The Kenyan government has launched a new drive to have digital centres that will provide information and help on various issues in all the 47 counties.
According to the government, the centres will be fully equipped with state of the...
Mobile financial and VAS solutions provider, Mahindra Comviva, has today said its mobiquity® mobile financial services platform has been awarded the best Mobile Banking Technology award by World Finance Technology Awards 2013 held in London.
According to Srinivas Nidugondi, Head...
The ministry of Finance in Uganda has received a directive from the government, ordering them to revise a law regulating financial institutions to include Islamic banking and mobile money transactions which are proving to be ever more popular. This...
SkyVision Global Networks Ltd, a leading global provider of IP connectivity over satellite and fiber optic systems has installed private satellite network solution for 97 branches of UNACOOPEC-CI (National Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives).
UNACOOPEC is Côte d’Ivoire largest...
Ster-Kinekor, a South African film chain today announced that it has started converting all 438 of its cinemas to the latest digital technology.
Ster Kinekor was founded in 1969 when 20th Century Fox sold its South African theatre business to...
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder has launched 'Wikileaks Party' in his bid for an Australian senate seat.
Speaking via a videolink from the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been granted asylum over rape charges in Sweden, Mr Assange...
Earlier this year, Quintica, added to the list of companies that are making Cape Town, an extended home.
Quintica, a Pan-African ICT specialist company, offers integrated services and technology solutions into the enterprise and MobileNetwork Operator markets.
The move to the...
Online one-stop-shop  Fargo Shopping recently launched in Kenya, causing worries among small and up coming online ordering and delivery start-ups.
What was scary is that Fargo Shopping has its disposal a nationwide network of over 70 delivery centers and over...
US President Barack Obama today announced Power Africa, a new initiative expected to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa, a continent where over two-thirds of the population have no access to grid electricity.
According to Obama, in a statement...
Zimbabwean company Econet Wireless seeks to open a shop in Hillbrow Johannesburg with an intention to serve Zimbabwean clients living in South Africa.
Last year, Econet Wireless together with its South African counterpart, MVNO Econet Wireless South Africa, offered a...
MobiSure, a mobile medical insurance targeting the poor offering medical insurance cover where customers buy daily cover through their mobile phones as airtime is set to partner with small private hospitals, clinics and leading hospitals and hospital chains as...
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Ghana to introduce biometric identity cards which will be issued instantly at the point of registration to subscribers.
NHIS will start on piloting electronic claims (E-claims) processing and host an extended stakeholder review of...