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Mon, February 17th, 14:20 · Paul Adepoju
Broadband the major challenge in Nigeria, not payments – Njoku
Jason Njoku, founder of iROKO, has identified the speed and cost of broadband as the major challenge the company is battling in Nigeria. → Read more
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Mon, February 17th, 11:00 · Chris Udemans
Kickstarter site hacked
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has announced its website has been hacked, though it assures users no credit card data was compromised. → Read more
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Mon, February 17th, 10:20 · Tom Jackson
Dark Fibre Africa acquiring CONDUCT
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is set to acquire South Africa-based CONDUCT as it looks to overcome the last mile barrier and provide South African enterprises with easy access to fibre connectivity. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 19:00 · Tom Jackson
ZACR appoints new CEO
The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) has appointed a new chief executive officer (CEO) as it aims to accelerate transformation within the South African Domain Name System (DNS) industry. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 18:20 · Chris Udemans
Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered
A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 10 targeting an Americans war veterans website has been discovered by internet security company FireEye. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 15:00 · Tom Jackson
AccessKenya acquires additional SEACOM capacity
Kenyan internet and IT solutions provider AccessKenya Group has acquired additional international broadband capacity on the SEACOM undersea cable to support its growth plans. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 14:20 · Chris Udemans
Standard Bank Bitcoin platform will not be made public
South Africa’s Standard Bank has said it is not planning to make a Bitcoin trading platform it has been piloting internally available to the public. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
Zambia to train 6,000 nurses via e-learning, citizens pessimistic
Zambia’s minister for health Dr Joseph Kasonde has announced plans to enroll and train 6,000 nurses in the next five years through e-learning. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 05:00 · Chris Udemans
Motorola Mobility CEO moving to Dropbox – report
Cloud solutions provider Dropbox plans to name Dennis Woodside, chief executive officer (CEO) of Motorola Mobility, as its first chief operating officer (COO), according to a report. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 15:00 · Tom Jackson
New CEO shakes up SEACOM management
Returning SEACOM chief executive officer (CEO) Brian Herlihy has unveiled a new senior management structure at the pan-African undersea cable operator, which the company said is designed to cater for its growth plans. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 14:20 · Chris Udemans
Kenya’s Nakuru County gets free Wi-Fi
Kenya’s Nakuru County will be receiving free Wi-Fi for up to a month as part of a partnership between the Nakuru County government, the State House’s Department of Communications and Infonet Africa. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 13:40 · Chris Udemans
Standard Bank piloting Bitcoin trading platform
South Africa’s Standard Bank has set up an experimental internal Bitcoin trading platform, according to a presentation given at the 2014 Finovation Europe conference in London. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 13:00 · Chris Udemans
Online banking, mobile OS malware rising
Online banking and mobile operating system (OS) malware saw a marked increase during 2013, according to a TrendLabs study. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 12:20 · Susan Mwenesi
ZTE courts Kenyan government on cloud, LTE technology
China’s ZTE Corporation is currently in talks with the Kenyan government in an effort to provide the latter with cloud computing and LTE services geared towards effective service delivery. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 08:00 · Paul Adepoju
Q&A: Oluwajoba Oloba, head of projects and partnerships, Tutor.ng
Tutor.ng is one of the latest entrants into Nigeria’s rapidly expanding online education sector. Oluwajoba Oloba, an attorney and Tutor.ng’s head of projects and partnerships, spoke to HumanIPO about the platform, the sector and other related matters. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 06:00 · Chris Udemans
Bitcoin hit by DoS attacks
A number of Bitcoin exchanges have temporarily suspended operations after a series of denial of service (DoS) attacks taking advantage of Bitcoin’s transaction malleability and relaying mutated versions of transactions. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 20:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Internet Solutions buys stake in Antfarm
South African internet service provider (ISP) Internet Solutions has acquired a “significant stake” in local streaming media service provider Antfarm, in a bid to prepare for the boom in online video content. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 16:20 · Paul Adepoju
A4AI’s first in-country engagement held in Accra
Ghana’s capital city Accra has hosted the first in-country engagement meeting of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), focused on how to drive down the cost of internet access in Ghana and uniting diverse players such as policy makers, technology pioneers, civil society groups, campaigners and researchers. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 13:40 · Tom Jackson
MoboFree receives funding from eVA Fund
West African classifieds platform MoboFree has obtained funding from Netherlands-based eVentures Africa (eVA) Fund in order to expand its presence in Nigeria and Ghana, start new offices in East Africa and invest in marketing. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 09:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigerians are ready for online education – Tutor.ng
Nigeria’s status as the biggest online population in Africa means it is ready for online education, particularly given the success of e-commerce in the country, according to Oluwajoba Oloba, head of projects and partnerships at Nigerian online learning platform Tutor.ng. → Read more
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