BizTrends 2018
These are exciting times for the African tech space, but which ecosystem is the best place to launch or invest in a startup?
With the large quantities of personal data financial services providers handle, they have had their hands full preparing for the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI)...
1 day ago
Smart cities, digital cities, virtual cities, connected cities. Are these just trendy buzzwords?
Christine Steinmetz 1 day ago
Despite the ongoing spectrum constraints, Vodacom now provides 80.12% 4G coverage in South Africa, with 99.78% of the population covered by 3G and 99.97% covered by 2G...
1 day ago
De Beers has taken another step towards ridding the trade of its "blood diamond" tag with a mobile tracking app for miners in Sierra Leone. While Gemfair may be useful, more needs to be done to ensure safety...
Jane Mcintosh 1 day ago
Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA has officially announced that its high-performance mobile chip platform Spreadtrum SC9850 and SC7731E fully support Android 8.1 (Go version)...
Spreadtrum 1 day ago
Women currently hold 19% of tech-related jobs at the top 10 global tech companies...
2 days ago
Tech startup, CoinAfrique, which claims to be the most downloaded classifieds app in francophone Africa, has garnered €2.5m from several investors in its first round of venture capital financing...
2 days ago
The increased connectedness of consumers is contributing to a more dynamic environment - one where expectations on what the buying experience must entail are evolving...
Leon Coetzer 2 days ago
Kenyan agri-tech startup Twiga Foods has partnered IBM Research to extend access to microloans to 220 food stall retailers across Kenya using a blockchain-based financing system...
Tom Jackson 2 days ago
The annual Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW), taking place from 14 to 18 May 2018, is a global event facilitated by the Business Continuity Institute to raise awareness of the latest trends in business continuity...
2 days ago
Forrester's recent predictions for CIOs working on data and analytics initiatives warn that the capabilities of new technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), require the redesign of operating models...
2 days ago
As dynamics and demand change, how is the academic domain ensuring that their graduates are ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?...
OLSPS Analytics 2 days ago
Disrupt Africa will host its first live startup pitching competition at the AHUB East event in Nairobi next month, with the best startup winning a trip to pitch at AfricaCom in Cape Town in November, alongside other prizes...
2 days ago
Did you know that 98% of your global data travels under the ocean on subsea fibre optic cables, not via satellites?
Ilse van den Berg 3 days ago
While there have been some recent setbacks (and there will doubtless be more) it appears that, with the massive investments in R&D, driverless cars will one day become a reality...
Sherry Zameer 3 days ago
Modern cities are brimming with objects that receive, collect and transmit data...
Sara Degli-Esposti and Siraj Ahmed Shaikh 3 days ago
The development of AI, AR and 3D facial recognition technology means the fantastic scenes of the movie, Ready Player One, aren't far off...
Spreadtrum 3 days ago
Volkswagen Group is creating a software development centre for Volkswagen Group IT and Mand Truck and Bus AG in Lisbon, Portugal...
2 days ago
Software testing is undergoing much change due to DevOps growth. How is this being done, and how do technology companies keep up?...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 3 days ago
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