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Brain Drain: How to Curb the Mass Migration of Tech Talents from Africa
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SA’s Maize Farmers Set to Benefit From this New Agritech Innovation
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Ukheshe Technologies Appoints New CIO
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Is Africa’s Internet Economy Set for a Boom in the Near Future?
Image sourced from Newsweek. Professional investors are forecasting strong growth in the value of Africa’s internet economy with mobile phones central to the expansion, new global research from blockchain-based mobile network operator World Mobile shows. Mobile Internet Will Lead Into a Boom Period The study with professional investors responsible for around $700-billion assets under management by independent research company PureProfile found one in four (25%) expect the value of Africa’s internet economy to more than double over the next three years from the current estimated $115-billion. More than half (51%) expect it to be worth more than $200-billion by 2025. Increased use of mobile phones will be central to the growth which will be further enhanced by improved affordability, the stu...
SA’s Liquid & Telesat Join Forces to Bring “Lightspeed” Satellite Tech to Africa
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Ericsson Wallet Platform Launches in Mozambique Through TMCEL
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Huawei Watch GT 3 Series Has Been Launched in South Africa
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Nigeria Air’s Much-Anticipated Launch Date Finally Set
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Petrol Price Hike Expected by Midnight in South Africa
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Econet & Ericsson Launch 5G in Zimbabwe
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Tower Sharing Deal in the Works Between Safaricom & Ethio Telecom
Sourced from CGTN. Safaricom has reportedly begun negotiations on a new infrastructure sharing deal with Ethiopian rival and state-owned entity Ethio Telecom. This comes as the Kenyan telecom company and its consortium of investors prepare a much-anticipated launch in the Horn of Africa country over the next month. CEO of Safaricom in Ethiopia, Anwar Soussa, says that the company is currently working with Ethio Telecom and state regulator Ethiopia Communication Authority (ECA) to finalise all the details of the partnership. Safaricom is seeking to leverage the sparse, but already-existing tower infrastructure, as well as cell sites, masts and other active elements such as network roaming, that Ethio Telecom is maintaining to boost its initial launch, with the telco and its consortium expec...
Banking Malware Attacks Are “Becoming Increasingly Corporate” says Kaspersky
Image sourced from Finance Times. In 2021, the financial threats landscape witnessed positive changes where the overall number of users affected by malware reduced significantly, including a 35% drop in PC malware. Still, financial organisations, as cybercriminals’ most lucrative targets, continue to face massive threats. According to Kaspersky’s new Financial cyberthreats in 2021 report, attacks are becoming increasingly corporate rather than consumer-focused. In 2021, every third (37.8%) PC banking malware attack targeted corporate users, representing a growth of almost 14% since 2018. While 2021 saw an expansion in threats to financial organisations on a global scale, there was a continuation of the downward trend of PC and mobile malware previously seen in 2020. In fact, the numbe...
