built on robust partnership
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2020, Mr. Peng Zhongyang, Board Member, President of Enterprise BG, Huawei, delivered a keynote speech on the…
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BUSINESS
Jumia launches Brands Festival Campaign to make quality products more affordable
Jumia Kenya has launched Brand Festival, a new campaign to make quality products more affordable for its customers. The e-commerce…
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Facebook To Open New Offices in Lagos, Nigeria
Facebook is setting up shop in Lagos, Nigeria. The new office is the company’s second in the African continent but…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Tonny Tugee: Education and cloud technology in Kenya – the key to a competitive edge
A fundamental building block in ensuring the success of not only a country, but each citizen, is education. Our journey…
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WomenInTech
Visa and She Leads Africa partner to empower female entrepreneurs on the continent
Visa has announced a new partnership with She Leads Africa to connect female entrepreneurs with information and tools they need to…
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News
Microsoft partners with AGRA to support digital transformation in agriculture
Microsoft has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to…
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CLOUD
Local, specialist expertise critical to greater Cloud uptake
While South Africa and the rest of the continent are slightly behind the Cloud curve, Andrew Cruise, managing director of…
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Startups
Two Tanzanian agritech startups win US$100,000 Generation Africa GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize for 2020
Generation Africa has announced the two grand prize winners of the US$100,000 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize for 2020. The winners were…
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Top Kenyan ICT students compete to represent Sub Saharan Africa in Huawei’s Global ICT Competition
The Sub-Sahara African finals of the Huawei Global ICT Competition, under the theme of “Connection, Glory, Future”, kicked off on…
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This startup discovery and analytics platform helps you gain insight into the African Startup Ecosystem
Startuplist Africa is a data-driven platform that helps you discover and gain insight into the African Startup Ecosystem by providing…
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BUSINESS
Kenya TradeNet System User Acceptance Testing set to commence
In December 2019, KenTrade commenced upgrading the Single Window System (Kenya TradeNet System) to enhance system productivity, avoid technological obsolescence…
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Huawei Lighting up its office building for the UN International Day to Protect Education from Attack
Huawei has partnered with Education for All Foundation, UNCESCO and UNICEF on raising social awareness on the importance of safeguard…
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BUSINESS
M-PESA is Now Available via USSD by Dialing *334#
Safaricom has rolled out a new USSD for accessing M-Pesa services. By dialing *334#, M-Pesa customers will now be able…
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WomenInTech
Visa Appoints Eva Ngigi New Country Manager for Kenya
Visa has appointed Eva Ngigi-Sarwari as its new Country Manager for Kenya. Eva Ngigi will serve as the Senior Business…
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CLOUD
[Column] Francis Wainaina: Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing in Kenya
The topic of cloud computing has been doing the rounds for quite some time now, and businesses have been flooded…
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CYBER SECURITY
Liquid Telecom unveils Cyber Security unit for its customers
Liquid Telecom has today unveiled its Cybersecurity unit which offers end-to-end managed services for digital security solutions. The offering is…
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Startups
Early investors in fourth industrial revolution startups set to reap rewards
Early investors in startups with exposure to the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) are benefiting from significant revenue growth despite the…
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News
African banks must embrace mobile payments to unlock new business prospects
African banks must provide mobile payments and other digital services to remain competitive as well as to unlock new business…
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Gadgets
Cheap Smartphones Available in Kenya with FHD+ 90Hz Displays
Smartphones are getting better and better, especially in the midrange category. This is true, thanks to trickling down of yesterday’s…
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Featured
realme 6 Review: Some good value for money
Realme 6 Review: Realme finally entered the Kenyan market. The company, one of the fastest-growing smartphone brands in the world…
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INSURANCE
Allianz Africa announces leadership and structural changes at Allianz Nigeria
Allianz Africa has announced leadership and structural changes at Allianz Nigeria. These changes are subject to the approvals of the…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Amrote Abdella: How investing in digital infrastructure can make the difference to Africa’s economic recovery
Africa faces many challenges on its path to becoming a global economic competitor. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on…
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BUSINESS
StarTimes grows its e-shopping platform product range
Pay Television Company StarTimes Kenya has introduced additional consumer products on its integrated e-shopping platform StarTimes GO. StarTimes GO which…
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News
Bolt launches its Bolt Lite ride category in Nakuru and Kisumu
Bolt has launched its affordable ride option dubbed Bolt Lite in Nakuru and Kisumu targeting passengers seeking low budget travel. …
