“Digital technology is transforming work, and deep scientific innovation is required to enable productive and sustainable futures for everyone,” said Jaime Teevan, Chief Scientist for Microsoft. The Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) will be at the forefront of inventing new technologies to advance scientific knowledge in the field of computer science. It will conduct cutting edge research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Systems and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)....

However, the company has not confirmed when the upgrade will be rolled out. Video conferencing facilities have been effective in ensuring learning and the meetings happen uninterrupted. This week, Microsoft has rolled out Teams and Skype for Consumer interoperability. In May, the tech giant upgraded Teams video-call participants from four to nine in its push to capitalize on Teams’ growth as video conferencing becomes the new norm. According to an engineer at Microsoft Teams, “We are continuing to work to include more videos during a meeting, as well as enabling support for mobile devices....

According to the Communications Authority of Kenya’s most recent sector data, Safaricom’s M-PESA continues to rule the mobile money world. The same thing was noted when the sector statistics for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2021–2022, which concluded in December 2021, were released. Regarding growth, it doesn’t seem like much has changed for other mobile money wallets like T-Kash by Telkom Kenya and Airtel Money by Airtel Kenya....

The Moja Ride Outlets. Services relied by the Moja platforms include: Moja Wallet – this is the clients’ e-wallet which is a mobile application on android platforms. Transactions made with the Mja Carte can be tracked easily.Moja Ride – It’s a transport payment and management podium.Moja Pay –Merchants are provided with an electronic payment platform .TPEs are accompanied on a network that is fast and reliable. This is a 24/7 podium thus enhancing convenience....

The startup’s US$278,00 funding round, which values it at US$7.5 million, was secured from UM6P Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, and several other Moroccan and foreign international angels. “Closing a major funding round in these uncertain economic times is a testament to the promise our investors see in WafR and its ability to innovate in the fast-paced retail sector,” said Ismail Bargach, co-founder of WafR. “We continue to make significant technical and commercial progress to support FMCG retailers and brands....

The Motorola Razr smartphone was recently given a first look by Chen Jin, general manager of Lenovo’s mobile business. The chance to examine the device’s first design cues and observe that, when opened, it has more rounded edges than its forerunners. In addition, the hinge mechanism seems less imposing than in the past, as several rumors predicted. The Motorola Razr (2022) hasn’t disclosed anything about itself. The rest is hearsay if Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor and up to 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage are known specifications....

The filing system had been earlier implemented but faced so many hiccups. The system will solve some of the challenges people have had in accessing justice in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Law Society of Kenya president Nelson Havi has called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to ensure the Judiciary is properly funded. He further requested that a Bill be put in place to develop a proper framework for e-filing....

The Menlo Park, California-based company is introducing “group effects,” which allow everyone on a video chat to share the same augmented reality experience. The new effects are now available in Messenger video calls and Messenger Rooms, with support for Instagram video calls coming soon. “Group Effects provide a more engaging and interactive way to connect with your friends,” reads Facebook’s blog about the new feature. “With this new feature, interactions will become more memorable, intimate, and exciting than ever before....

3G Direct Pay Limited (3GDP), the leading online payment service provider for East and Southern Africa, is pleased to announce the appointment of Offer Gat, as Chairman of 3G Direct Pay, with effect from March 2015. Eran Feinstein, Managing Director, 3G Direct Pay said, “I am extremely pleased to have Offer on board. He is someone who I highly respect and has outstanding experience, and I have learnt to know and appreciate him over the years....

Ahead of the International Women’s day which is on 8th March, Nigeria has taken the initiative to honor and celebrate the strides by Women in their various fields of life. In this case, the country is celebrating African women in IT. 1. Omobola Johnson Dr. Omobola Johnson is a Nigerian technocrat and the pioneer Minister of Communication Technology, a position she acquired following her appointment as part of the transformation Agenda of the Goodluck Jonathan government....

The Nigerian-based firm will use the funds to get the flagship product, SmatCrows, to customers in Nigeria and support the product launch. Speaking on the investment, the Chief Technology Officer, Adeoluwa Ibikunle, said: “The new investment will enable AirSmat to further build on its position as a startup that helps customers to proactively take business decisions backed by intelligence obtained from AirSmat AI-based platform. We are starting out with food security for the continent; our solution allows smart farmers to gain control of their crop yield and general farming activities....

