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Liquid Telecom, a leading pan-African telecoms group has just announced that it will be investing…
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a $6 million equity investment…
Apple has acquired Platoon, a London-based A&R startup focused on discovering rising music artists.
Marvel has released the trailer for Avengers 4. Avengers: Endgame is the official title for…
Waymo is all set to take a step ahead as they bring their service of self-driving Waymo…
Samsung will collaborate with Korea Transportation Safety Authority (KOTSA) to build on next-generation telecommunication technology which will enable autonomous driving innovation.
MTN Nigeria has launched the first Disney mobile web service in Nigeria, Disneynigeria.mobi. The Disney mobile…
Lyft Inc. filed confidentially for an initial public offering of stock, pulling out ahead of…
EcoCash, Steward Bank partner to offer hassle-free small loans with Steward Bank also unveiling instant *236# bank-account opening service.
MTN has launched a “world first” music streaming service called MusicTime.
In line with its commitment to skills development and the empowerment of entrepreneurs in Nigeria,…
A British parliamentary accuses Facebook of letting some companies including Netflix and Airbnb access users list of friends after it cut off that data for most other apps around 2015.
The new Google phone looks like a feature phone, similar to the JioPhone, but comes with KaiOS and some smart functionality including Google Assistant.
In a post on its official blog, Google laid out a simplified messaging strategy for the…
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Apple yesterday announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter ended September 26, 2015. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $51.5 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.1 billion, or $1.96 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $42.1 billion and net profit of $8.5 billion, or…
CA Southern Africa has revealed the results of a CA Technologies global study on the role of software as a business enabler, finding that in today’s application economy, it’s clear that digital transformation has reached every aspect of business. Simply put, exploiting modern technology and communications to transform one or more…
Sanjeev Gupta joins Africa Finance Corporation AFC as Executive Director, Financial Services
In January, 2015 AFC implemented a new organisational structure. The purpose of this re-organisation was to increase the Corporation’s client responsiveness by creating sector clusters, that would each be responsible for delivering all of AFC’s products to clients within those sectors, simplifying the Corporation’s structure and increasing responsiveness. In achieving…
An 11-month-long joint investigation by Premium Times, Finance Uncovered and amaBhugane has revealed that MTN has been running circles around Nigerian revenue authorities using a complex but noxious tax avoidance scheme called Transfer Pricing. “For any economy, it is a slow death,” the report said. The investogators said MTN Nigeria…