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- 21 Jan 2020
YouTube Appoints Alex Okosi as Managing Director of Emerging Markets, EMEA
YouTube has announced theappointment of Alex Okosi as managing director of Emerging Markets for YouTube in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Alex will be responsible for running YouTube’s…
- 15 Jun 2015
ARM Server Units Keep Penetrating EMEA Markets- IDCPC Market Suffers 9.6 Percent Decline in First Quarter
International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker shows that in the first quarter of 2015 the EMEA server market continued the positive year-on-year growth seen throughout 2014, to report $3…
- 14 Jan 2013
Exset, Digital Telemedia Partner for Emerging Markets
Exset, pioneers of TV ecosystems for emerging markets, and Digital Telemedia (DTM) have announced their co-operation with Digital Telemedia becoming a Digital Monetisation System (DMS) technology…
- 7 Sept 2020
e-learning, Entertainment Boost EMEA Tablet Market
Tablet market performed positively in the second quarter of 2020 in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), with shipments growing by 23.8% year-on-year (YOY), for the first time in six years.…
- 31 Jan 2015
EMEA Flash Storage Market Records $2.9Bn Value in 2014- IDC
Flash storage is one of the disruptive technologies that are changing the game in the European storage market. Though it is a relatively new technology and many vendors have only entered the European…
- 15 Mar 2015
Compute, Data Hungry Applications Drive EMEA Server Spending Growth of 3.4%
As reported in International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker, in the fourth quarter of 2014 the EMEA server market continued the strong growth seen in the past few quarters, reporting…
- 16 Nov 2022
Alex Okosi Named One Of UK’s Most Influential Black Persons For Second Year Running
Alex Okosi, one of Africa's tech leaders, has been honoured as a member of the UK Powerlist 2023. Okosi, who is Managing Director, Emerging Markets, YouTube EMEA, received the honour for the second…
- 10 Nov 2021
BHM Salutes Alex Okosi on UK Powerlist Nod
BlackHouse Media (BHM) has saluted Nigerian media and tech executive Alex Okosi after he was named as one of Britain’s 100 most influential black people in the Powerlist 2022. Alex Okosi, Managing…
- 18 Sept 2015
Flash Storage Soars 113% YoY in EMEA- IDC
The external storage systems (ESS) market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) declined 11% year over year to $1.63 billion in the second quarter of 2015, according to the IDC EMEA Quarterly…
- 10 Oct 2017
HP, Lenovo & Dell Top Traditional PC Worldwide Shipment
HP, Lenovo & Dell tops Worldwide Shipment of Traditional PC’s (desktop, notebook, workstation) totaled 67.2 million units in the third quarter of 2017 (3Q17), which translates into a slight…
- 20 Jan 2017
Renaissance Capital Appoints Adedayo Ayeni to SSA Consumer Research Team
Renaissance Capital, a leading emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has announced the appointment of Adedayo Ayeni to its Sub-Saharan Africa research team. Ayeni has joined the Firm to take…
- 14 Jan 2015
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Grew 1% in 2014
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 83.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014, a 1 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2013, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. These results…
- 13 Sept 2013
Africa’s External Disk Storage Systems Market Still Flat
The external disk storage systems market value in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) remained almost flat in 2Q13, growing by 0.5% year on year to $1.77 billion, according to the latest EMEA…
- 18 Dec 2015
Flash Arrays Account for Over 50% of External Storage in EMEA- IDC
The value of the total EMEA external storage systems market fell 9.8% year over year to $1.57 billion in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), according to International Data Corporation's EMEA…
- 13 Apr 2017
HP Leads Again as Traditional PC Market Grows After 5 Years
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, workstation) totaled 60.3 million units in the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17), posting year-over-year growth of 0.6%, according to the…
- 12 Jun 2017
IDC Foresees Surging Demand for SD-WAN Solutions in EMEA
Software-defined networking has reached the wide area network (WAN). Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) will play a key role in network evolution as organizations try to cope with the accelerating…
- 6 Jul 2016
EMEA Cloud IT Infrastructure Revenue Grows 17.6% to $1.3Bn in 1Q16
The International Data Corporation (IDC) WW Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker, shows that IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in…
- 26 Mar 2015
Dell Breaks New Ground with META Business Region Creation
Dell, on Wednesday, announced it has combined its business in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa to create one new business region: META (Middle East, Turkey and Africa), which will be led by Driss…
- 4 Dec 2017
Telecommunications Services and Pay TV Services is Set to Grow by 2% in 2018, According to IDC
According to International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Telecom Services Database, Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services is expected to reach nearly $1.7 billion in 2017, an…
- 1 Jul 2026
S&P Sees Increased Loan Losses for Nigerian, African Banks Amid Global Risks
Nigerian banks are expected to contend with elevated loan losses through 2026 as high interest rates, persistent inflation and the withdrawal of regulatory forbearance continue to weigh on the…
- 10 Nov 2025
Equinix Unveils Plans for New $22m Data Center in Lagos
Equinix, Inc., the world's digital infrastructure company™, has announced its intention to open its latest high-performance data center in Lagos, Nigeria. The $22 Million investment in LG3 marks the…
- 26 Mar 2020
Canon Emerges No.1 in Global Interchangeable-lens Digital Camera Market
Canon said that the company’s interchangeable-lens digital cameras (DSLR and Mirrorless) have once again maintained the number one share of the global market for the 17th consecutive year from 2003…
- 21 Oct 2018
Hitachi Solutions to Spur Companies toward Digital Transformation
Mr. JP Smith, Director, Emerging EMEA Global Field and Industry Solutions, Hitachi Vantara has urged companies to drive their institutions with data in order to achieve innovations and revenue growth…
- 12 May 2021
YouTube Music Celebrates Africa Month with LIVE Performances from Sho Majozi, Sauti Sol, Fireboy DML, Others
YouTube Music on Wednesday released a schedule of performances and music-industry related events in celebration of Africa month. In the lead up to its Africa Day concert, in partnership with MTV Base…
- 15 Jun 2023
YouTube celebrates the 2023 grantees of it’s Black Voices Fund initiative
YouTube has reaffirmed its commitment to amplify Black voices in Africa with a two-day event in Nairobi, Kenya to celebrate the 2023 #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund grantees and allow them to connect,…
- 10 Apr 2014
Windows XP Migration Sparked Consumer PC Demand in 1Q2014-Report
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 73.4 million units in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14), a decline of -4.4% year on year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC…
- 9 May 2022
YouTube Reaffirms Commitment to Creators & Music Industry in Africa
YouTube has announced a series of events to run throughout the month of May in celebration of Africa month. The events are intended to reaffirm YouTube’s commitment to growing Africa's creator…
- 8 Oct 2020
YouTube Announces Black Voices Fund for Nigerian Artists and Creators
YouTube has announced that artists and creators from Nigeria can now apply for grants from its Black Voices Fund. The global $100m fund will, over the next three years, offer support to Black…
- 12 Jan 2021
YouTube Announces Inaugural #YouTubeBlackVoices Creator Grantees from Africa
YouTube on Tuesday released its inaugural class of African content creators set to receive a grant for the development of their channels from the global #YouTubeBlackVoices Fund. In addition to the…
- 23 May 2022
Africa Day Concert 2022: YouTube Announces the Superstar Lineup set to perform
YouTube has announced a stellar lineup of artists hailing from five countries, who will be performing at this year’s Africa Day Concert. Like previous editions, the Africa Day Concert which is in its…