tech + telecom highlights
C Comba’s industry-leading RRH, base station antennas products and services, combined with Parallel Wireless world’s first 2G/3G/4G/5G software, advance Open RAN with lowest TCO for MNOs globally Parallel Wireless, Inc., and Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited jointly announced…
By Fraser Mitchell With the i5 Innovation Hub, Africa University seeks to develop and protect African Intellectual Property • Estimates of the damage done to the African economy through lack of Intellectual Property (IP) protection…
Massey Ferguson offers high performance products & solutions, including mechanization planning across all farming segments in Africa For three consecutive years emerging farmers throughout South Africa have gathered as members of the African Farmers' Association…
Telecoming will attend AfricaCom 2019 to present the new digital entertainment offer • Telecoming will look for partners to enhance its presence across the African market in which it operates since 2015 Telecoming will also…
Airtel Africa announces partnership with Ecobank Group to allow Airtel Money customers to improve their access to mobile financial services • The partnership will also allow Ecobank corporate account holders to make bulk disbursements, such…
The World Food Prize Foundation and the newly launched World Hunger Fighters Foundation are partnering to provide year-long fellowships for young African food innovators and entrepreneurs The World Hunger Fighters Foundation will award annual Borlaug-Adesina…
Thales, in partnership with Paycode, supports Ghana in this drive via a single card with two applications (EMV & Biometric) • Ghana continues to roll out initiatives that provide Ghanaians with secure and convenient digital…
The continent’s energy industry will be gathering at ADIPEC (Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference) in Abu Dhabi on November 11-14, 2019 to set the industry agenda for 2020 After a year of remarkable…
Advertising Week —the world’s largest annual gathering of advertising, creative, entertainment, marketing, media and technology industry leaders— has shifted its maiden Africa edition to 2020. Advertising Week Africa will now take place in the first…
Launched in Lagos, Nigeria, in June 2019, Kwik Delivery is an on-demand delivery platform focusing on the rich and diverse B2B and B2B2C market • On-demand delivery in Lagos can now be seamlessy integrated "The…
“Vodacom Digital Accelerator”, launched by telecommunication company Vodacom Tanzania Plc and Smart Lab, is a program that intends to help early-stage and growth-stage technology startups become profitable and revenue generating businesses. The new program which…
By Ayanda Kotobe, Finance Director at RS Components Why do we stop at traffic lights? It’s not because we are naturally attuned to seeing red as the order to stop. If that were the case,…
Since its initial introduction in April of this year, the DHL Africa eShop app has seen its user base grow rapidly, and within the first three months of operation, it had already been rolled out…
by Daniel Tyler, Conference Producer at ICE Africa Both jurisdictions have set a precedent that threatens to spread across and bring to a halt the great signs of promise demonstrated by the continents gaming industry…
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Africa remains small by global standards, but prominent in relation to Gross domestic products (GDP) • Africa’s growth remains uneven, with East Africa out-pacing the rest of the continent •…