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Nigeria’s Central Bank Launches eNaira Website
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Nigeria’s Andela Achieves $1.5-Billion Valuation in Latest Series E Round
Image sourced from TechCabal. Andela, a global engineering talent outsourcing company launched in Nigeria in 2014 has secured a $200-million investment during a Series E funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the venture capital arm of Japanese mega-corp SoftBank. This latest funding round brings Andela’s total valuation to $1.5-billion, officially making it Africa’s fifth unicorn startup. According to TechCabal, Andela began as an African-focused software developer training and outsourcing company. The firm soon grew to become a top source for talented, well-rounded developers in Africa thanks to the company’s developer training methodology and curriculum. The company received a comfortable $24-million injection from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in 2016. Last year, Andela went complet...
Frogfoot SA Acquires Link Africa’s FTTH Network
Abraham van der Merwe, CEO of Frogfoot Networks. Image sourced from ITWeb.com. Frogfoot, a licensed open-access infrastructure provider, has announced its acquisition of the Link Africa Western Cape FTTH (Fibre to the Home) network. The deal comes a few months after MetroFibre Networx purchased Link Africa’s FTTH network in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. Frogfoot says in a statement that the deal will aid in solidifying the company’s position in South Africa’s Fibre Network market. “We are very excited about the acquisition of the Link Africa network in the Western Cape. In addition to growing our FTTH, FTTB, and FTTS customer base and footprint, this transaction also has some nostalgic value. Some parts of the network we are acquiring today was built through a joint venture between Frog...
Businesses Need to Be “Data Driven” for True Digital Transformation says Altron
Image sourced from Planful. Over and above leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud services; it has been widely acknowledged that the key building block for true digital transformation is the need for businesses to become data-driven. Of course, this is a uniquely challenging task for almost every business. Dealing with the Data Challenge At the core of any data strategy lies the need to fully manage and exploit data as a strategic asset throughout its entire life-cycle across the enterprise. This has proven easy for companies born in the cloud, but inherently challenging for organisations that are not. Becoming data-driven requires the will, capacity, resources and discipline to rethink how a business operates from people to processes as well as the technology that glues these e...
AI & Data Storage: Tintri & DDN Together Enable this Symbiotic Relationship
Image by Mohamed Hassan: Pixabay. In the field of enterprise IT, artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzzword that we’ve seen used time and again over the past few years, with the promise of making every part of a business better. What does this mean specifically for data storage? This is the question posed in a recent Tintri blog, which clarifies that AI can be considered as any system that can sufficiently process data to augment, mimic or, in some cases, replace human cognitive functions. As outlined by Tintri co-authors Erwin Daria, Ram Narayanan and Kurt Kuckei, AIs perform within a ‘feedback loop’ that can be categorised by the following key stages: Data analysis: where data is fed into the AI. Inference: where the AI infers a condition from that data. Prescription/action: in most case...
South Africa Braces for Petrol Price Hike as Crude Oil Hits 3-Year High
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Amazon’s New Household Robot Can Learn Your Family’s Habits
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Ransomware Attacks Grew 1070% Since Last Year According to Fortinet
Image sourced from Feed Navigator. Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, today unveiled the 2021 Global State of Ransomware Report. The survey reveals most organizations are more concerned about ransomware than other cyber threats, it also reveals that ransomware grew 1070% year over year from 2020. “According to a recent FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape report, ransomware grew 1070% year over year. Unsurprisingly, organizations cited the evolving threat landscape as one of the top challenges in preventing ransomware attacks,” says John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet. “The high amount of attacks demonstrates the urgency for organizations to ensure their security addresses the latest ransomware attack techniques across n...
MTN Announces 5G Roll Out Date in Ghana
Sourced from TheTechieGuy (https://thetechieguy.com/) The Ghanaian arm of the largest telecom company in Africa has announced its intentions to launch and make operational 5G services in the West African country by 2023. This comes as MTN has yet to fully cover Ghana with its 4G spectrum, but projects to gain 98% 4G coverage by the end of 2022. Currently, MTN’s 4G coverage has reached 73% of the country. ModernGhana reports that the company revealed that it is modernizing its infrastructure and working with regulators towards 5G and that it will seek to have 5G mobile connectivity operating in Ghana by 2023. MTN Ghana addresses a cross-section of journalists during its Editor’s Forum. Image sourced from ModernGhana.com. According to the CEO of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, who made the annou...
Vodacom SA Partners Cybersecurity Firm Evina to Fight Mobile Fraud
Image sourced from SABC News. Vodacom, one of SA’s leading network providers, has announced a partnership with mobile payments cybersecurity company, Evina, in a major step forward in mobile user safety. According to a statement from Vodacom, mobile users in Africa’s most advanced economy will now join the ranks of the tens of millions of consumers globally that are protected daily by Evina’s payments technology. In recent years, the South African mobile industry has attracted a large number of fraudsters leading to a substantial increase in user complaint rates. These frequent fraudulent attacks are due to the fact that a large number of the African population uses a cellular phone, especially as a mobile payment method. Fraudsters are never far from where mobile transactions are. In Sout...
Kenya’s ICT Authority Appoints New CEO
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Vivo Y21 Smartphone Launches in Kenya: All the Specs + Pricing
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