Thu, November 14th, 08:30 · Brandon Gregory
Data consumption via mobile is exploding and Arun Nagar, group chief executive officer (CEO) of Spice Africa, spoke about the drivers of data usage through content services in his presentation at AfricaCom 2013 in Cape Town. → Read more
Thu, November 14th, 08:00 · Paul Adepoju
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has made the case for the setting up and licensing of infrastructure companies (InfraCos), in a bid to accelerate deployment of of the National Broadband Network (NBN) Deployment plan. → Read more
Thu, November 14th, 07:00 · Selipha Kihagi
The African Development Bank (AFDB) has introduced a new web consultation platform to discuss its new governance strategy for 2014-2018, aimed at receiving feedback from its stakeholders on their expectations on the bank’s future governance. → Read more
Thu, November 14th, 07:00 · Winfred Kuria
MTN Group has extended its deal with Opera Software to provide a custom version of the Opera Mini mobile browser for another two years. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 20:00 · Nick Sato
Vendor-neutral data provider Teraco has announced it has has started construction on a third dedicated colocation data centre within Great Westerford, Cape Town, in a bid to counter strong demand for “collocation” services. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 18:00 · Nick Sato
MTN Group has partnered with Visa to offer customers a new mobile payment solution which allows MTN Mobile Money subscribers make face-to-face and online transactions wherever Visa is accepted. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 17:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Angola is planning construction of a 6,000km undersea cable connection with South America that will offer direct and quicker connection between its stock market and those in Brazil and Hong Kong, as well as helping it to become a regional telecommunications hub. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 16:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
New models are needed to move advertising into the mobile space, to achieve monetisation of mobile content and spur digital content creation, according to panelists at AfricaCom 2013. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 14:30 · Brandon Gregory
With more than 167 million internet users in Africa and with 54 per cent of them accessing the internet via mobile phones, it is important to promote and distribute music online. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 13:30 · Richard Cutcher
Howard Charney, senior vice president at Cisco, believes it is a “tough” fact of life that Africa will always be last to witness hi-tech and telecommunications innovation, but that does not mean it will never see the advantages. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 13:00 · Kamau Mbote
Kenyan job recruiting platform DUMA Works has won a Rockefeller Foundation grant, bagging US$100,000. HumanIPO spoke to co-founder Arielle Sandor on what plans the Nairobi startup had with the money. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 12:31 · Richard Cutcher
Cameroon could get its first LTE network in the first quarter of 2014, after data-only specialists YooMee announced a partnership with global vendor Alcatel-Lucent. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 11:00 · Brandon Gregory
In Africa 59 per cent of music is consumed digitally and 0.2 per cent of music consumption on the continent exists on mobile phones, according to Atul Madan, vice president of mobile lifestyle solutions at Mahindra Comviva, an India-based mobile solutions company. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 09:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Discover Your Career (DYC) has launched an online assessment platform that seeks to bridge the gap for people seeking to find the job they are best suited for. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 08:00 · Nick Sato
OnMobile, a global telecom value-added services (VAS) company, has partnered with Airtel Africa to offer subscribers live match alerts and updates on games of their favourite English Premier League teams. → Read more
Wed, November 13th, 07:00 · Paul Adepoju
VConnect, the largest search engine in Africa, has been judged the Best Mobile Information Management Product at the eighth edition of the Records and Information Management Awareness (RIMA) Awards. → Read more
Tue, November 12th, 20:00 · Brandon Gregory
Approximately US$14.4 trillion can be realised through all the new types of connections brought about by the Internet of everything (IoE), according to Howard Charney, senior vice president of Cisco. → Read more
Tue, November 12th, 19:30 · Nick Sato
The upgrade of the automated trading systems at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and the Central Depository and Settlement Corporation (CDSC) is underway as it seeks a more robust platform to support planned diversification of new securities. → Read more
Tue, November 12th, 19:00 · Brandon Gregory
Axel Bringéus, head of new markets for Spotify, has given no target date as to when the popular music streaming service will launch in Africa. → Read more
Tue, November 12th, 18:30 · Kamau Mbote
The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) under the Strathmore Law School, in Kenya, has filed a petition against the ratification of the African Union Convention on Cyberspace (AUCC). → Read more
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