Mediatek showcases African innovation in Dubai

Kenya's Airtel and South Africa’s Yoco featured among African products showcased at the chipmaker's Dubai event,...

BCX launches new Alibaba cloud service

The digital systems integrator has unveiled a cloud service powered by Alibaba, aimed at delivering innovative...

Fak’ugesi rewards African digital creativity

The Digital Innovation Festival honoured 10 Pan-African creative innovators.

Africa gets to grips with language of fraud

Visa's Stay Secure study reveals a disconnect between consumers’ confidence in recognising fraud and their online behaviour.

Microsoft-backed FAST selects 12 Africa AI startups

The artificial intelligence-focused accelerator programme brings startups to Silicon Valley to jumpstart technology innovation.

US sees massive tech opportunity in Africa

The African continent is bursting with technical skills potential, Cisco executive vice-president FRAN KATSOUDAS told ARTHUR...

Africa will drive global credit scoring market

Open Banking and AI is expected to help the sector generate Almost $27bn in 2023, says...

Fibre in the air lets 
affordable broadband fly

Fibre optic cables strung from poles provide high-speed connectivity to high-density neighbourhoods, writes SHANE CHORLEY, CEO...

Flapmax and Intel team up to push AI in Africa

The FAST Accelerator aims to empower local startups and SMEs.

Visa opens accelerator for African fintech

Startups in fintech and payments can apply for a chance to access training, connections, technology, and...

Ten Southern African fintechs win World Bank awards

The start-ups have each received $5,000 investment-readiness support for financial access solutions.

Why Africans must
go to space

The continent’s first woman astronaut says satellite tech can speed up development of African countries.

Africa engineering prize shared

A South African and Ugandan jointly won the 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

Head of Nigerian NGO wins Africa Education prize

HP, in collaboration with Microsoft and T4 Education, have named Simi Nwogugu, CEO of JA Africa,...

Digital can unlock
education in Africa

Research by Vodacom, Vodafone and Safaricom shows that connectivity hold the key to unlocking the true...

C-3PO coming to
Comic Con Africa

Anthony Daniels, the actor who played the iconic Star Wars character, will be at the Johannesburg...

AWS puts Nigeria on Edge

New Amazon CloudFront edge location offers customers up to 20% improvement in latency and added cybersecurity...

Africa Prize names finalists from SA, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda

Innovations include electromobility motorbike conversion, a portable uterine inspection device, and power packs made from recycled...

Inflation stifles smartphones 
across Africa

The continent's smartphone market has fallen to a three-year low as demand drops, although feature phones...

Africa’s top 5 smart cities
show what is possible

Smart cities are a potential solution to Africa's urban challenges, writes Axis Communications sales manager MARCEL...