Pan-African ICT service provider SEACOM is expanding to bring its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) services to Kenyan businesses, offering reduced connectivity costs, increased security, agility, and local support to customers.

SEACOM’s experience with ICT infrastructure in Africa is extensive; the company launched Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system in 2009 and provides continent-wide secure Internet. It also offers a full suite of communications...

Nokia today announced that it has signed a deal to deploy its comprehensive network technologies to Angola’s new mobile telecommunications operator, Africell, to provide 2G, 3G and 4G services in the capital city Luanda.

This deal significantly expands the footprint of both Nokia and Africell in Africa. By deploying a brand-new network, Africell can take advantage of the latest cloud technologies to achieve cost efficiency gains from shared infrastructure, as well as improved control and flexibility which enable differentiated...

Huawei has announced the appointment of Terry HE as President of Huawei Northern Africa. In this role, he will be responsible for coordinating the group's overall operations in the 28 African countries in the region.

Terry HE holds a Bachelor's degree in electronic information engineering from Wuhan University in China and joined Huawei Group in 2005. Prior to current appointment, Terry HE had 15 years of experience in the Middle East, where he successively served as COO of Huawei Pakistan, CEO of...

Banque Misr signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with Microsoft Egypt to launch the first open innovation program in the Egyptian market, enabling a spurt in fintech startup growth.

The collaboration between the two parties aims to enable startups to contribute to digital transformation efforts that are driven by multi-disciplined digital technologies, while enhancing the fintech and entrepreneurial capabilities of these companies. This is in addition to supporting the business...

Omnisient, a secure data exchange and collaboration platform which enables companies to improve data-driven decision-making, has secured $1.4 million in a pre-Series A round led by Investec, Nedbank, and Compass with participation from Tahseen Consulting and Technova from the United Arab Emirates.

The funding will be used to expand Omnisient’s team, accelerate product development and international expansion. “With the growth of digital economies and...

Connected asset financing platform M-KOPA, has officially expanded to Nigeria. To lead the Nigeria team, M-KOPA has named Babajide Duroshola as the new General Manager.

A part of the tech company’s broader expansion strategy, the move into the Nigerian market signals M-KOPA’s focus on offering millions of underbanked customers across Sub-Saharan Africa access to life-enhancing products and services such as smartphones, solar lighting, energy-efficient...

MarketForce, the Kenyan-based B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods and digital financial services in Africa, announced a $2 million pre-Series A round, bringing total funding to-date to $2.5 million.

With this fresh round of funding, MarketForce has brought on V8 Capital, Future Africa, Greenhouse Capital, Launch Africa, Rebel Fund, Remapped Ventures, and a couple of strategic angel investors as new investors. They joined Y Combinator and existing investor P1 Ventures, who also participated in...

ESET, a global industry-leading IT security provider together with other players in the cybersecurity sector have raised the red flag on the increase of state and state-sponsored cyber attacks targeting government departments, critical infrastructure, military establishments and corporate companies in Africa and the Middle East.

Governments globally have always conducted offensive cyber - operations but these campaigns have grown in volume and impact with the most famous being the Stuxnet Malware...

Utilities companies should be used to the occasional existential threat. It happened when monolithic phone companies had to adapt globally to the arrival of the internet, smartphones and competition from digital-first competitors.

Today, electric utilities worldwide are facing an Amazon moment with the arrival of a vast array of digital newcomers and increased complexity, from blockchain-enabled electricity trading platforms to smart neighborhoods. Across the board, utilities are facing de-commoditization and shifts in the way...

Digital transformation alongside automation enablers like artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), coupled with the responsible utilisation of data assets will be determining business success factors over the next five years, according to Grant Phillips, Group CEO at e4.

While the landscape will be enormously different in the coming years, Phillips says that the brands who will succeed the most are those that move beyond a fascination with the technology itself but to understand how it can address ever changing...

While organisations across West Africa work to recover from the economic impact of the pandemic, the global cybercrime industry is going into overdrive.

An increasingly sophisticated cybercrime industry is launching a range of attacks aimed at organisations and critical infrastructure. Such attacks are growing in volume and sophistication, putting our collective economic recovery at risk at a time when organisations invest more heavily in digital technologies. Global attacks on Internet of Things devices...

Africa needs more cloud computing skills. IT professionals in the region need to gain skills in cloud and data architecture due to the rapidly increasing number of organizations subscribing to integrated cloud services in recent years.

This has especially been accelerated by the pandemic. In fact, analysts predict more and more businesses will be moving to cloud as businesses and their employees worldwide continue to face tremendous challenges in maintaining business...