Number of Voice Assistant Devices in Use to Overtake World Population by 2024

Consumers will interact with voice assistants on over 8.4 billion devices by 2024; overtaking the world’s population and growing 113%…

Facebook Introduces Messenger Rooms to Connect During COVID-19 Lockdown

Following the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook decided to introduce new products that make it easier to spend…

Ghanaian startup FastRx Launches COVID-19 Self-Checker, Contact Tracing Platforms

Ghanaian on-demand pharmacy platform FastRx has launched self-checker and contract tracing platforms to help check the spread of the COVID-19…

About 100,000 Africa Developers to Acquire Mobile Technologies and Cloud Platform Skills from Google

Google is helping to empower 100,000 African developers with access to high-quality, world-class training on mobile technologies and Cloud platforms.…

AUDA-NEPAD and Ecobank Group to Establish Continental Framework for African Micro-Small-Medium Enterprises

AUDA-NEPAD Chief Executive Officer Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki and Ecobank Group Chief Executive Officer Mr Ade Ayeyemi have agreed to…

Dangote Group, SAP Collaborate on Digital Transformation in Record Time

With two of the continent’s most ambitious industrial projects underway, Nigeria’s Dangote Group has achieved the seemingly-impossible with an SAP-led…

Payments Company Paga Joins China-based Ping a Cloud Accelerator

Payments company Paga has been selected for the Ping A Cloud Accelerator programme in Shenzhen, China, gaining the chance to…

Tourism and Technology Summit 2020 Date Postpone

Following the further extension of the lockdown across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organisers of the Tourism…

MTN Top Brass Take Salary Cuts for COVID-19 Fund

MTN Group, Africa’s biggest mobile operator by subscribers, today announced details of its $1.3 million relief package in response to…

Digital Health Vulnerability Amid the Coronavirus Crisis

Long before the global Coronavirus pandemic disrupted life as we know it, digital health was on the ascent, enabled by…