Opera Releases SA Specific Browser
Users of Opera Software in South Africa can now download version 12.10 of the desktop browser specifically built for them. Designed with Speed Dials the 12.10 version for desktop...
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Saturday, January 23, 2021
Firms In SA Shift To Biometric-Based Security To Beat Crime
Teryl Schroenn, CEO of Accsys. In a market in which as much as 25 percent of the population unemployed, the issue of crime perpetuated against business...
Read moreTeleCommuication Sytems Launches in Africa With New Sales Office in SA
TeleCommunication Systems, a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology has opened a new Africa sales office located in Johannesburg, South Africa as the firm's marketing and...
Read moreAfrica Is Now Second Most Connected Continent, Mobile Subscriptions To Hit 1B In 2016
Image Source:newsimg.bbc.co.uk New research by Informa Telecoms & Media reports that Africa is now the second most connected region globally in terms of mobile subscribers compared...
Read moreGoogle’s Wazi Wi-Fi To Help Improve Data Uptake Across East Africa
Google and Wananchi Group (K) Ltd Wazi Wi-Fi move to install high-speed, publicly-accessible internet hotspots is set to get more people utilise internet as it spreads across the country from...
Read moreFOXit Takes Top Honours At Microsoft Partner Awards
Mike Fox Martin, CEO at FOXit (left) FOXit (Pty) Ltd, an Independent Software Vendor and Microsoft-certified Gold Partner across numerous competencies within the Microsoft Partner Network,...
Read moreQ-KON Hosts Africa’s First Sonus-NET Certified UX Training In SA
Tjaart de Wet, MD at Q-KON SA Q-KON, an established provider of managed satellite services and a distributor of niche products to the growing African telecommunications...
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Refer A Friend Or Apply For A Job & Earn Bounties I Interview With Greg Schneider CEO Hiring Bounty
A new startup launched in July in South Africa is changing the way firms hire totally! Hiring Bounty wants you to earn bounties as you refer someone or apply for...
Read moreSA’s Telkom Group Director Quits, CEO Hands In Resignation Notice As Firm Changes Board
Image Credit:iol.co.za Ms Nombulelo Moholi today announced her intention to step down as Telkom Chief Executive Officer,even before her contract at the group expires. Moholi gave...
Read moreUniversity Student From Kenya Launches Echorest, To Help Find Deals Near You
Okii Eli, a freelance tech blogger and university student at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology and three others launched Echorest, a startup that enables one to buy...
Read moreVodafone’s M-Pesa Team Up With HomeSend To Sign Up More Communities To International Money Transfers
This November Vodafone is linking up its M-Pesa to HomeSend ,a person to person global money transfer hub in a move that will see Tanzania M-Pesa users transact through an...
Read moreAcumen Fund and Dow Chemicals Join Hands To Improve Social Enterprises in East & West Africa
Image:Guidstar.org Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund addressing poverty across Africa and South Asia, and The Dow Chemical Company announced a collaboration to scale...
Read moreIntegr8 Group’s Integr8 IT Acquired By BCX For US$ 14m
In a major development within the domestic ICT services space, ICT infrastructure management and managed services specialist firm Integr8 IT, part of the Integr8 Group, has been acquired by Business...
Read moreA 19 Year Old UNILAG Student Builds Hipingg, A New Photo Sharing Social Network
At just 19, Prudence Okoilu, a Physics and Electronics student at University of Lagos (UNILAG) is the CEO of Hipingg , a photo sharing social network he founded in December...
Read moreInfosys To Up Ethiopia’s Bunna International Bank Sytems
Image Credit:cpidubai.com Ethiopia's Bunna International Bank Thursday selected Infosys' FinacleTM core banking solution to help integrate the bank's front and back office operations and start a...
Read moreEgypt’s Qabila TV Puts The Country in the Limelight Even Before The Silicon Valley Pitch
Egypt's Qabila TV, a new-media production company based in Cairo has put the country in the limelight already even before it pitches at Silicon Valley with other four DEMO Africa...
Read moreSegun Ogunsanya Is Now Chief Executive Officer Airtel Nigeria
Image Source: rr.co.ke World's number four telecommunications services provider Bharti Airtel with operations in more than 18 countries across Asia and Africa on Friday appointed...
Read moreZim’s Telecel Launches A 100% Bonus On Airtime Purchase, Denies US$ 340,000 Trumbelt Partnership
Zimbabwe Telecel is giving its clients 100 percent bonus on purchase of any airtime denomination and even giving free SMS' messages at a purchase of airtime worth just $2 effective...
Read moreAU To Send Volunteers To Startups Founded & Run By Youth Across Africa
The African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC) has introduced support to startups run by youth in a move to promote PanAfricanism and an enterprenuerial spirit among young Africans. According to...
Read moreAndroid Smartphone OS Celebrates 4th Anniversary With 75 Percent Market Share
Image:Techdrivein.com A new report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that Android had a 75 percent lead in smartphone phone OS of all the...
Read moreLinkedIn Makes $ 2.3m Net Income & An 81 Percent Increase in Total Revenue In Its Third Quarter
World's largest online professional network LinkedIn is making headway in business after reporting a $252 million revenue, an 81 percent increase in its third quarter ended September 2012 compared to...
Read moreMobile Decisioning Africa Limited Wins The IBM SmartCamp South Africa League
Mobile Decisioning (MoDe) is the proud winner of the SA Kickstart event beating three others in an event staged in Africa for the first time. MoDe was launched two years...
Read moreMicrosoft Honours SA’s Integr8 As Its 2012 Mid-Market Solution Provider
Jacques Watermeyer, Chief Technology Officer, Bennie Strydom, Chief Sales Officer and Eugene du Toit, Solutions Architect: Integr8 IT Consulting receiving the award The Integr8 Group,...
Read moreDevelopers In Kenya Move To Beat Freelancer.com I Interview With The CEO Fortis-IT
Image:www.itrelease.com A new web portal dubbed Creatives and Coders is launching next week to help freelance designers and developers get jobs quickly and allow them...
Read moreZunguZ Partners With S.W.E.A.T. 1000 To Sale Fitness Vouchers Online
ZunguZ, a multi-tier mobile payment platform and established offering connected to Facebook, now offers consumers a way to keep in shape and do so through the convenience of S.W.E.A.T....
Read moreIntegr8 Speeds Up Delivery Of Power ICT Services To Gearhouse SA
tpsa.co.za THE SITUATION Gearhouse South Africa, a leading technical supplier to the live event industry in South Africa, has joined an exclusive group of companies that...
Read moreUniversity Students From Rwanda Launch WeGo, Expect to Replace Google Maps in Africa
Image Credit: Googleblog.blogspot.com GO LTD, a startup founded by university students based in Rwanda is finalising development of a mobile web and SMS app to ...
Read moreAccsys Putting Women in SA on Top of Business
Teryl Schroenn, CEO of Accsys Accsys, a member of the Business Connexion Group (BCX), has received an award for being one of The Top Gender Empowered...
Read moreThe Mobile App Mugabe Loves
A data visualisation app for iPhone and iPad has been used to present the results of South Africa’s national census to the media. The app, by US-based Roambi, was used...
Read moreiROKING Partners With GoMetro To Take Music Mobile To All Commuters in SA
Brand new mobile partnership to bring iROKING artists to South Africa commuters – anytime, anywhere iROKO Partners, the world’s largest online distributor of African music & movies today announced an...
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