MoDe wins top IBM award

IBM has made MoDe the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Based in Nairobi Kenya, MoDe...

Microsoft goes 4Afrika

Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative, a new effort through which the company will engage...

Satellite Internet for Africa

K-NET, an African telecommunications company offering triple-play voice, data and video services across sub-Saharan Africa has...

Baidu partners with Orange

Orange has signed a partnership with Baidu, a Chinese Internet company, to develop a co-branded Internet...

Apps for African cities

Ericsson recently launched a regional competition for application developers, start-ups and visionaries living in sub-Saharan Africa...

ICT policy a challenge for Africa

Policy implementation remains one of the key challenges facing African governments with regard to information and...

Cheap smartphones will drive broadband in Africa

The rapid drop in smartphone pricing will play a major role in bringing Internet connectivity to...

MTN goes LTE in Uganda

MTN Uganda plans to deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Uganda during the coming months,...

Eskimi in tune with iROKING

Eskimi, one of the largest social networks in Africa and iROKING, an African music site, have...

ACE cable switched on in 13 African countries

France Telecom-Orange and the other members of the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium have announced...

Airtel completes LTE trial in Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria has completed a Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre...

Huawei, World Remit, expand mobile remittance in Africa

WorldRemit and Huawei have announced a partnership making WorldRemit’s international money transfer service available to all...

Going cashless is a priority for Africa tourism

Although tourism in emerging markets grew from 30 percent in 1980 to 45 percent in 2015...

Behind the rise of innovation accelerators in Africa

While businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa have steadily been adopting 3rd platform technologies, many are adopting disruptive...

IBM invests in Africa

As the tech world recognises the opportunity that Africa presents as one of the few growth...

Kinshasa gets Internet exchange

A new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) was launched earlier this month in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of...

MEF launches African Office

MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, has launched a dedicated regional office in...

Africa’s first all-LTE networks for the East

Smile Telecoms has extended its partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, to serve as its sole LTE network provider...

Airtel offers free roaming incoming calls

Airtel today introduced the world’s first free intercontinental incoming roaming service by including India, Bangladesh and...

Smartphone sales grow in Africa

While 2018 was a tough year for worldwide smartphone shipments, Africa experienced year-on-year growth for first...