Browsing: Africa

MTN Nigeria today announced that its subsidiary, Yello Digital Financial Services Limited (YDFS) has been granted a full Super Agent…

by Wim Delva The term “data science” was coined by scientists working at the social networks LinkedIn and Facebook in…

VC4A is looking for 10 innovative, high-growth scale-ups to showcase at Africa Early Stage Investor Summit on Nov 13-14 in Cape…

American Tower has acquired African masts business Eaton Towers for an enterprise value of $1.85bn (R27 billion) to give the…

By Tammy Hodgskiss, University of the Witwatersrand Digital technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. So it…

A growing amount of computer equipment from Western nations is being found on toxic eWaste dumps throughout Africa and is…

By Byron Clatterbuck, CEO, SEACOM Since 2009, the African telecoms industry has come a long way in connecting people and…

By Henning Melber These days the African middle class is widely discussed as a phenomenon considered indicative of social change. But…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer the stuff of science fiction but an essential part of the reality…

By Staff Writer Opera and digital reading non-profit Worldreader have joined forces to understand how women in Africa use mobile…

South Africa’s political uncertainty is slowing down mergers & acquisitions activity in the rest of the continent after inbound deal…

Vodacom, a South African-based mobile phone operator, reported a 3.9% revenue growth to R20.7 billion in the first quarter to…

By Staff Writer Stellenbosch-headquartered FinTech company Entersekt announced on Wednesday that it has appointed ICT industry veteran Pattison Mutambiranwa…

South Africa’s SqwidNet is fast-tracking the deployment of its open-access Internet of Things (IoT) network infrastructure to enable developers to…

SqwidNet is keen to expand its network to the rest of Africa, its CEO, Reshaad Sha, said on Tuesday. The company…

By Mervin Miemoukanda, senior research analyst: Software and Market Intelligence in Africa at International Data Corporation  While businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa…

By Brian Richardson, CEO and Co-Founder, WIZZIT International In Africa, banking the unbanked remains a pressing need. Roughly 700 million…

The digitisation of our economy is changing various sectors of the economy – and the agricultural industry is no exception.…

By Brett Parker, managing director: SAP Africa With the impending impact of machine learning and robotics on a range of…

By Brett Parker, MD at SAP Africa By now, I am convinced that you have heard of M-Pesa, the popular…

By Staff Writer Today Google announced its support for a Digital Journalism initiative that will see 6 000 African journalists…

By Reshaad Sha, CEO at SqwidNet Along with the rest of the world, South Africa is in the midst of the…

By Vincent Chin, Boston Consulting Group’s Senior Partner and MD of South East Asian businesses and operations “Show me the…

The African continent has huge potential to create more “unicorns”, or privately-owned technology businesses valued at $1 billion (R13.5 billion)…

SweepSouth, Africa’s pioneer in using technology to provide on-demand and regular home cleaning services, has raised undisclosed amount of capital…