This is Autochek’s first major expansion into North Africa in a move that is aimed at helping the West African startup enter Morocco and further expand across Africa to drive the penetration of auto financing across Africa. According to Etop Ikpe, CEO and co-founder of Autochek, “from my first interaction with Nizar and his team at KIFAL Auto, I was so impressed by their passion for delivering effective solutions and their commitment to innovation....

The startup which wants to become the platform of choice for data-free access to the Internet across Africa was founded by Tomi Amao, Mayowa Amao, Sam Keiru and Abiola Fajimi in 2020. The company has also raised over $500,000 in pre-seed funding from YCombinator and Future Africa. Co-founder and CEO of Simplifyd, Tomi Amao, says ZeroData, was created out of a strong desire to solve Africa’s worrying data affordability challenge, alongside the drive to support greater digital inclusion across the continent....

Remoto, which was founded last year, offers three products to its customers: car repair insurance, an annual maintenance contract, and on-demand repairs. “The cost of accessing premium vehicle maintenance services in a standard workshop is very expensive and beyond the reach of most vehicle users, who are left with no choice but to use cheap technicians who most of the time make use of counterfeit spare parts,” said Richards Ijebor, Remoto’s chief executive officer (CEO)....

Angel investors included Freeme Digital Limited CEO Michael Ugwu, CELO co-founders Marek Olszewski and Rene Reinsberg, Ventures Platform Founding Partner Kola Aina, Oluwatobi Anisere, and Angel Touch Holdings, as well as Flori Ventures, Voltron Capital, and Allegory Capital. The Lagos-based blockchain startup offers solutions to make cryptocurrency adoption easier in Africa. The Payourse infrastructure helps African businesses to develop user-friendly cryptocurrency and Web3 products. Bashir Aminu (CEO), Hakeem Orewole (Technical co-founder), and John Anisere co-founded Payourse in 2019....

Contrasting the courtship rituals to win her love against the backdrop of the war in the House because of the bill, award-winning Nigerian author and filmmaker Wale Okediran takes the viewer deep into the fictional world of the Nigerian House of Parliament and the uniqueness of the Fulani tribesmen through his movie ‘Tenants of the House’. Hoping to capitalize on the success of the adapted film work Half of a Yellow Sun based in the book of the same name by Chimamanda Adichie, ‘Tenants of the House’ will use actors from both Africa and International fame to appeal to a wider audience, as well as circumvent copyright issues by choosing to release the film in a first run in cities such as London, UK and Berlin, Germany....

The program was created to help Nigerian business owners improve their business ideas through a series of coaching sessions, lectures, and boot camps that would help them build scalable business models. Objectives of the programme Support entrepreneurs that use creative commercial services and products to address social challenges.Create a model incubation program and expand it to other states in Nigeria.Strengthen the technological ecosystem by centering support on selected IT sectors....

The launch sees Node Africa join the growing list of firms such as DataBank and others that aim to provide cloud and infrastructure business in Kenya. Node Africa, whose mantra is “we run your cloud infrastructure so you can run your enterprise”, will run on VMware, “the recognized leader in virtualization and automation of compute, networking and storage resources from the desktop to the data center and to the cloud....

This challenge is what ‘Now Showing’ wants to solve. Launched by Iruafemi Joseph on November 11 2015, ‘Now Showing’ is a movie aggregation app that displays trending movies in cinemas and their streaming times across Lagos, Nigeria. The platform utilises 4-time filters — Now, Next, Tomorrow and Today — an attempt to make it easy to display only scheduled movies that are relevant to that particular filter. The Now filter displays movies currently running in various cinemas, Next filter displays showing times for upcoming movies, Today filter provides an all-showtimes list for all the movies at all listed cinemas for that day and the Tomorrow filter displays movies that can be watched the next day....

NCC figures showed there were 51,284,804 dormant SIM cards in Nigeria in January but the number reduced to 47,985,908 in February 2015. This is contained in the commission’s ‘Monthly Subscriber Data’, released on Sunday in Lagos. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the connected numbers on the telecom networks also reduced from 192,107,641 recorded in January to 190,575,684 in the month under review. It explained that of the 47,985,909 dormant SIM cards in February, the Global System for Mobile communication, GSM, operators shared 46,135,318....