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in Mobile Money Transfer, Startups, Technology

Africa’s Francophone Countries Launch Mobile Applications Hackathon

It’s no surprise to most Africans that Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria are leading the pack when it comes to developing Africa’s Information, Communication and Technology Sector.  This is especially true in the mobile application sub-sector.  What we haven’t seen much of in the English media are the African Francophone countries participation in this sector [...]

July 10, 2011  |  By Staff Writer  |   |  0 Recommendations

in Industry News, News & Commentary

East Africa Com Conference Will Bring Together 650 Telecom Leaders from Across East Africa

Tomorrow, over 650 telecom leaders from across East Africa will gather in Nairobi at East Africa Com conference (www.comworldseries.com/eafrica).  Their agenda for the 2 days is to establish strategies, set best practice benchmarks and find innovative ways of capitalising on the new networks and services in the fiercely competitive East African market.
Subscription growth remains high in [...]

April 4, 2011  |  By Staff Writer  |   |  0 Recommendations

in Corporate

Zain is Now Officially Airtel

Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, today launched the Airtel brand and unveiled the new brand identity across its 16 African operations.
With the unveiling of the new brand identity Airtel, becomes the master brand for all the group’s 19 operations in Asia [...]

November 22, 2010  |  By Staff Writer  |   |  0 Recommendations

in Corporate

GM Reorganizes Africa Operations to Capitalize on Growing Opportunities

General Motors announced today the restructuring of its business in Africa to capitalize on growing opportunities across the continent. Effective January 1, 2011, GM’s operations in Africa will be split into two sub-regions.
GM North Africa will include Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania. These countries will be integrated with GM Egypt under the [...]

November 22, 2010  |  By Staff Writer  |  2  |  0 Recommendations

in Conferences, Events

Business Summit Netherlands - Africa

The Business Summit Netherlands-Africa is the most prestigious Dutch conference on doing business in Africa in 2010. The Summit will cover Africa from the broad picture to specific industry insights, from the latest trends to the keys to success in African markets, from government to business. Invest one day to inspire [...]

November 2, 2010  |  By Staff Writer  |   |  0 Recommendations

in Tourism

South Africa and Kenya Ranked the Most Popular Destinations

According to research carried out by the Year Out Group the most popular gap year destinations are shifting, due in part to the number of people taking a career break, and also because of a shift in terms of what people now want from a gap year.
A gap year is an extended break that some [...]

October 14, 2010  |  By Staff Writer  |  1  |  0 Recommendations

in Banking, News & Commentary

Citigroup Signals New Strategy for Expansion into Africa

Citigroup has given its strongest signal yet that Africa could feature in its global expansion strategy through acquisitions on the continent.  The acquisitions would help build its transaction services business in Africa once the U.S. government has sold off its stake in the bank.
Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi, Citigroup’s chief executive officer of global transaction [...]

October 11, 2010  |  By Staff Writer  |  1  |  1 Recommendations

in News & Commentary

World Bank to Livestream Africa-Related Events During Annual Meetings

The World Bank will livestream two Africa-related events during this week’s Annual Meetings: ‘Eliminating the Budget Execution Deficit’ and ‘Can Africa Trade with Africa?’ On Thursday, October 7th (1:00pm-3:00pm EST) (Execution Deficit) and Friday, October 8th (12:00pm-1:30pm EST) (Trade), the events can be watched LIVE on www.livestream.com/WorldBankAfrica.
‘Eliminating the Budget Execution Deficit’ will examine how African [...]

October 5, 2010  |  By Staff Writer  |   |  0 Recommendations

in News & Commentary

Qualcomm Opens Office in West Africa

Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the opening of a Lagos office by QCOM Wireless Technologies Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary, to serve as the Company’s hub for West Africa business operations. The office will provide support to mobile operators and device manufacturers serving countries throughout the region, including Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon.Commenting on the [...]

October 3, 2010  |  By Staff Writer  |  1  |  0 Recommendations

in Experts, News & Commentary

Technological Convergence: A television in the palm of every African

About a year ago, Safaricom, the Kenyan mobile services company, DStv an African cable television provider and Nokia announced the launch of a new service to avail some DStv channels on specific Nokia handsets in Kenya. The announcement certainly did not elicit much excitement, initially. Then came the first Africa-hosted World Cup and suddenly one [...]

August 5, 2010  |  By Alex Twinomugisha  |  3  |  0 Recommendations