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The MTN Icon 5G looks to be a redadged ZTE Blade A75 5G

Telecoms & Networks

MTN brings 5G to the people with R2,500 ZTE device [updated]

Lindsey Schutters 28 Nov 2024

Source: Pexels.

Financial Services

How Ninety One is closing Africa’s infrastructure gap

25 Nov 2024

Africa Tech Festival 2024 saw some pushback against the traditional beliefs around affordable connectivity.

Hardware

How our leaders are solving Africa's smartphone struggle #AfricaTechFestival

Lindsey Schutters 14 Nov 2024

Angela Wamola, head of GSMA for sub-Saharan Africa presents the latest GSMA report.

Telecoms & Networks

GSMA report spotlights Africa’s ‘billion strong digital divide’

Lindsey Schutters 12 Nov 2024

Sitholizwe Mdlalose, CEO of Vodacom SA, joined his MNO peers on a GSMA panel ahead of Africa Tech Festival.

Internet

Vodacom SA CEO says Maziv deal would not make a monopoly

Lindsey Schutters 11 Nov 2024

Source: Microsoft Designer

Internet

SA fibre providers are bridging the connectivity gap

David Coleman 24 Oct 2024

YOUKNOW Technologies partners with Amplitude to enhance digital product experiences in South Africa

Digital

YOUKNOW Technologies partners with Amplitude to enhance digital product experiences in South Africa

Issued by YOUKNOW Technologies 16 Sep 2024

HMD launching a Barbie phone that doesn't advance women's rights is very 2024.

Mobile & Apps

HMD launches retro Barbie flip phone, but forgets women empowerment

Lindsey Schutters 28 Aug 2024

Andrew Egan, Africa regional sales director at Infobip, with Stephan Naudé, operations manager at Ship Logic. As Infobip’s first RCS client in South Africa, Ship Logic is entering a new chapter in its technology journey.

Mobile & Apps

Infobip partners with Bob Group for first RCS implementation in SA

25 Jun 2024

Staring down challenges... and winning

IMC Conference

Staring down challenges... and winning

Issued by IMC Conference 11 Jun 2024

Peter Walsh, MD CommsCloud

Telecoms & Networks

Transnational SIMs enable IoT’s potential in Africa

Peter Walsh 10 Jun 2024

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

Trends

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

Raymond Langa 24 Apr 2024

Telecoms & Networks

#MWC24: All the trends that mattered in Barcelona

Lindsey Schutters 5 Mar 2024

Connecting cultures: Amapiano, from South Africa to the world...

Music

Connecting cultures: Amapiano, from South Africa to the world...

Vanashree Govender, Issued by Irvine Partners 27 Sep 2023

Image source: Kindel Media from

E-commerce

How retailers can make the most of SA's burgeoning e-commerce market

Joel Bronkowski 10 Jul 2023

MTN launches wind and solar hybrid projects amid load shedding woes

Telecoms & Networks

MTN launches wind and solar hybrid projects amid load shedding woes

8 Jun 2023

Source: © Oleksandr Pidvalnyi The digital switchover process from analogue to digital TV has marooned in Africa

TV

Analogue to digital switchover in Africa process marooned

15 Dec 2022

How we hurdle the final obstacle to explosive online commerce in Africa

Supply Chain

How we hurdle the final obstacle to explosive online commerce in Africa

Issued by AfriGIS 6 Dec 2022

Digital solutions are boosting agriculture in Kenya, but it's time to scale up. Here's how

Agri Tech

Digital solutions are boosting agriculture in Kenya, but it's time to scale up. Here's how

Heike Baumüller and John Kieti 2 Nov 2022

Global tech company ShareIt gears up for expansion in Africa

Digital

Global tech company ShareIt gears up for expansion in Africa

Issued by SHAREit Group 28 Jul 2022

Source: REUTERS.

