Aggregators are enabling independent voices in Kenya’s controlled news circuit
Kenya is all about the news. No, literally, “Habari”, a common greeting in Swahili, means “Any news?” in English. Everyone…
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Digital technology: friend or foe against climate change?
From the energy that goes into making smartphones to the fact that even emails create carbon emissions, the world’s internet…
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Businesses Need to Be “Data Driven” for True Digital Transformation says Altron
Over and above leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud services; it has been widely acknowledged that the key building block…
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Kenyan retail-tech startup MarketForce expands to Nigeria
MarketForce, the Kenya-based B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods and digital financial services, has made Nigeria its first…
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Nigeria: Uber launches ride-hailing operation in 2 new cities, Ibadan and Port-Harcourt
Ride-hailing company, Uber has announced the expansion of its services to two new cities in Nigeria, Port Harcourt and Ibadan….
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Onyeka Akumah : A Ride On A Bus That Changed This Entrepreneur’s Journey
Designing websites came naturally to Onyeka Akumah even as a college student, but his greatest epiphany was in a moving…
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Google and YouTube say they won’t allow ads or monetized content pushing climate denial
Google announced Thursday that it would no longer allow ads or monetization for content that promotes climate change denialism. The policy…
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Ghanaian startup Kaazi launches football talent identification platform
Ghanaian startup Kaazi has launched the public beta of its football talent identification and recruitment platform, which will be available…
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Nedbank & Microsoft Launch Free Online Digital Skills Training Platform
Nedbank, one of South Africa’s largest lenders, has announced the launch of the Nedbank DigiSkills online platform, in partnership with…
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How Huawei is innovating nonstop for faster digitalization
Huawei’s, annual flagship event for the global ICT industry – HUAWEI CONNECT 2021 – kicked off on Sep 23, 2021….
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SA prop-tech venture builder Castle One secures significant investment
South African prop-tech venture building group Castle One has received a “significant investment” from HL Hall and Sons Holdings in…
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Facebook Explains Largest-Ever crash: 10-point Guide to What Went Down
Facebook had its largest outage ever that took down WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and even Facebook’s internal tools for over six…
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YouTube making ads on connected TVs more shoppable
YouTube announced on Monday that it’s expanding video action campaigns (one of Google’s interactive ad types for video) to connected…
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Facebook engineering team reveals underlying causes of October 4th outage
The Engineering team at Facebook has revealed the underlying factors that led to six hours of global outage that also affected WhatApp…
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Why Digitisation is Key to Rescue SA’s Water Infrastructure
South Africa’s water system is in trouble. In the 2020/21 financial year alone, there were over 55,800 pipe bursts, over a…
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How SA’s abela provides a secure payment platform to the informal economy
South African startup abela is supporting the informal economy with the same autonomy and security that banks offer to the…
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Navigating data privacy legislation in a global society
China, the most populous nation in the world, passed its first significant data privacy legislation in August. Moving forward, any…
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9 Horrifying Facts From the Facebook Whistleblower’s New 60 Minutes Interview
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published internal research from Facebook showing that the social media company knows precisely how toxic its…
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Zoom’s $14.7-Billion Deal with Five9 Put On Mute
In July, video conferencing mainstay Zoom announced that it was stepping into its first major acquisition buying cloud call centre service provider…
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WhatsApp Banned 2.07 Million Indian Accounts in August to Prevent Harmful Behaviour
WhatsApp banned over 2 million accounts in the month of August to curb abuse and prevent harmful behaviour on the…
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Oaklinks.NG launches e-Commerce services to tackle sub-standard products
A Nigerian e-Commerce website developed by a startup, Oaklinks.NG has launched its range of services into the market on the month that…
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Internet Society Foundation launches new grant program to improve connectivity
The Internet Society Foundation has launched a new grant program to advance Internet access and connectivity around the world. Known as the BOLT program,…
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TikTok starts flirting with NFTs
The NFT space has had quite the year, and while it can be difficult to separate the billions of dollars…
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General Motors’ new software platform Ultifi is coming to vehicles starting in 2023
General Motors is rolling out Ultifi, a new end-to-end software platform in vehicles starting in 2023 that executives say will…
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Vodacom SA Partners Cybersecurity Firm Evina to Fight Mobile Fraud
Vodacom, one of SA’s leading network providers, has announced a partnership with mobile payments cybersecurity company, Evina, in a major…
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The new era of education is high-tech and high-touch
We’ve heard a lot about the role of technology in pandemic education, and for good reason: Digital solutions enabled school…
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Netflix acquires its first games studio, “Oxenfree” developer Night School
Night School Studio, the independent game developer known for narrative-driven titles like “Oxenfree,” announced today it has been acquired by…
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Facebook’s Effort To Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal : Facebook has come under increasing fire in recent…
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Afreximbank launches pan-African payment platform to ease cross-border transactions
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched the pan-African payment and settlement system (PAPSS), a financial market infrastructure, to enable cross-border payments…
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2Africa Cable Extends to India: Now Longest Subsea Cable in the World
The 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, announced today…
