Egypt | HumanIPO

Egypt, Page 2

Fri, May 9th, 15:00 · Paul Adepoju

Egypt approves $426m Maadi Technology Park

The Egyptian government has approved the EGP3 billion (US$426 million) Maadi Technology Park for ICT services, with the investment phase of the project to be launched in the second quarter of 2014. → Read more
Fri, May 9th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju

ICT sector to create 1m jobs in Egypt by 2020 – minister

The ICT sector in Egypt will create a total of one million jobs by 2020, including 200,000 direct job opportunities, according to Atef Helmy, the country’s minister of communications and information technology. → Read more
Mon, April 28th, 15:00 · Gabriella Mulligan

Mauritius leads Africa in using ICT for development – WEF

Mauritius leads Africa in terms of leveraging ICT for economic and social development, ranking 48th in the world in the 2014 World Economic Forum (WEF) Networked Readiness Index. → Read more
Thu, April 17th, 16:00 · Paul Adepoju

Economic woes force Intel to close down Egypt office

Intel has announced it is closing its Egyptian office due to economic woes, denying it was influenced by the political situation in the country and saying it remains committed to the Egyptian market. → Read more
Thu, April 17th, 10:00 · Gabriella Mulligan

Egypt’s political turmoil not a hindrance – BEE

Political instability in Egypt over recent years has not impacted negatively on mobile usage or payments, although frequent changes in governments have delayed new deals, according to mobile payments solutions firm BEE. → Read more
Fri, April 4th, 14:00 · Chris Udemans

Telecom Egypt issued mobile licence

Fixed line incumbent Telecom Egypt has been issued a licence by the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), enabling it to provide mobile services to residents of the country. → Read more
Tue, March 18th, 16:30 · Tom Jackson

GrEEK Campus provides home to Cairo tech community

Egypt’s first technology and innovation park the GrEEK campus is offering state-of-the-art office space for startups and more established firms in the capital Cairo, with 22 firms already working from the site → Read more
Tue, March 11th, 08:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Huawei wins Vodafone contract for network enhancement

Huawei has been awarded a five-year contract by Vodafone to expand its Radio Access Network (SingleRAN) across 15 countries, including six African countries, in a project intended to strengthen Vodafone network coverage and improve operations across the participating regions. → Read more
Thu, March 6th, 12:20 · Agatha Nduku

Vodafone concerned over Egypt unified licence plans – report

Vodafone has said it could consider international arbitration should the Egyptian government approve legislation under which fixed line incumbent Telecom Egypt (TE) will gain access to the country’s mobile networks. → Read more
Wed, March 5th, 10:20 · Agatha Nduku

RateAfrika launches as an MVP

Pan-African startup RateAfrika, an online business platform where people can find and rate businesses and services, has launched as a minimum viable product (MVP), and will be introducing a free online booking system to over 1,000 restaurants in South Africa tomorrow (March 5). → Read more
Mon, March 3rd, 15:00 · Paul Adepoju

Arab Spring was an historic period in social media – Femi Oke

Femi Oke, journalist and host of Al Jazeera’s social media show “The Stream”, has described the Arab Spring in 2011 as a historic period in social media. → Read more
Mon, March 3rd, 06:00 · Gabriella Mulligan

Egyptian film nominated for Oscar, unavailable in Egypt

Egyptian film “The Square”, named after the infamous Tahrir Square which has been the centrepoint of anti-government protests over recent years, has been nominated for an Oscar, although the film is not available to watch in Egypt. → Read more
Thu, February 27th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju

30 cities to host #FreeAJStaff events

Thirty cities across the world will today host events in support of detained Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt, which the media organisation hopes will pressure the Egyptian authorities to hasten the release of Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Abdullah El Shamy. → Read more
Mon, February 10th, 16:20 · Gabriella Mulligan

Telecom Egypt to receive $12.5m damages over cut cables

Telecom Egypt has signed a US$12.535 million deal in full and final settlement for the damage to two submarine cables last year by the ship known as “B-Elephant”. → Read more
Thu, January 30th, 13:40 · Chris Udemans

Telecom Egypt to provide new city with fibre connectivity

Telecom Egypt (TE) has signed a deal to provide Egypt’s newly designed Madinaty city with a fibre optic network, increasing connectivity in the area. → Read more
Wed, January 29th, 19:00 · Gabriella Mulligan

Real estate consortium launches listings platform in Egypt

A consortium of Egyptian real estate developers and brokers have partnered to launch the country’s first comprehensive real estate listings platform, No Corner. → Read more
Tue, January 14th, 15:00 · Gabriella Mulligan

Mobile monitoring app used in Egyptian referendum

A team of international observers monitoring the voting process in the Egyptian constitutional referendum currently underway is using mobile data gathering application Formhub for the first time, allowing the collection of real-time data from members of the team. → Read more
Wed, January 8th, 14:20 · Gabriella Mulligan

Egypt, SA internet speeds slower than promised

Internet users in Egypt and South Africa are among those receiving much slower internet than that promised in the subscriptions they pay for, according to a new report. → Read more
Tue, January 7th, 07:00 · Tom Jackson

MEA external storage market declines, SA and Egypt badly hit

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) external storage market declined 8.8 per cent year-on-year during the third quarter of 2013, according to the latest figures from International Data Corporation (IDC), with particularly large declines in South Africa and Egypt. → Read more
Fri, December 20th, 13:00 · Selipha Kihagi

Google snubs SA agency’s request to remove blog post

The Counter Intelligence Agency of South Africa submitted a request to Google asking it to remove a blog post which it said was infringing copyright by criticising a media release the agency had issued. → Read more