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[Kenya] Manufactures Urged To Go Digital To Survive COVID-19 Pandemic
Kenyan manufacturers have been urged to embrace and adopt emerging technologies during this Covid- 19 Pandemic to remain in business…
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BUSINESS
East African SMEs accelerate their growth with cloud deployments
SMEs in the East African region are using digital transformation initiatives to increase their competitiveness and ensure they are set…
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News
ATU and Huawei launch competition to support African innovators building solutions to combat COVID-19
The Africa Telecommunication Union (ATU) has launched a new competition to identify and support young African innovators helping combat COVID-19.…
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BUSINESS
Telkom Kenya Restructuring its Business after Merger Fallout With Airtel
Telkom Kenya is restructuring its business after the unexpected fallout of its merger plans with Airtel Kenya. Announcing the company’s…
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News
Safaricom Offers Customers ‘Free 500MB’ through ‘Browse Bila Waas’ Campaign
Safaricom is offering free 500MB to its customers in a newly announced promotion called ‘Browse Bila Waas’. The product offers…
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PAIX Data Centres enters The Kenyan market
PAIX Data Centres (“PAIX”), a Pan-African provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral colocation data centre services has entered the Kenyan market.…
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Featured
Huawei launches a technology lecture series for University lecturers and students in Kenya
Huawei Kenya has today launched UniTech Talk, a regular lecture series for University lecturers, students and tech enthusiasts to share…
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Startups
Agritech startup, Hello Tractor, joins Mastercard Accelerate Programme
Mastercard has announced the expansion of its Accelerate fintech portfolio, adding dynamic entrepreneurs to its award-winning startup engagement program Start Path and more technology…
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Startups
Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2020 Winners Announced
Ecobank has announced the winners of its 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge. The winners were announced after an exciting virtual event…
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Blockchain
Paxful Empowers Women In Kenya And Around The World To Boldly Venture Into Crypto Entrepreneurship
Women are becoming catalysts of crypto entrepreneurship in Kenya and the rest of the world. Since 2019, the number of…
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News
Huawei opens applications for its Seeds for the Future Sky program for Kenyan youths
Huawei Kenya has opened applications for its Seeds for the Future Sky program for University undergraduates undertaking ICT related degrees…
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Gadgets
A Closer Look at ZTE’s Upcoming Under-display Camera Smartphone
ZTE is launching a phone with an under-display camera next month. The phone, ZTE Axon 20 5G, if available commercially,…
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News
[Interview] Covid-19 pandemic made us more innovative, Ola Akinnusi, Bolt Country Manager says
Just like in many other sectors, the coronavirus pandemic has adversely affected the cab-hailing industry across the global markets. In…
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Startups
UNDP and Hackster announce winners of COVID 19 Detect and Protect Challenge
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Hackster.io, have announced 10 grand prize winners today of the COVID-19 Detect and…
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Startups
Seed stage investing and why it matters for Africa’s startup and innovation community
Startup entrepreneurs are working to harness Africa’s potential. Together they represent a critical pipeline of innovation that is driving high…
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Startups
Founder Institute Startup Accelerator Opens Applications in Kenya for the First Time
The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, has opened its accelerator program in Nairobi, Kenya. This is the…
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Gadgets
The World’s First Phone with an Under-display Camera Launching Next Month
Chinese smartphone companies are well known for chasing “world’s first” titles. They are often seen chasing to be top companies…
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Gadgets
For Ksh.23,000, the Nokia 5.3 is a good buy
The Nokia 5.3 is available for purchase in Kenya for Ksh.23,000. HMD Global launched this device in June this year…
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News
Blockchain breakthroughs in Africa signal enterprise adoption readiness
Technological breakthroughs such as blockchains and distributed ledger technologies are digital infrastructures that enable innovation. Businesses across the globe are…
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Startups
South African fintech startup Ukheshe among finalist of Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2020
South Africa’s SMME digital banking platform provider, Ukheshe, is among the finalist in the Ecobank Group’s 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge. In its third…
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News
Presidential Digital Talent Programme Award Winners announced
The ICT Authority has announced the winners of the Presidential Digital Talent Programme (PDTP). The Authority hosted a virtual graduation…
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News
Nokia Phone Maker HMD Global raises $230 million funding from Google, Qualcomm and Nokia
HMD Global, the company behind new Nokia phones, has secured $230 million in new funding from its strategic investor partners…
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BUSINESS
Equity Completes KSh.10.2 billion Acquisition of majority stake in Congolese Bank
Equity Group has completed its acquisition of 66.53% stake in the Banque Commerciale Du Congo (BCDC) at a cost of…
