The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) and the Chinese company Huawei have collaborated in a bid to advance cyber security skills in the East African country. Director-General of the CA, Ezra Chiloba, revealed this in the country’s capital, Nairobi. He said the three-day intensive training session scheduled to hold between Oct. 17-19 is one of […]

Seclore, a data-centric security platform, has reached a strategic partnership with Tech First Gulf (TFG), an IT infrastructure and Cybersecurity Value Add Distributor, to deliver protection over the digital asset for Africa’s most prominent businesses. This development is geared against continuously escalating incidences of cyber threats and assaults, which have ravaged over 40% of African […]

HP Inc., a multinational information technology company, has announced enhancements to its HP Wolf Security endpoint protection portfolio through the launch of Sure Access Enterprise (SAE), which protects users with the right to access sensitive data, systems, and applications.   SAE safeguards against attackers from hijacking these privileged sessions; regardless of whether the users’ endpoint device […]

What is Cash App? Cash App, formerly known as Square Cash, is a mobile payment service available in the United States and the United Kingdom that allows users to transfer money to one another (for a 1.5% fee for immediate transfer) using a mobile phone app. In January 2018, Cash App added support for bitcoin […]

Making the switch to ChromeOS can provide IT with the opportunity to change the organization’s devices into a fleet that offers higher performance at a cheaper cost, along with enhanced security and management capabilities. According to Nick Treurnicht, a Google-certified professional collaboration engineer and G Suite deployment specialist at Digicloud Africa, Chrome OS is no […]

Vezeeta, an Egyptian healthcare platform that lets people make appointments with doctors and order services online or at home, has raised new money to buy other companies and expand in the Middle East and Africa. The company raised a Series D funding round of $40 million in February 2020. Gulf Capital, based in Abu Dhabi, […]

Researchers at Meta Inc., a company specialising in information security, have found over 400 “scammy apps” on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store designed to steal users’ Facebook login information. The team at Meta acknowledged that these applications often require users to “Log In with Facebook” before accessing certain functionalities. According to […]

On 11th October 2022, Alibaba signed on well over 360 African entrepreneurs for its Netpreneur Training program at a virtual opening ceremony. The launch of the second class of Netpreneur comes after the success of the inaugural class, which graduated 70 African participants last October. The four weeks masterclass will run from October 11 to […]

South Africa’s venture capital (VC) industry continues to expand and develop steadily with early-stage fund managers contributing R1.31 billion to 121 organizations through 186 investment rounds. The Southern African Venture Capital Association (SAVCA) has recently published its 2022 Venture Capital Industry Survey. This report examines equity investments in new and developing enterprises for the year […]

By March of next year, Sony Group Corp. hopes to have made 2 million PlayStation VR2 headsets. A reliable source says that the optimistic prediction goes against how the world economy is doing now.  A source who didn’t want to be named said that supply chain problems have made it harder to get goggles since […]

This past weekend, Disney+ announced at Comic Con Africa about The Walt Disney Company’s streaming service, Disney+, which will have its app built into Xbox platforms. It is now official that September 29th 2022, will be the day South Africa can get their hands on the Xbox version of Disney+. People in South Africa have been […]

The Computer Security Incident Response Team of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC-CSIRT) has advised users of the video telephony platform Zoom to install the latest version of the software, which can be obtained from the app’s publisher, following the discovery of vulnerabilities that remote attackers can exploit. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) found […]

Exits.me, a platform for fintech and investment banking in Egypt, has completed a Pre-Seed round and raised $1 million. Exits provided this round of funding. Based in the United Kingdom, an influential Egyptian angel investor organisation, Baseeta Investments Holding and Mawelni Holding for Financial Investments, and the company’s founders. PIE, a mergers and acquisitions firm […]

Liquid Networks, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, announced the launch of its Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Secure offering to its customers. The solution is made to stop attacks before they happen by cleaning traffic and blocking known attackers or traffic that is known to be bad. According to Ahmad Mokhles, […]

South African mobile payments startup Zapper collaborates with payments and data API fintech Stitch (via LinkPay—a one-click payments solution) to enable Zapper users to send instant electronic funds transfer (ETF) payments with just one click. Zapper was one of the first companies to offer mobile payments in South Africa. It now lets businesses of all […]

Samsung Heavy Industries has appointed Jaebum Kim as the new CEO of its fabrication & integration yard in Lagos. Mr. Kim succeeds Mr. Dong Seong Suh who after 5 years and 10 months of hard and satisfying work in Nigeria is returning to Korea in order to continue his career within Samsung Heavy Industries. Mr. […]