Vodacom Group and Vodafone Foundation donated €4.2 million (R74 million) to support the vaccine roll-out to vulnerable and hard-to-reach communities across its markets in Africa. The contribution will buy cold-chain technology and provide logistics support to help to ensure the safe delivery of Covid-19 vaccines that need to be stored…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
BlackBerry Limited has announced that Volvo Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty trucks, buses and construction equipment, has selected BlackBerry QNX as the foundational software for its main domain controller ECUs in more than 300,000 heavy vehicles Volvo Group manufactures every year. To realize its vision for…
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. on Thursday officially announced the launch of Galaxy SmartTag+, available starting on April 16. Galaxy SmartTag+ is equipped with both Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and ultra-wideband (UWB) technology so that it can pinpoint the location of your missing item with greater accuracy. It also uses augmented…
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the parent company of Ecobank Group, has appointed Tomisin Fashina as its new Group Executive for Operations & Technology, a position he will now hold in addition to his existing role of Managing Director of eProcess International.Ade Ayeyemi, CEO Ecobank Group said: “The rapidly accelerating digital…
MTN on April 2, 2021, had the sales of its products through its banking channel partners suspended. Services were however restored on Sunday, April 4, 2021, with customers able to access all services. This was agreed on the basis that MTN would revert to its previous cost of sales structures…
SuperSport has secured the FIFA World Cup 2022 Pay Tv rights. Sequel to this deal, all 64 matches of the FIFA World Cup 2022, to be held in Qatar, will be broadcast live on SuperSport after the World of Champions concluded a broadcast deal with FIFA. This continues SuperSport’s long-standing…
Verdant Capital has raised USD 9.9m Series A equity capital for Tugende, a leading technology-enabled MSME lender in East Africa. The transaction is the most recent for the award-winning fintech and financial inclusion investment banking franchise of Verdant Capital. Partech Africa, a member of the Partech Group, a leading global…
Jobberman, the single largest job placement website in sub-Saharan Africa in a press conference today, announced its partnership with the USAID funded Alliance for eTrade Development II (eTrade Alliance) to help drive the development of Nigeria’s thriving e-commerce industry. The #FindyourdigitalSuperpower campaign is set to conduct behavioural profiling on 25,000…
Intel today launched its most advanced, highest performance data center platform optimized to power the industry’s broadest range of workloads — from the cloud to the network to the intelligent edge. New 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named “Ice Lake”) are the foundation of Intel’s data center platform, enabling…
Uber’s long-term partnership with Mastercard continues to grow with a new strategic initiative focusing on digital payments and advancing financial inclusions which will be facilitated by Mastercard across the Middle East and Africa (MEA). As a regional first, the partnership with Mastercard will enable Uber to drive digitization across their…
The African Development Bank has approved a loan of €145 million to finance reliability and performance upgrades to Egypt’s rail system under the Egypt National Railways Modernization Project (ENRMP). The funding will be used to enhance operational safety and to increase network capacity on national rail lines. Dr. Rania A.…
Sparkle, a mobile-first digital ecosystem providing financial, lifestyle and business support services to Nigerians across the globe, has launched Sparkle Business, a new service on the existing Sparkle mobile application, to help small businesses and SMEs access the much-needed products and services to grow their enterprises digitally. Sparkle Business features…
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Facebook has been working to connect people to accurate information and reduce misinformation on its platforms. Last month it announced the biggest worldwide campaign (bit.ly/3cGJamf) to promote authoritative information about Covid-19 vaccines – working to remove false vaccine claims, reduce the distribution of inaccurate health information,…
Schlumberger and Microsoft have expanded their strategic partnership to accelerate new technologies for the energy industry. The first offering, the Schlumberger Enterprise Data Management Solution for the OSDU Data Platform—a new industry standard for energy data—is now available. Energy companies will now benefit from an OSDU-compliant solution, and the ability…
Spotify has acquired Betty Labs, the creators of Locker Room, a live audio app that’s changing the way insiders and fans talk about sports. This acquisition builds on the company’s work to create the “future formats of audio” and will accelerate Spotify’s entry into the live audio space. “Creators and…
Vodacom on Thursday celebrated the achievements of 146 youth, including 89 women who graduated with certified ICT certificates from the mobile operator’s Youth Academy programme at a virtual graduation ceremony. The graduates spent 12 demanding months training through the Vodacom Youth Academy, whose sole purpose is empowering unemployed youth from…
Oracle has launched Oracle Cloud Lift Services to give Oracle customers expanded access to technical tools and cloud engineering resources to quickly migrate workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle now offers these resources – at no additional cost – to all existing and new Oracle Cloud customers worldwide. “Our…
Celonis, IBM and Red Hat today announced a global strategic partnership to help accelerate the adoption of the Celonis Execution Management System (EMS) and help deliver more flexibility and choice in how customers deploy the technology. The collaboration seeks to accelerate how customers apply process mining, intelligence and automation to the…
Seventy-four trainees from 26 African countries will join the continent’s community of climate finance experts after successfully completing a training program through the African Development Bank. Eighteen of the 74 graduates who emerged as top achievers qualified as trainers and will continue to build capacity across the continent. The “training…
Smile Telecoms Holdings Ltd., a Pan-African telecommunications group with operations in Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has announced that its RP (Restructuring Plan) has been approved and agreed with the lenders. This debt restructuring plan sees an injection in fresh money funding from Smile’s majority…