Integrated ICT services provider, Internet Solutions Limited is set to rebrand and operate as Dimension Data by the end of this year in all its operating companies. This is part of Dimension Data’s larger plan to consolidate its businesses, enhance efficiency, and better deliver the changing technology needs of its…
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Transsion-owned subsidiary, Infinix Mobile, is launching a new smartphone, Infinix Zero 8, in the Kenyan market today for KES 28,999 ($267). It as launched in Nigeria in August 2020. The stylish and fashion-focused Infinix Zero 8 runs on Android v10 operating system, with its key feature being the presence of…
Jobberman, one of the foremost players in the recruitment and employment industry announced that it has acquired a Nigerian competitor, NGcareers. Though the sum of the deal was not disclosed, this will see the ROAM company increase the gap its next competitor. Ngcareers was founded in 2009 by Paul and…
Indications have emerged that a major technology project is set to be unveiled in Nigeria in the coming weeks. Feelers from sources in the know claim that the project is one that is set to further deepen Nigeria’s pedigree as an emerging force to be reckoned with in the global…
The Samsung Blue Tag Sale is still on. It started on the 17th of August and is ending on Sunday, 6th of September 2020. The Sale is available in the following African countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. Items on offer include smartphones, TVs and home appliances. Here is a…
German-based Internet Startup Incubator, Rocket Internet, has announced that it will be delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange after its Initial Public Offering six years ago. According to the company in a statement, “the underlying rationale for the delisting is that, in the assessment of the Company’s Management Board and…
Kenya’s mobile telecom operator, Safaricom, has announced the second edition of the Spark Venture Fund established to invest and support late-seed, early-growth stage companies in Kenya. Safaricom has increased the fund from $1 million to $6 million in this second edition. The fund launched in 2014, was set up to…
The CCNA is an associate-level certification offered by the tech giant Cisco, which enables young specialists to expand their careers into the field of networking. While this certification is beneficial for all IT specialists, it is almost a must for Network Administrators. With most enterprises moving their data to the…
Chinese tech giant ZTE has announced the world’s first commercially-ready smartphone with an under-display selfie camera – the ZTE Axon 20 5G. This under-display feature means that the selfie camera is not as usual on the top of the phone. It is positioned under the display without a notch or…
9mobile, one of the mobile telecoms companies in Nigeria, has appointed Stjepan Udovicic as the Chief Commercial Officer of the company. Stjepan joins the company from Axiata Group Berhad and its operating company in Cambodia (Smart) Stjepan possesses vast international experience working in the telecoms, technology and service sectors in…
Rack Centre, the leading carrier neutral data centre operator in West Africa, has announced an expansion programme that will increase capacity to a total net lettable white space of 6000 square metres and allow for 13MW of IT power capacity in its Lagos campus. This will be in addition to…
CredoLab, a leading developer of bank-grade digital credit scorecards based on smartphone metadata, has raised $7 milllion in its Series-A round funding led by GBG, the global specialist in identity data intelligence. Other participants in the funding round include Walden International, an existing investor, and Access VC, among other new investors.…
Dr Ola Brown, managing partner and co-founder of Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Company announced that the company intends to set up a $1 billion fund to invest in health care and wellness across Africa. She made this known in an interview recently; “We are raising in three tranches within four years. The…
Priscilla Muhiu has been appointed the new General Manager of Spanish on-demand courier service, Glovo in Kenya. She takes over from William Benthall who has been appointed Glovo’s GM for Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to this appointment, Priscilla was the Africa Marketing Head for Glovo. She led the team that launched…
African music service, Mdundo.com, announced that its offer of DKK 40.0 million new shares was oversubscribed by 111%, a total of DKK 84.3 million ($13.6 million) Founded in November 2012, Mdundo.com is an African music service with 5 million monthly active users and 20 million monthly downloads. It was founded…
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Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina, has been re-elected as the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group for another five years. This re-election took place virtually during the bank’s 2020 Annual Meeting which took place on the 27th of August, 2020. The former Nigerian Agriculture minister who became president of the…
In a recently released set of guidelines, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has stated that Payment Service Banks (PSBs) cannot accept foreign currency deposits or accept any closed scheme electronic value (e.g. airtime) as a form of deposit or payment. The aforementioned and other reviewed guidelines are contained in…
US retail giant Walmart says it is teaming up with tech giant Microsoft to bid for the US operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned video sharing app that President Donald Trump has sworn to shut down unless it is sold to a US company. One wonders why Walmart, a retail giant,…