Year 5 | Edition 28 | 17 May 2022 |
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Incentro announced the signing of a strategic partnership with Monday.com, awarding Incentro the ability to deliver training, consultancy and service of monday.com’s work OS to the African market.
The Israeli based monday.com has a wide global network of organizations that take advantage of its collaborative tools. In conjunction with Incentro’s expertise in Google Cloud, Google Workspace and Chrome Enterprise, there’s a vast combined knowledge and experience to further drive digital...
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Safaricom is set to launch commercial operations in Ethiopia within the year. Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa confirmed this while releasing the telco’s Full Year 2021/2022 results released last week.
In readiness for the commercial launch, Safaricom Ethiopia has recruited a team of over 300 staff, of which 50% is local talent, with plans of reaching 1,000 in the next financial year. The business also has onboarded distributors, secured four retail shop locations and set up the first outsourced call...
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Cybersecurity specialist Obscure Technologies has formed a strategic alliance with DNSSense that will enable the delivery of DNS Layer Security, DNS Analysis and Advanced DNS Visibility products to Africa’s enterprise networks.
Obscure Technologies is a company comprised of cyber security experts specialising in brokering best of breed security solutions into the African market. Fielding one of the most highly skilled and certified cyber security teams of any distributor in South Africa, Obscure Technologies has...
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Kenyan B2B E-Commerce startup Twiga Foods today launched a new subsidiary that is focused on modern and commercial farming. Known as Twiga Fresh, the new division will scale the efficient production of domestic horticultural staples like onions, tomatoes and watermelons making it one of the largest single horticultural farms in Africa, focused purely on the domestic market.
Twiga is investing $10M in Twiga Fresh and says in the long term it will be funded through debt in partnership with Development Financial Institutions, focused on primary...
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Amazon is giving customers in Egypt access to buy now, pay later (BNPL) thanks to a consumer financing offering from valU Consumer Finance. According to multiple media accounts, valU will offer the payment method on amazon.eg to eligible customers, who will gain the option to divide their cost into multiple payments.
As part of the agreement, Amazon will acquire $10 million in the global depositary receipts of EFG Hermes, the investment bank that owns valU. The deal gives Amazon the option to replace that investment into valU at a later date, which...
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Egyptian Company for Tracking Services (ETIT) has announced collaboration with Zoomcar, the largest car sharing marketplace covering emerging markets, according to which, Zoomcar fleet will obtain a number of tracking devices.
The partnership aims to provide both car owners and renters with the best services along with the highest levels of security and safety, thus becoming the only company in Egypt that offers this type of solutions within the smart mass transportation sector. Major General Samir Fathi...
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Tecnotree, a Finnish-based global provider of digital transformation solutions for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and Digital Service Providers (DSPs), announced the launch of its digital transformation stack, for enterprise and consumer businesses with MTN Ghana, one of the leading telecommunications service providers in Ghana with over 25.3 million subscribers.
This transformation for B2B and B2C empowers the operator with rapid response capabilities, allowing it to meet its enterprise market demand and deliver augmented customer experiences at a reduced cost. Tecnotree’s Digital...
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Nokia has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) to consolidate and replace its Human Resources systems in the cloud as part of its global digitalisation program.
Nokia will use a worldwide deployment of Oracle Cloud HCM to manage all HR processes, including recruitment, compensation, and performance management, for the company’s global workforce in its 130 countries of operation. In 2021, Nokia launched its ‘One Nokia Digital’ strategy to...
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Relativity, a global legal and compliance technology company, announced that ENSafrica, Africa's largest law firm, is the first law firm on the continent to adopt RelativityOne, the industry leading SaaS e-discovery solution.
The choice to adopt RelativityOne enables ENSafrica to deliver excellence through the provision of world-class technology and services in the cloud to their clients across the African continent. With RelativityOne, ENSafrica can provide clients with novel solutions faster, with an extensible cloud product...
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The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has engaged Lleida.net, to send all its registered electronic communications. The agreement, which takes effect immediately, is part of the company's growing expansion plan in Africa.
Sisco Sapena, CEO and Founder, Lleida.net: "Nigeria is the most important market in the region, where the company has already been working for many years. In a country with a growing economy, Lleida.net's proprietary services can represent an important vehicle to accelerate the continent's...
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Covid-19 brought about rapid digital disruption of delivery of educational content. The acceleration of digitalisation in education has created both threats and opportunities for developing economies such as those in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
By way of positives, online access to education has brought world-class curricula from leading global institutions within reach of anyone anywhere. This has allowed individuals with high-speed Internet access to become familiar with the...
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Unicaf is an online and blended learning higher education platform that is dedicated to making higher education of international standard accessible, by offering scholarship opportunities to professionals and young school leavers.
What are scholarship opportunities?
A scholarship could be defined as financial aid that relieves the burden of tuition fees and living costs that students and families have to pay to secure a place in secondary and tertiary education. Considering the rising costs of student expenses and debts, we could nowadays describe education...
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The Africa Trade Expo (TATE) presents direct access to African buyers whose main aim is to source the latest products, establish partnerships, and conclude import/export deals. TATE is an ongoing virtual trade show for African businesses to network, collaborate, and enter into partnerships with international manufacturers and exporters. Present your new opportunities, network, build relationships and grow your business in African markets...
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Future Foods is a virtual meeting place for importers, F&B managers, retail category buyers, owner-operators, agents, and distributors from across Africa’s diverse and booming market to come to conferences, to network, meet exhibitors, source products, new ingredients, retail shelf-ready products, and the latest processing, packaging, and logistics solutions. Future Foods connects attendees exhibitors across the...
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Search engines have given us easy access to more and seemingly ever-fresh sources of content that have the potential to be just as detrimental, if not more so, than cyberbullying. Of course, search engines, just like most technologies, are not inherently bad, but they aren’t neutral either which means there’s good reason to be cautious.
Paradoxically, while one of the greatest areas of progress in computing relates to search engine algorithms, some of the most concerning issues are rooted in them too. With greater use of search engines, their design evolved largely...
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Over the past month, there has been an increase in an evolved method in change in bank details or payment fraud. This trend involves an internal change of bank details, mostly for the CEO.
Traditional payment fraud has been rife for some time, where the cybercriminal impersonates the CEO, or other senior member of staff, to convince the finance department to make an urgent payment to either a new supplier or update their bank details. The change of bank details fraud uses fake...
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Securing meaningful, sustainable growth in Africa requires a precise skillset with an airtight strategy, the right product fit with a tailored understanding of the market, and crucially, forward-looking leadership.
On the back of two high profile customer wins in the financial services sector. Accelerated digital transformation presents exciting new opportunities for growth that are finally being shaped by and for African people and reflects on the five ways IT companies can grow in Africa...
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With more and more businesses moving into the e-commerce space, it's increasingly becoming essential to curve a way for your online business to stand out and thrive among competitors. One of the surest ways to get leads for your online business is digital marketing.
Digital marketing is the art of promoting your products and services online. For a campaign to be considered successful, it has to have leads that convert into sales, boost brand awareness, and, over time, create customer loyalty, among...
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