Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) will stage the second instalment of Innovation Botswana from the 25th of October 2018 at the Botswana Innovation Hub Science and Technology Park. Innovation Botswana reiterated its commitment…
Technology
Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and noted technologist, philanthropist, community builder, conservationist, musician and supporter of the arts has died, his company Vulcan Inc has said in a statement. Allen…
Orange Money, Orange’s mobile money solution, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Launched in 2008, the service currently has 40 million customers and is available in 17 countries, reaching €26 billion in transactions in…
The rise of fintechs might be shaking up the banking sector in developed countries, but African banks are taking full advantage of this technological revolution. So argue the co-founders of TagPay (en.TagPay.fr),…
Instagram founders say they are leaving the company to explore “curiosity and creativity again”. The duo, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, sold the photo and video-sharing social networking service to Facebook for…
IPA 2018 keenly contested with 3 000+ applicants from over 52 countries; This year’s innovations address critical challenges in ICT, agri-business, public health and the environment/ energy sectors; The top 10 nominees…
Nala, Virtual Identity and Wallet.ng dazzle judging panel to be the three winners of the competition; All 11 finalists were officially inducted into the Ecobank Fintech Fellowship programme to explore commercial partnerships…
For the third year running, Facebook is sponsoring the annual Facebook Challenge as part of the Student Category at The Loerie Awards 2018 – Africa and the Middle East’s premier award that…
Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) has notified consumers that beginning 1 June 2018, On-Net calls (Calls within network) and Off-Net calls (Calls from one network to the other) are charged the same…
The African Development Bank together with partners – The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook– launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. By training youth in demand-driven…