Dec 10, 2018
By the end of 2018, 51,2% of the global population, or 3,9-billion people, will be using the Internet, according to the ITU. “ITU’s global and regional estimates for 2018 are a pointer to the great strides the world is making towards building a more...
Dec 10, 2018
Africa is a continent of great change and opportunities – however, Europe finds it difficult to understand that its future lies in the south. This is the word from Giovanni Tria, Italian minister of finance and economy, speaking in Rome at a conference on...
Dec 10, 2018
Raise, a Bahamian and Kenyan technology company, has announced a partnership with Kenyan corporate law firm ALN Kenya Anjarwalla & Khanna (A&K) to create what it believes to be the continent’s first security token framework. Security tokens, sometimes...
Dec 10, 2018
Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei and daughter of the company’s founder, appeared for a bail hearing in Vancouver on Friday, where the reasons for her arrest were finally made public. Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on the request of the US on...
Dec 10, 2018
Uber is believed to be ready to go public. Reports over the weekend indicate that confidential preliminary paperwork towards an initial public offering (IPO) have been filed. The IPO could happen as soon as the first quarter of 2019. Another ride-sharing company,...
Dec 10, 2018
GeneOS was the $500 000.00 winner in the Block.one EOS Global Hackathon series, which concluded in Cape Town on Friday (7 December). GeneOS is a blockchain-enabled data ownership, marketplace, and secure computing platform for genomic big data. “Almost all of...
