How Microsoft Was Able to Thwart the Largest DDoS Attack Ever
A massive 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack has been mitigated by Microsoft, the company says. The…
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How Much Will Kenyans Need to Pay for MTN Uganda’s Free IPO Shares?
MTN Uganda is offering free shares to Kenyan investors in a bid to motivate them in buying stocks in the…
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The Mobile Malware Scourge Hits SA, Kenya & Nigeria
Internet security provider Kaspersky has blocked more than 206,000 mobile malware attacks across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META)…
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This Startup Puts Tech in Teachers’ Hands to Change Student Lives
There is a persistent issue when it comes to the lack of education and how it contributes to the cycle…
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Are Independent Projects the Future of Nigerian Energy?
The successful completion of the Azura Edo 450 MW gas-fired power project in 2016 was hailed at the time as…
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AstraZeneca, RAEng partnership to boost African healthcare innovators
Global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have announced a new partnership to establish connections between…
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The rise of African tech unicorns,with 4 startups having recently reached a $1 billion valuation
African unicorns have made big news in recent months, with four startups having recently reached a $1 billion valuation or more this…
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Kenya’s Sendy invests in Ivory Coast-based logistics startup Kamtar to accelerate pan-African expansion plans
Kenyan logistics startup Sendy has completed a strategic equity investment in Ivory Coast-based counterpart Kamtar to boost the former’s expansion…
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GitOps Best Practices: Orchestrating Continuous Delivery with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
From my perspective, GitOps has completely changed how to achieve flawless Continuous Delivery. The infrastructure as code (IaC) approach of…
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Nigeria’s Opay is the only African fintech listed in the 2021 Top 250 by CB Insights
The African tech startup space has continued to be dominated by financial technology companies. These fintech companies have gained more…
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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…
