TaxTim heads into Namibia with PwC

South African-born digital tax assistant TaxTim began its African expansion this week, working together with audit, tax and advisory firm PwC to enter Namibia. Since raising seed funding from Google in 2011, TaxTim has helped over 1.3 million South Africans make tax...

Egyptian tech firms expand African footprint

As a part of the country’s efforts to increase IT exports and achieve ambitious economic goals, Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) helped setting out a number of partnership protocols and concluding business agreements between Egyptian...

Jovago offers Obama top hotel stay

Jovago.com has issued an invitation to the President of the United States of America to stay at the best hotel in Kenya. This invitation was sent as a way of fostering Kenya-US relations as well as to boost entrepreneurship as the President is scheduled to attend the...

Africa relies on Q-KON satellite service

In order to ensure reliable and dependable access to the internet and corporate data networks, many businesses are turning to terrestrial networks using dual redundant fibre access circuits and advanced MPLS network infrastructure. However, when it comes to coverage...

Jasco expands East Africa presence

Jasco has announced the opening of a new office in Kenya as of 1 April 2015. Based in Nairobi, the office will help to cement Jasco’s position in the East African market, expanding the group’s geographic footprint and providing more effective customer service to...

Mobile technology bridges digital divide

Handicapped by economic constraints,-millions of unprivileged people in the developing world continue to be deprived of sufficient access to communication technology, creating strata of information haves and haves-not that widens the digital divide and knowledge gap...