The first edition of the InterswitchSPAK National Science Quiz Competition, an initiative of Interswitch Group, a leading Pan-African electronic payment and digital commerce company, is set to debut on television stations across Africa on October 27th, 2018. The Quiz competition, which is part of the InterswitchSPAK, Switch-a-Future project, will be premiered on DSTV’s Africa Magic […]
Read MoreToday, Oracle welcomes more than 60,000 customers and partners from 175 countries and 19 million virtual attendees to Oracle OpenWorld 2018, the world’s most innovative cloud technology conference. At the annual event, Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison will talk about the latest-and-greatest technologies being incorporated into Oracle’s next-generation […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world’s biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, his family said. Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company became a corporate juggernaut, following a dispute with Gates, but […]
Read MoreRevenues generated by the use of MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service) platforms, which integrate multi-modal transport services (including buses, taxis, rail and metro), will exceed $11 billion by 2023. This is up from an estimated $100 million in 2018 and is an average annual growth of 156%. For more insights, download the free whitepaper: Why Mobility-as-a-Service is the […]
Read MoreLast night in Lagos, South West Nigeria, at the Nigeria Mobile Economy Summit and Expo, (NiMES) it was lots of encomium for the just retired Director of Public Affairs, Nigeria Communications Commission, (NCC), Mr. Tony Ojobo who was named the recipient of the ICON of African Information Society Merit award. Much of the encomium came […]
Read MoreU.S. software giant Microsoft is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $7.5 billion purchase of privately held coding website GitHub, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday. Microsoft announced the deal in June, its largest acquisition since it bought LinkedIn for $26 billion in 2016. The GitHub deal is expected […]
Read MoreLondon’s High Court on Monday blocked an attempt to bring legal action against Alphabet Inc’s Google over claims it had collected sensitive data from more than 4 million iPhone users although it said the company’s actions had been “wrongful”. The claimants had said Google had illegally accessed details of iPhone users’ internet browsing data by […]
Read MoreFacebook Inc. wants you to buy its new video chat devices for your home, complete with cameras that track movement. That sounds like a lot to ask for a social-media company mired in privacy scandals. But Facebook has crafted its Portal gadgets, launched Monday, to be as un-creepy as possible. At a recent product demonstration […]
Read MoreThe need for investing in Cryptocurrency is steadily rising in East Africa; specifically Kenya as more and more people are gradually gaining trust/confidence in the use of Cryptocurrency. Though Cryptocurrency is relatively new and comes with a learning curve, the benefits are a plethora; thus it is good for both sellers and buyers. Cryptocurrency offers […]
Read MoreSunnet Systems and Datacom Service Limited, a Huawei top-level strategic partner has brought into the Nigeria server market a game-changer server with capacity for partitioning to any level. The server, known as Huawei Kunlun Server which was launched today in Lagos, South-West Nigeria is said to be adequately designed by Huawei Technology Company to meet […]
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