Sap Launches Smart Academy In Nigeria

The project is aimed at promoting skills development on the continent and in alignment with SAP’s Skills for Africa programme. According to Vanguard, the Academy situated in many states across the nation including Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt is expected to enable a large number of skilled young people to boost their labor market relevance through specialized SAP technology skills training. As a product of SAP Education Africa, the SAP Smart Academy courses have been designed to help students learn how to effectively leverage the power of SAP technology solutions and drive greater proficiency within a variety of organizations and industries....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 349 words · Chad Fields

Schoolapply Ng Wants To Help Nigerian Students To Get International Admissions

SchoolApply, an edTech startup based out of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has launched a site for Nigerian students. The website allows Nigerian students who want to get into undergraduate and post-graduate university programs, find information on these programs as well as apply. According to CEO Of SchoolApply Daniel Bjarne,“We are committed and dedicated to helping students around the world get university placements that are perfect for them. Our services are for students who want a competitive edge and want to further their education abroad....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 276 words · George Parrish

Senate Committee On Ict Tours Konza Lauds Progress Of Project

Speaking after touring the project, Chairman of the Committee, Baringo Senator, Mr. Gideon Moi said the committee was impressed and encouraged by the achievements of Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) despite financial constraints. “I must say we are impressed and very encouraged with what they are doing, and what the management has managed to achieve so far with the constraints of funding which they have had, and we have discussed those aspects....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 392 words · Jose Harbour

Sony Presents The New Sound Bar Ht A5000 Compatible With Dolby Atmos

The revolution was started by its elder sibling(HT-A7000), and currently, the HT-a5000 is a soundbar with almost all modern improvements. It is suitable for both home, cinema and music use. It is advertised as 5.1.2 and handles horizontal and vertical channels. The design is complete continuity of the HT-A7000, quite discreet and a little sad. For dimensions and weight, it is 1210x140x67 mm (l x w x H) for 6....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 359 words · John Warren

Sophos Uncovers How Attack Code Behaves While Hiding In Memory And Built Protection Against It

The memory region of a hacked computer is a popular hiding place for malware because security scans don’t tend to cover memory. As a result, the malware is less likely to be detected and blocked. The types of malware attackers try to install in memory include ransomware and remote access agents. Remote access agents are the enablers for the rest of an attack so the earlier they are spotted and blocked the better....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 540 words · Michael Laravie

South Africa S Tritech Media Acquires 25 Stake Of Real Time Marketing Firm Proximityid

Tritech Media recently announced its entry in this attractive sector with the acquisition of 50.1% in Ionizr, the pioneer in real-time proximity advertising technology in South Africa and the acquisition of ProximityID is a plus to the firm. In the advertising sector, real-time location-based marketing in shopping malls and retail tenants is considered to have a fast growth; projected to grow from US$4.5 billion currently to US$18.0 billion in 2018, affirming the dramatic shift advertisers are making from traditional media to technology-underpinned precision-based communication channels....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 272 words · Kevin Barrera

Swiss Re Foundation Announces 500 000 Grant For Africa S Insurance Sector

Recently, there has been increased attention to Africa’s expanding and promising insurance sector. At the COP27 Summit, over 85 African insurers pledged to create a financing facility to provide $14 billion to support communities impacted by climate change. The cover will help the continent’s most vulnerable communities deal with climate disaster risks such as floods and droughts, cementing the insurance industry’s position in driving the continent’s economic expansion. Commenting on the new grant, Kelvin Massingham, Director of Risk and Resilience, FSD Africa, said: “The importance of the insurance sector to alleviate the challenges of today cannot be understated....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 429 words · Nicole Harding

Taimba Making It Stress Free To Make A Profit By Linking Agriculturalists And Traders

Normally a large percentage of agriculturalists are based in the rural areas which are more convenient for them whereas most traders are based in the urban areas. These farmers always work intensely to cultivate so that they can produce a bumper harvest. The majority of the farmers do not have access to a better market for their goods. There are many agents on the way from the farm to the store who end up purchasing goods from farmers and they end up selling products at a cheap price and incur huge losses....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 548 words · Steve Musselman

Tanda Partners With Twiga Foods To Enable Vendors To Offer Digital Financial Services

This comes a few months after Tanda launched the Tanda I/O, a new platform for developers to embed digital and financial services on their applications. The API allows any digital platform to plug into Tanda’s banking & payments API to enable seamless integration of financial services into a traditionally non-financial platform. All a partner needs is to sign up, test the API and within a short time they can be fully integrated....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 404 words · Mike Sanderlin

Tanzania S Fintech Nala Expands To 19 European Countries

This expansion follows several other additions to NALA’s product, as the fintech recently integrated ApplePay and Google Pay into its offerings to allow payments from the US and UK to Africa. NALA’s expansion follows in the footsteps of Nigerian Bluechip Technologies, after the software company expanded into Europe earlier this year. Speaking on the reason behind the expansion, Benjamin Fernandes, the founder and CEO of NALA, said, “The European economy is the third largest in the world and home to more than a quarter of African migrants....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 271 words · Dovie Bell