Trends

Africa's mobile-money taxes risk driving poor out of digital economy

Kent Mensah and Nita Bhalla 2 Jun 2022

Unleashing the transformative power of mobile money

Services

Unleashing the transformative power of mobile money

Ashley Olson Onyango 26 Apr 2022

Algorithms, bots and elections in Africa: how social media influences political choices

Social Media

Algorithms, bots and elections in Africa: how social media influences political choices

Martin N Ndlela 5 Apr 2022

A view of a sign above the entrance of the Google office, ahead of presentation of the detailed investment plan for Germany, in Berlin, Germany, 31 August 2021. Reuters/Annegret Hilse

Internet

Google internet cable lands in Africa, promising fast connection

Sofia Christensen 22 Mar 2022

Music streamers turn to telcos to make Africa pay

Telecoms & Networks

Music streamers turn to telcos to make Africa pay

12 Oct 2021

Modern customer engagement: Keeping up with Gen Y and Z

CRM, CX, UX

Modern customer engagement: Keeping up with Gen Y and Z

Andrew Bourne 13 Sep 2021

Sandy Rheeder, CIO, Mukuru

Financial Services

#WomensMonth: Taking care of the missing 9%

Sandy Rheeder 26 Aug 2021

Dentsu Africa launches Consumer packaged goods like never before

Research

Dentsu Africa launches Consumer packaged goods like never before

Issued by Dentsu 7 May 2021

Solar energy is an invaluable resource in rural areas like this facility in Gambia. Gavi/2018/Guido Dingemans

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Solar technologies can speed up vaccine rollout in Africa. Here's how

Cyrus Sinai & Rob Fetter 23 Mar 2021

Will technology reinvent 'the new normal' in 2021?

Technology

Will technology reinvent 'the new normal' in 2021?

Mohammed Amin 16 Feb 2021

Data scientist Shramik Misra from the Kantar Africa and Middle East analytics team.

Research

#Pamro21: Kantar presented with Best Paper Award

30 Oct 2020

Digital payments holds the power to Africa's development

4th Industrial Revolution

Digital payments holds the power to Africa's development

Murray Gardiner 22 Oct 2020

Why your mobile strategy should be top-of-mind

Mobile & Apps

Why your mobile strategy should be top-of-mind

Nick Durrant 19 Oct 2020

A man makes a payment from his mobile phone for basic food items including bread at a local tuck shop in Epworth, on the outskirts of Harare. Photo by Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images

Fintech

Zimbabwe's restrictions on mobile money transfers are a blow to financial inclusion

Marcia Kwaramba 14 Oct 2020

Orange Campus Africa - new African e-learning platform launches

E-learning

Orange Campus Africa - new African e-learning platform launches

30 Sep 2020

Could the increase in demand for data in Africa be a solution?

Data & Analytics

Could the increase in demand for data in Africa be a solution?

Anthony Okenwa 31 Aug 2020

Kenya's internet balloons could help to bridge the digital divide

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Kenya's internet balloons could help to bridge the digital divide

Nixon Muganda 20 Jul 2020

#YouthMonth: Data prices and education during Covid-19

Data & Analytics

#YouthMonth: Data prices and education during Covid-19

Tasia Matlala 1 Jun 2020

Innovate Now seeks mobile solutions for people with disabilities

ICT

Innovate Now seeks mobile solutions for people with disabilities

21 May 2020

GSMA reveals 'State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money'

Mobile & Apps

GSMA reveals 'State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money'

31 Mar 2020

Data prices remain an obstacle in Africa

Data & Analytics

Data prices remain an obstacle in Africa

Jørgen Arnesen 9 Mar 2020

Fintech

The future of payments in SA and Africa will be based on pragmatism

Peter Harvey 21 Jan 2020

Scanlan presenting at AfricaCom 2019.

AfricaCom

#AfricaCom: How to accelerate digital transformation to 5G the right way

Leigh Andrews 12 Nov 2019

Can Africa overcome these threats to security and stability?

ESG

Can Africa overcome these threats to security and stability?

Pedro Guerreiro 11 Nov 2019

Africa's informal sector can contribute to the formal economy

Marketing

Africa's informal sector can contribute to the formal economy

Laurent Lamothe 18 Oct 2019

Taking a loan has never been easier thanks to the proliferation of mobile lending platforms. Rosenfeld Media/Wikimedia Commons

Banking

Mobile-based lending is huge in Kenya: but there's a downside too

Victor Odundo Owuor 4 Oct 2019

Hyperconnectivity and financial inclusion: Hype vs reality in Africa

Mobile & Apps

Hyperconnectivity and financial inclusion: Hype vs reality in Africa

Murray Gardiner, Issued by Bluecode Africa 27 Sep 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Social Media

WhatsApp revolutionising business communication

25 Sep 2019

Image credit: Hello Paisa.

Mobile

Hello Paisa consumers can now transact on WhatsApp

25 Sep 2019