4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (491+ words) Liquid Intelligent Technologies Kenya says the continent's data-centre capacity is becoming a major concern for African telecom executives, as the Cassava Technologies-owned operator pushes deeper into AI and cloud services. Africa accounts for just 0.6% of the world's data-centre capacity, Liquid…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (320+ words) Vodafone Business, Elsewedy Electric and Cassava Technologies have partnered to establish Africa Data Centres Egypt, a project with targeted capacity of 200MW and total investment of up to $1 billion. The project will initially provide 20MW of capacity over its first three years,…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (143+ words) ITWeb Africa Safaricom Ethiopia has built more than 3,500 network sites since receiving its licence, extending coverage to about 60% of Ethiopia's population. All its sites are 4G-enabled and 5G-ready. "This represents one of the fastest network rollouts by a greenfield telecom…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (459+ words) Almost 85% of experienced Brazilian punters bet almost exclusively in frequent, small-stake, live in-play wagers. South African bettors move the other way: fewer bets, higher stakes, and spaced further apart. That difference in behaviour is the starting point for joint research…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (315+ words) Tallinn-based regulatory technology company Instarc has secured a €1.25 million strategic investment led by HFO Investments to accelerate the commercial rollout of its cloud-native compliance platform in South Africa. HFO Investments, advised by Athena Capital and Option 3 Capital, has joined Instarc…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (472+ words) African small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are facing growing cybersecurity risks, with password-stealing attacks reportedly rising by 51% over the past year, according to research from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. The increase comes as 82% of SMBs in the Middle East, Türkiye and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (275+ words) Japan is exploring stronger digital and innovation ties with Malawi following discussions between officials from the two countries. Naito Yasushi, ambassador of Japan to Malawi, met Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority director general Dr Mayamiko Nkoloma and a Japanese team led…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (397+ words) Egypt is expanding efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity capabilities within its judiciary through a new cooperation agreement between the National Telecommunications Institute (NTI) and the State Lawsuits Authority. According to Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (90+ words) "Self-checkout will never work here in southern Africa." We've heard it more times than we can count. So instead of debating it, Arch Retail checked the numbers. The results tell a very different story than the sceptics expect – lower checkout…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (314+ words) Digicloud Africa, Google’s enablement partner in Africa and the exclusive distributor of Google Security Operations (SecOps) across Africa, is actively recruiting new partners to take advantage of the ‘massive’ Google SecOps opportunity. Chris Richardson, Head of Cloud Strategy at Digicloud…...