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iAfrica.com ·
President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will lead a delegation of government officials, academics, business leaders and young South Africans to Silicon Valley after the local government elections, to meet leading AI developers and understand...
iAfrica.com ·
Two Kenyan AI startups, Neural Labs Africa and Me-Nasoma, have won the inaugural Meta AI Academy Kenya Pitchathon, each receiving $5,000 (about KSh 645,000) in equity-free funding along with Meta advertising credits. The competition,...
iAfrica.com ·
Enrolments in AI-related micro-credentials rose 95% in Ghana and 93% in Nigeria over the past year, according to Coursera’s eighth annual Global Skills Report, published by the online learning platform. The report draws on a subset of...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · · Unconfirmed
Fresh from its recent smart home-focused showcase, Apple has officially announced its third product event of the season. The company has invited members of the press, technology analysts, and select influencers to Los Angeles on 28...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
IT leaders seeking promising AI use cases may be overlooking a potential goldmine: deploying the technology to assist with major IT modernization and digital transformation initiatives. Leading CIOs at a handful of large enterprises...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Cloudflare announced an expanded partner ecosystem to help teams deploy productive AI in their organisations using Cloudflare OS , Cloudflare’s AI workspace. Cloudflare is partnering with leading professional service teams to help...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, has appointed Laura Vecvagare as Regional Director for Infrastructure and Natural Resources for East and Southern Africa,...
TechCentral ·
A guide on what to compare before choosing a .co.za registrar, from renewals to security.
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has disclosed plans to invest $85 million (€76 million) in the Virunga Africa Fund II, a pan-African private equity investment vehicle targeting a total fund size of $500 million. The fund is managed...
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AI safety cannot become a private understanding between the tech and political elites, with oversight serving those it should scrutinise.
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AI without governance is the next cyber security crisis, warns Dr Cordell Robinson, CEO of Brownstone Consulting Firm.
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TikTok has partnered with the Electoral Commission of South Africa to provide voters with reliable election information and combat misinformation ahead of the November polls.
TechAfrica News ·
Blue Cloud Softech Solutions Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Affairs of the Republic of Senegal and the Global Council for Investment and Business for Africa (GCIB)....
TechCentral ·
Datatec shareholders took two-thirds of a R7.05-billion special dividend in new shares instead of cash.
TechAfrica News ·
Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments provider, has announced a global partnership with Samsung Electronics to support its digital commerce ecosystem with flexible, high-performance payment capabilities, and bring Samsung Pay...
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Fortanix® Inc., a global leader in data and AI security and pioneer of Confidential Computing, today announced support for CNCF Confidential Containers (CoCo) in Fortanix Confidential AI, enabling organizations to run AI workloads on...
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(Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™ and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced it will report earnings after market close on October 29, 2026.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Redington has reinforced its long-term commitment to Iraq at ITEX Iraq 2026, highlighting continued investment in the market and a focus on strengthening distribution infrastructure, local capabilities and access to global technology....
TechAfrica News ·
Vodacom Mpumalanga has reinforced its commitment to connecting communities and advancing digital inclusion through a significant investment of over R600 million in network infrastructure and technology this financial year to expand...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Agentic AI for Heterogeneous System Design Across Chip, Scale-Up, and Scale-Out Domains Argonne National Laboratory ,...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
UAE organisations are adopting AI-powered security at pace and seeing clear improvements in how quickly they detect and respond to threats, according to new research from Cisco. However, the findings show that organisational factors,...
TechAfrica News ·
Kenya’s Technopolis Development Authority is promoting Konza Technopolis as a hub for business process outsourcing (BPO) and global business services (GBS), with a focus on attracting investment, expanding digital infrastructure and...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Qualys has announced TruRisk Eliminate 2.0 with TruConfidence, a new remediation intelligence and orchestration engine that powers Qualys’ vision for Autonomous RemOps, a new category for the frontier AI era. Built on Qualys’ extensive...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Sophos announced the appointment of Fayez Eweidat as Vice President of Sales for Middle East Turkey and Africa. Based in Dubai, Eweidat will lead Sophos’ regional sales strategy, deepen strategic partnerships, and expand access to...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
VAST Data and Hyperfusion announced plans to integrate the VAST AI Operating System into Hyperfusion’s Sentinel modular AI infrastructure as its preferred data platform, creating a jointly developed offering designed to help customers...
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Effective GRC should make it easier to move from information to a defensible decision, says Deneys Minne, chief revenue officer at XGRC Software by Strategix.
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Hidden API, retrieval and deletion fees are pushing cloud storage costs over budget and threatening AI ROI, says Ian Parker, executive manager at LOOPHOLD.
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By deploying Appgate’s direct-routed ZTNA in local infrastructure, network operators can offer a white-labelled managed service designed for lower-latency access, stronger routing control and clearer data governance choices.
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Built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, the project modernises AAGROUP's data ecosystem and lays the foundation for advanced analytics and future AI/ML capabilities.
TechCabal ·
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Good morning. If procrastinating on buying your Moonshot ticket were an Olympic sport, some of you would be bringing home medals. We’re now eight days out, and have decided to...
TechCentral · · Medium severity
A researcher says the agents worked from start to finish without any human supervision at all.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Optro has announced the launch of an expanded set of autonomous agentic products to empower risk teams across the enterprise. Unveiled at CRX (formerly Audit & Beyond), Optro’s annual user conference, the announcement marks the formal...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Nvidia has introduced new open-weight artificial intelligence models designed to power enterprise AI agents and run locally on personal computers, expanding its push into AI software and on-device computing. The new releases include...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published a technical paper titled “Agentic AI for Heterogeneous System Design Across Chip, Scale-Up, and Scale-Out Domains.” Abstract Excerpt:...
Tech In Africa ·
Two Kenyan artificial intelligence startups, Neural Labs Africa and Me-Nasoma , have emerged as winners of the inaugural Meta AI Academy Kenya Pitchathon, securing a combined KSh 1.3 million in equity-free funding. Each startup received...
Tech In Africa ·
South Africa-founded healthcare technology startup Healthleap has secured $38 million in seed and Series A funding to expand its artificial intelligence platform designed to help hospitals identify patients at risk of undiagnosed...
Tech In Africa ·
Kenyan lawmakers are intensifying scrutiny of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) financing companies following growing complaints about alleged consumer exploitation, excessive lending charges and questionable debt recovery practices. The...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has partnered with the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) to help Nigerian technology startups attract private...
TechCabal ·
In April 2022, Five35 Ventures, a gender-focused venture capital firm , wrote one of its first cheques to Complete Farmer, a Ghanaian agritech company that connects smallholder farmers to buyers, inputs and financing. In March 2026, it...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Digital Africa, the technology-focused investment subsidiary of the French development finance institution Proparco , has executed its inaugural investment in the Ethiopian market by backing the agritech startup ChipChip. Founded in...
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