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- 15 Jun 2022
Africa Data Centres Expands South African Footprint with New 20MW Facility in Cape Town
Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, a pan-African technology group, is pleased to announce building a second data centre in Cape Town, South Africa. The new 20MW facility…
- 5 Mar 2015
Thomson Reuters Inaugurates 4th Trading Africa Summit in Cape Town
Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has inaugurated the 4th Trading Africa Summit in Cape Town, South Africa. The summit,…
- 27 Mar 2022
Amazon will Discover e-Commerce in Africa not a Tea Party
By Tarila Ben-White Feelers indicate that Amazon may now be ready to explore what the continent has to offer on the e-commerce front but the nous and experience of indigenous giants such as Konga…
- 21 Apr 2021
Amazon to Open African Headquarters in South Africa
Amazon, a US e-commerce retail giant, has chosen South Africa as the headquarters for its African market. This development comes a week after Twitter, US-based microblogging and social networking…
- 17 Nov 2013
SAP Africa Launches Urban Matters Initiative
SAP Africa has kicked-off its SAP® Urban Matters initiative at the Africa Urban Matters, Cities of the Future event being hosted in Cape Town. The event focuses on how innovative technology can be…
- 10 Nov 2016
Light Reading, KNect365 Launch Connecting Africa Community
Light Reading, in partnership with KNect365, has launched a new online community, Connecting Africa, which will track, analyze and report on all the major developments in Africa's communications…
- 14 Feb 2014
British Airways Showcases Serious Customer Investment with Flight of Fancy
British Airways recently brought together the best of Britain and South Africa at 30,000 feet over Johannesburg to showcase how its £5 billion investment is benefitting customers. Some 200 guests…
- 22 Jul 2022
Treepz Wins GSA Award For Best Industrial Tech Company In Africa
Treepz Inc records another major 2022 win for its company. In the just concluded Global Startup Awards which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, Treepz bagged the award for Best Industrial Tech…
- 13 Nov 2014
Lagos to Receive 1.3m Visitors in 2014-MasterCard
Lagos has emerged as the fourth most visited destination city in Africa, according to the 2014 MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index. According to the index, 1.3 million international overnight…
- 2 Jul 2012
600m Africans Lack Electricity-Heutinck
Eric Heutinck, general manager, MAGHREB and West Africa, Royal Philips Electronics is a consummate salesman. Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified health and well-being…
- 14 Aug 2015
Ericsson AHUB to Connect African Innovators & Business Community
Ericsson on Thursday announced that it will be hosting an innovation station named “Ericsson AHUB” in partnership with Informa at AfricaCom 2015, Cape Town, 17- 19 November. The innovation station…
- 11 Nov 2022
AfCFTA will Forge Collaborations Among e-commerce Firms on the Africa, Accelerate Growth - Alerzo CEO
At the just concluded Africa Fintech Summit held in Cape Town, South Africa, Adewale Opaleye, the founder and group chief executive officer of Alerzo posited that the African Continental Free Trade…
- 6 Apr 2021
How Tech Companies Can Help Reverse Talent Erosion in Rural Communities
By Andrew Bourne, Regional Manager, Africa, Zoho Corporation For decades, companies, especially tech providers, have followed a certain operational pattern. They start out in a major city, raise…
- 5 Oct 2022
Ookla, UmIauT Name MTN as Best Network in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ookla, global leading data and technology firms and UmlauT, have named MTN as the best network in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using insights from its data platform, "Speedtest," which tests internet…
- 9 Jun 2017
Google to Train 6000 Africans on Digital Journalism
Google announced its support for a Digital Journalism initiative that will see 6 000 African journalists trained in data journalism skills by the end of February 2018. Google News Lab and the World…
- 8 Dec 2014
MasterCard Foundation to Spend $86.6m on African Scholars
At the Talloires Network Leaders Conference on Monday, The MasterCard Foundation announced that over 2,300 university students will be able to hit the books in classrooms in Uganda, South Africa and…
- 6 Jun 2013
Qatar Airways to Host 70th IATA AGM
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Qatar Airways will host the 70th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit. The event will draw the top…
- 2 Mar 2017
Global Internet Access Still Lagging Behind
The global community could miss the 2020 UN Sustainable Development Goals target for affordable, universal Internet access, as high connectivity costs remain one of the biggest obstacles. This is…
- 19 May 2017
Microsoft to Deliver Cloud Services from Datacentres in Africa
Last Night, Microsoft revealed plans to deliver the complete, intelligent Microsoft Cloud for the first time from datacentres located in Africa. This new investment is a major milestone in the…
- 17 Oct 2013
AfricaCom Awards Taps Mahindra Comviva for Awards
Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobile financial and VAS solutions, said that it has been nominated for the prestigious AfricaCom Awards. Mahindra Comviva has been shortlisted…
- 23 Oct 2024
d.light Joins Drive to Expand Off-grid Solar in Rural Kenya
d.light, the global provider of transformational household products and affordable finance for low-income households, has been chosen to take part in the latest Kenyan Government initiative to expand…
- 29 Jul 2015
WOSA Celebrates Nelson Mandela Day in Lagos
Trade businesses and wine enthusiasts gathered to savour great tasting wines at the Wines of South Africa Grand Tasting event held to commemorate Nelson Mandela Day at the Federal Palace Hotel,…
- 25 Mar 2014
PCCW, Phase3 Ink Deal on West Africa Communications Solutions
PCCW Global, a Hong Kong based international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong's premier telecom service provider, has signed a collaborative agreement with Phase3 Telecom, a West African market…
- 17 Nov 2018
NCC Chairman Applauds Channel VAS Founder for Company’s Growth
Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman, has congratulated Channel VAS founder and CEO Bassim Haidarfor his company’s achievements, during a meeting at the…
- 8 Jul 2013
US Firms Buy into Power Africa Initiative
Power Africa Initiative inspires US firms to step up and take action in Rapid Growth Economies of Frontier Nations such as South Africa, Tanzania, Nigeria, Liberia, and others. President Obama gives…
- 21 Mar 2016
Fiston Mwanza Mujila Announced Winner of 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature
Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila was on March 19, announced as the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was…
- 21 Aug 2017
Ondo State Partners SAP to Hold Africa Code Week 2017
Africa Code Week (ACW), a continent-wide initiative to spark the interest of African children, teenagers and young adults in software coding, returns for the 2017 edition Africa Code Week is one of…
- 19 Mar 2013
EMP Appoints Tunde Coker as Regional Head for West Africa
Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), a leading African and Middle Eastern payments company, has announced the appointment of Tunde Coker as its Regional Head of West Africa. "EMP's Bank Processing…
- 14 May 2013
Boosting Youth Employment through Digital Jobs
The announcement by the Rockefeller Foundation of an initiative to create jobs in Africa focusing on the digital field has been lauded as an important strategy by Jack Leslie, chairperson of Weber…
- 20 Jun 2015
Accenture, NBI to Enhance Business Operations & Sustainable Innovation
The narrative for Africa has for eons remained that of the ‘dark continent’ forever in the grip of stagnation; so much so that in May 2000, The Economist ran a cover story on Africa, headlined “The…