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Startups
Here are the startup finalists of the 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge
Ecobank Group has announced the finalists of its 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge. The challenge, in its third edition, is designed…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Chester Wisniewski: Why ransomware is just not a passing fad
We are only 5 weeks away from the anniversary of the birth of modern ransomware, Sept. 5, 2013. I mark…
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News
LG has opened a ThinQ Experience Zone at the Sarit Centre
LG Electronics has today launched its LG ThinQ Experience Zone in Kenya. The brand shop located at Sarit Centre has…
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Startups
British startup Planet Smart City partners with UN-Habitat on slum upgrading initiatives in Mathare and Kibera
Planet Smart City, the British startup revolutionizing smart affordable housing has announced a new partnership with UN-Habitat. Together, they will…
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BUSINESS
Hotpoint Opens its Largest Outlet In East Africa At Sarit
Hotpoint Appliances Ltd has today opened its new and revamped flagship outlet at Sarit Centre. This according to the premier…
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Gadgets
Realme Smartphone Brand Launches in Kenya
Realme, which is for sure one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone brands is now available in Kenya. The company’s entrance…
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News
Michael Joseph appointed new Safaricom board chairman
Michael Joseph has been appointed as the next Chairman of Safaricom’s Board of Directors. He was appointed following the retirement of…
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News
Africa’s online commerce platform DPO Group is being acquired by Network International
DPO Group (DPO), one of the leading, high-growth online commerce platforms in Africa has announced that it is being acquired…
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News
Why AI is the next best thing for customer experience management
While an omnichannel approach has become the norm across most industries, forward-looking businesses are considering the next level to gain…
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News
Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative selects Top 50 Finalists of 2020 “Africa’s Business Heroes” Competition
Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative has selected the top 50 finalists of 2020 “Africa’s Business Heroes” Competition. The…
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News
This New Online Course from Harvard Teaches Africans How to Build Scalable Businesses to Solve African Problems
Africa has complex and unique business opportunities. Harvard Business School professors are launching a new online course to teach entrepreneurs…
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News
Huawei conducts 5G technology training for university students in Kenya
Today Huawei Kenya concluded 6 days of 5G training online for over 240 university students from 13 Universities around the…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Soromfe Uzomah: How global disruption can have local implications
The global impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had not only on public health, but on business, cannot be underestimated.…
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BUSINESS
Equity Bank Receives $50 Million Loan from IFC to support Kenyan SMEs affected by COVID-19
IFC has announced a $50 million loan to Equity Bank Kenya to support local SMEs especially those facing COVID-19 related…
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BUSINESS
Kenya Association of Manufacturers is piloting a Circular Economy programme with SMEs in Ruaraka
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) is piloting a Circular Economy programme for local SMEs with Denmark in Ruaraka, Nairobi.…
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BUSINESS
Kenya’s Economy Set to Slow as Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Take Hold, Report
The Kenyan credit market is coming under severe pressure as the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the Kenyan economy. According to the…
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Full Time
Digital Skills Trainer – Kakuma
The NRC East Africa & Yemen mission is an expanding programme. NRC started its operations in Kenya in the refugee…
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TRENDING
Building the 5G future on an LTE foundation
The latest report from GSA shows, by the end of May 2020, 386 operators globally had announced they were investing…
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New Appointments
SAP Names Claudio Muruzabal Regional President of Africa
SAP has appointed Claudio Muruzabal as the new President for SAP’s EMEA south region that comprises Southern Europe, the Middle…
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WomenInTech
HerVenture, a business skills training mobile app for women entrepreneurs launched in Kenya
The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and DHL Express have launched HerVenture, a business skills training mobile app for women…
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News
4G networks support communities through Covid-19 pandemic
Much of the current hype in the telecommunications space focuses on the roll-out of 5G technology, the new mobile networks…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Jack Ngare: Organisations need to think critically about digital skills for the new world order
More than ever before, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the place of technology and elevated the need for employees to…
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Startups
Wimbart launches second edition of its mentorship programme for African tech startups
Wimbart, the London-based Public Relations agency specializing in Africa and emerging markets, has launched the second edition of its Office…
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News
Huawei Kenya and Partners Hold Online Job Fair with 40 Positions Available