Tecno Camon 16 Premier Wins Smartphone Gold Award At Ifa 2020

This achievement reaffirms TECNO’s camera capabilities as a leader in the mobile phone industry. The IFA Product Technology Innovation Award is a grand selection of international consumer electronics brands, jointly created by the International Data Group (IDG) and the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This prestigious award, jointly presented by IDG and the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is recognized as within the industry as one of the most prominent awards industry insiders can receive....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 459 words · Catherine Mark

Telco Technology Firms Partner To Empower South African Women

With the launch of the Web site as well as the digital literacy training, women in South Africa’s Tlhabane Community will be oozing of knowledge. Launched by the country’s Deputy Minister for the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services Professor Hlengiwe Mlkhize, the site was born out of a partnership between the Department, Deloitte SA, Intel SA, Huawei, Landbank and Telkom SA with a common goal of bettering and improving the lives of women in this community....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 296 words · Charles Dikes

Telcos Win Tsh 16 9 Billon Tender To Connect 112 Underserved Wards In Tanzania

According to the East African Business Week TTCL as been tasked to provide telecommunications services to 102 wards for a total subsidy of $7.6 million (Tsh.14.2 billion) while another 10 wards located in border areas and special zones will get the service for $1.5 million (Tsh.2.7 billion). The subsidies are designed to attract operators to move to the areas which are not seen as profitable to private investment. Tigo will cover 42 wards where it will receive $1....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 431 words · Nicholas Vandyke

Telegram S Latest Update Includes Several Features That Whatsapp Should Try To Emulate

Telegram has several useful features that WhatsApp does not, including multi-device support (multiple phones), channels for large communities, and support for multiple numbers within the same app. Telegram’s messaging service is getting even more features this week, as the company announced a few updates in a blog post. For starters, it now includes a “private content” option for groups and channels. This will allow group/channel owners to limit media uploading, screenshots, and recording to keep the group or channel content private....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 248 words · Daryl Morrissette

Tesla Giga Berlin Officially Opened Elon Musk Dances When Handing Over First Model Y S

The ecstatic CEO literally danced as he personally gave the cars delivered with custom plates ranging from “GIGA 001” to “GIGA 030.” The 30 SUV’s produced were the performance version which have a range of 320 miles and sell for €63,990. Further orders from the German Gigafactory would begin arriving in April. It has been 2 years after Elon Musk did the ground breaking ceremony of the Giga Berlin-Brandenburg, but he warned that it would take a longer amount of time to ramp up the factory to the full 500,000 cars per year capacity....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 230 words · Judy Miller

The 600 000 Zayed Sustainability Prize 2020 Open For African Innovators

December 20, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · Shirley Campbell

The Benefits Of Working With Professional Translators

Even though most businesses will plan and hire a translator to reach a new target audience, many still don’t. They don’t realize that using a local speaker of the language might result in embellished words as well as altered or omitted words. Additionally, the person translating may be bias which in turn could change the meaning of the content. Hence the need to invest in technical translators. Below are the benefits of hiring a technical translator....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 842 words · Timothy Thomas

The Bitcoin Gold Rush Too Little Too Late

This is due to the fact that each and every bitcoin is seen growing to huge numbers when it comes to dollars in value, while it is not going to remain the same with the number of people who are seen having the bitcoin purchase for a couple of years earlier claimed by Mr Jamie Hopkins who remains the retirement research director of the known group called Carson Group. Similarly, the CIO or the chief investment officer Mr G Partners was seen saying that the prices of Bitcoin will go beyond the current price of 60K USD in the coming times as well....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 576 words · Keshia Hendricks

The Cairo Angels Invests In Nigerian Fintech Credpal To Expand It S Services Across Africa

The CASF funding will be used to expand CredPal’s services across Africa with a focus on key markets, namely Egypt, Kenya, Ghana, and Cameroon. This support from Cairo Angels Syndicate Fund reinforces our mission to improve the quality of life of Africans through easy access to consumer credit. My co-founder and I are very pleased to have them as investment partners and can’t wait for how much we’ll achieve together” stated Fehintolu Olaogun, Co-Founder and CEO, CredPal....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 303 words · Frederick Eason

The Growth Of Funding For Women Led Startups In Africa Comes With Many Caveats

However, the volumes and values are still far lower than what male founders have raised in the continent’s buzzing startup ecosystem. “Female techpreneurs have significantly raised the share of growth funds they attract—from $52 million in 2019 to $288 million by the close of 2021,” the Big Deal, shows in their latest analysis. The share of investment going to women-owned tech startups was around 6.5% in 2021, meaning that only $1 out of every $15 raised in the African startup ecosystem goes to women-owned tech startups ....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 554 words · Serena Montgomery