African online store ready for Black Friday

Nov 18, 2015

Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days in the world, will this year offer great deals and price cuts for bargain hunter around Africa. Set to be the largest event of its kind in Africa, online shopping destination Jumia introduced Black Friday, falling this...

A decade of digital transformation for China

Nov 18, 2015

By 2025, IDC expects China to become the world leader in an array of areas ranging from economic aggregate, manufacturing value-added, the number of Fortune 500 Chinese enterprises, scale of online shopping, and population of the middle-class.

Banks should help their customers to lend

Nov 18, 2015

Banks should consider helping businesses lend to their customers, according to research from IDC Financial Insights. A new IDC Financial Insights study, “Business to consumer demand finance: modern technology enables a new lending opportunity”, calls on...

Airtel Africa partners on Facebook Free Basics

Nov 18, 2015

Bharti Airtel Africa, which has operations in 17 countries across Africa, has announced its partnership with Facebook which will see the launch of Free Basics in Africa. Free Basics is a set of basic web sites and services to introduce people to the internet and...

Africa gains access to global IXs

Nov 18, 2015

As part of its commitment to assisting African networks to further develop their global footprint, pan-African terrestrial Network Service Provider, Workonline Communications is offering access to the world’s largest Internet Exchanges (IXs) from Africa. The...

VCPay winsa Appsafrica Innovation award

Nov 18, 2015

VCPay, a mobile application by Net I UEPS Technologies company Zazoo, has won the “Best Fintech Innovation” category at the Appsafrica Innovation 2015 awards, scooping the honours ahead of six other innovative financial services applications. The awards...