Huawei Kenya and its partners today held an online job fair as they seek to hire more than 40 professional…
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BUSINESS
Consumers facing financial uncertainty under Covid-19, SCANAD report
Consumers shrinking wallets have sparked drastic shifts in spend, purchasing habits and routines as they try to cope with the…
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News
Microsoft’s new skills initiative to bring digital skills to 25 million people globally
Microsoft has announced a new global skills initiative aimed at bringing more digital skills to 25 million people worldwide by…
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News
5G’s Impact on Global GDP over $7.5 trillion
Huawei recently held its 5G+, Better World Summit, where various operators and industry partners shared their experiences of how 5G…
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News
After going fully remote, Andela is now accepting engineer applications from across Africa
After announcing that it is going fully remote, Andela, the startup that helps tech companies build remote engineering says it…
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New Appointments
IBM Appoints Caroline Mukiira New General Manager for East Africa
IBM has announced the appointment of Caroline Mukiira as General Manager for IBM East Africa. She succeeds Nik Nesbitt who…
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BUSINESS
Airtel Africa Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Boasts Of Over 110Million Subscribers in the Region
Airtel Africa is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. The company which is under Bharti Airtel established its presence in…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Africa, The disconnected continent
The world has been caught off guard. The pandemic. It is in every conversation, sits at every board room table…
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News
This NGO is using crypto to help hundreds of girls, women, and college workers in Nigeria and India
When WONDER Foundation saw its inception eight years ago with the mission to empower women and their communities through education,…
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CYBER SECURITY
Insiders remain one of the key threats to corporate cybersecurity in East Africa – Report
Insider-related cybersecurity incidents in East Africa is one of the key threats in East Africa. This is according to a…
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COLUMNS
[Opinion] Restriction on the use of U.S technology and its impact on the tech ecosystem
Day by day, our lives become more digital. We use digital technology in everything from cooking to communications. As the…
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CLOUD
VMware cloud partner, Routed, appointed as Africa’s first global DRaaS provider
South Africa’s Routed, has been listed as one of ten global providers of VMware’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).…
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News
Paxful and OKEx Partner to Provide Easy Access and Liquidity to Global Communities
Peer-to-peer bitcoin (BTC) marketplace Paxful has entered into a strategic partnership with cryptocurrency exchange OKEx to provide easy access and…
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News
Visa launches new initiative to support Small Businesses in Kenya
Visa has launched a new initiative to support support small businesses in Kenya. The “Where You Shop Matters’ initiative seeks…
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Startups
VC4A Calling On African Startups To Apply For 2020 ‘Venture Showcase Series A’ program
VC4A is calling on African startups looking to raise between $500K and $10M to apply for the 2020 ‘Venture Showcase…
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Startups
Kenyan e-health startup MamaPrime among winners of Sanofi VivaTech 2020 Global Challenge
Kenyan e-health startup MamaPrime is among the 5 winners of the VivaTech 2020 Global Challenge. This follows an online final…
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News
Huawei Launches IdeaHub to drive enterprise collaboration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chinese tech giant Huawei has launched an intelligent collaboration product to drive enterprise collaboration in the in Sub Saharan Africa…
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News
Internet Solutions is rebranding to Dimension Data East Africa
Internet Solutions (IS), Dimension Data and Continuity East Africa (CEA) are all rebranding to operate as Dimension Data East Africa.…
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News
Microsoft launches hackathon to spur innovation among Kenyan university students
Microsoft has launched a student-driven and hands-on hackathon programme to spur innovation among university students across Kenya. The Game of…
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News
Safaricom is Now Offering Affordable YouTube Data Bundle
Safaricom in partnership with Google has announced a new YouTube Data bundle. The data bundle can be used for YouTube…
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CYBER SECURITY
Sophos unveils an updated version of its EDR solution
Sophos today unveiled an updated version of its Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), the first solution designed for both security…
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BUSINESS
[Updated] IBM Exits Facial Recognition Technology Business Over Biasness and Inequality
(Updated on June 11): Amazon gives the US police departments a one-year respite on using its facial recognition technology IBM…
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News
Paxful Launches A Series of Webinars on the Resourcefulness of Bitcoin During COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
Paxful has launched a series of webinars targeted at positioning bitcoin as a resourceful tool in alleviating the COVID-19 pandemic…
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BUSINESS
[Updated] Okash and Opesa Criticized Over Debt Collection Malpractices by The Digital Lenders Association
The Digital Lenders Kenya Association (DLKA) has called out two digital lenders – Okash and Opesa – over their debt…
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