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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...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Apple has updated its App Store guidelines to prohibit apps that use artificial intelligence to generate offensive content or conceal harmful features, including tools that digitally remove clothing from images, until after they pass...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Healthleap , a clinical artificial intelligence startup founded in South Africa in 2022 by siblings Josiah and Jemima Meyer, has secured $38 million in a combined Seed and Series A funding round. Backed by prominent venture capital...
TechTrends Africa ·
A funding announcement is often the loudest moment in a startup’s life and the least informative. The post What Happens After the Funding Announcement? Tracking Startup Performance in Africa appeared first on TechTrends Africa .
TechAfrica News ·
Airtel Uganda has handed over upgraded learning facilities at Kibeedi Primary School in Kibaale District under the Airtel Africa Foundation’s Adopt A School Programme. The upgrades include a refurbished computer laboratory equipped with...
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Artificial intelligence course enrolments in South Africa rise 75%, reveals Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2026.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Fortinet has announced the launch of a dedicated FortiSASE Point-of-Presence (POP), expanding the reach and availability of Fortinet Unified SASE for customers in Oman. While offering many benefits, remote working also expands an...
TechCabal ·
Nigeria’s states take widely different approaches to the cost of laying fibre-optic cables. Some have waived Right of Way (RoW) fees; others charge the ₦145-per-metre benchmark, while Ogun State charges up to ₦6,600 ($4.84) per metre....
TechAfrica News ·
Paratus Zambia completed Starlink installations in 18 Family Legacy Lusaka schools to provide high-speed, reliable internet access for more than 10,000 vulnerable children. The connectivity rollout, completed within approximately two...
TechCentral ·
AI music is flooding streaming platforms, but South Africa's Samro sets no minimum for human input and the SABC has no firm rules on AI-assisted songs.
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Rise SA Business Solutions implemented an integration between Shopify and Rise Business, its ERP solution built on the 1C platform.
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Developed and implemented by Projectized Management in partnership with Absa, the programme is built around a Salesforce certification pathway.
TechCabal ·
Cet article est aussi disponible en français First published on October 18, 2026 Microsoft ADC offices at Dunhill Towers in Nairobi, Kenya. Image: TechCabal Microsoft has shut its Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Nairobi, Kenya ,...
TechAfrica News ·
PureCS, a sovereign digital infrastructure and cybersecurity company within PureHealth, the Middle East’s largest healthcare group, has signed an agreement with Dell Technologies to enhance cybersecurity services across the UAE. As part...
TechTrends Africa ·
New Brand Phishing Report reveals attackers are expanding from trusted technology and social platforms into AI and developer tools, while... The post Microsoft Accounts for One-Third of Brand Phishing Attempts in Q3 2026 appeared first...
TechAfrica News ·
tpay, the leading payment connector in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), has been selected by Vodafone Qatar as its Direct Operator Billing (DOB) aggregator, following a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process. The...
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Strategix Technology Solutions is migrating its own production cloud from VMware to Nutanix, and sharing what it learns along the way.
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This marks the second consecutive year Nutanix has been recognised as a challenger in this Magic Quadrant, following the 2024 launch of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform.
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Developed and implemented by Projectized Management in partnership with Absa, the programme is built around a Salesforce certification pathway.
TechCentral ·
The Cape Town start-up has filed US patent applications for technology aimed at AI voice-clone scams.
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The African Local Currency Bond Fund (ALCB Fund), managed by Cygnum Capital , has committed XOF 4 billion ($7 million) to a XOF 30 billion ($52.2 million) green bond issued by Senegalese agricultural producer Swami Agri. This...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation has announced a significant expansion of its impact investing strategy, committing to increase its dedicated capital allocation by 50% to a total of $750 million. The private foundation will...
Space in Africa ·
Over 10,000 children across 18 Family Legacy schools in Lusaka now have access to stable, high-speed internet after Paratus Zambia […] The post Paratus Zambia Connects 18 Family Legacy Schools With Starlink appeared first on Space in...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is evaluating a proposed $7.5 million investment in the Third Wave Fund, a structured debt vehicle managed by US-based credit investment firm Cauris Investment Management. The fund is...
TechCabal ·
This is Follow the Money , our weekly series that unpacks the earnings, business, and scaling strategies of African fintechs, financial institutions, companies, and governments. A new edition drops every Monday. Nigeria has made...
DefenceWeb ·
New technologies, particularly unmanned naval systems, are emerging so quickly that the law is struggling to keep up, raising a [...]
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
I have spent most of this year on planes. Seven countries, somewhere north of a hundred customer conversations, most of them with teams well past the pilot stage. The thing I keep coming back to is what changed between the January...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
Regulated industries have been dealing with the equivalent of sovereign data for a long time. And as the geopolitical situation makes it more broadly relevant, it doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. From concerns about the reach of...
TechCentral ·
Twelve young professionals were named winners at the 2026 TransUnion Rising Star Awards.
TechAfrica News ·
O3 Group (Ozone Group for Telecom & Technology) is a privately owned Libyan telecommunications and technology company, established in 2024 and headquartered in Benghazi. It is chaired by Dr Faisel Gergab, a former chairman of the Libya...
TechAfrica News ·
Kenya’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) published its Guidance Notes for Cross-border Data Transfers in September 2026. The notes provide operational guidance on Part VI of the Data Protection Act (DPA) of 2019 and...
TechAfrica News ·
Ghana recorded a 95% year-on-year increase in enrolments for artificial intelligence (AI)-related micro-credentials, while critical thinking enrolments rose 66%, according to Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2026, highlighting growing...
CIO Africa ·
Pesapal has partnered with business advisory firm Drift Consult to expand the adoption of RACK, a business management platform that...
TechCentral ·
A previously committed amount of R3.8-billion for modernisation and for creditors still owed money was never released.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Emirates NBD and OpenAI announced a new enterprise collaboration that will make Emirates NBD the first bank in the MENA region to deploy OpenAI’s GPT models using in-country in-ference infrastructure in the UAE. Banks operate in one of...
TechAfrica News ·
Cameroon Telecommunications (CAMTEL) and electricity company SOCADEL have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore infrastructure sharing, with the aim of reducing deployment costs, improving network resilience and...
TechCentral ·
Toyota expects software-defined cars to reach 10 million a year by 2030.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Check Point Research (CPR) released its Brand Phishing Ranking for Q3 2026. The latest findings reveal that Microsoft remained the most impersonated brand, accounting for 33% of all brand phishing attempts tracked during the quarter, up...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Physical design teams face challenges with via resistance, electromigration and routing density. Calibre DesignEnhancer Via (DE-Via) automates the insertion of additional vias, ensuring DRC-clean layout modifications. This shift-left...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Key Takeaways: Physical AI is the deployment of machines with autonomy, acting within the real world. It is not a single product, but a philosophy built on modular architectures. These systems can only be developed with a full systems...
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