Technology

3 years ago | February 7, 2020

Fresh sales channel for young African traders

Catherine Oshotse, a 27-year-old entrepreneur from Lagos, Nigeria, has the internet to thank for her growing business.

4 years ago | October 11, 2019

Technological innovations make agric appealing

As climate change makes farming far tougher and young people reject it as a career, technological innovations to make ...

Transsion launches public offering on SSE’s Star market

Transsion, which has become Africa’s top-selling phone maker in the last year, launched its initial public offering on ...

4 years ago | October 4, 2019

Nigeria accounts for half of world’s mobile banking

Nigeria is a laggard in a region that accounts for half of the world’s 866 million mobile banking and payment accounts.

4 years ago | September 27, 2019

Why Africa is poised for electronic payment revolution

Moving money between neighbouring African countries using traditional payment systems often requires sending it around ...

App seeks to clean up Zim’s waste-clogged cities

Tech is coming to the rescue as the country’s Government is struggling to keep cities clean amid an economic crisis.

4 years ago | September 13, 2019

Victoria Falls never gets old!

It really doesn’t matter how many times you have seen these mighty falls, every fresh sighting is as good as your first ...

Apple bets on cameras, battery life to sell latest iPhones

Apple unveiled new iPhones with camera enhancements and improved battery life, making incremental tweaks to lure buyers ...

4 years ago | August 16, 2019

Apple faces life after iPhone. . . but still banks on its ...

Apple generated less than half of its total quarterly revenue from sales of the iPhone for the first time since 2012 — a ...

Mobile phones replace bank accounts in Africa

It doesn’t look like the hub of an online bank. But that’s what the yellow and blue metal kiosk becomes when Albert ...

4 years ago | August 2, 2019

What is facial recognition?

As a surveillance technique it’s ubiquitous, but is still a political, legal and ethical conundrum. Facial recognition ...

Leapfrogging into digital literate can give youth work

StatsSA recently released their latest unemployment figures and the news was bleak, particularly for the youth of our ...

US trade ban to impact revenue growth: Huawei

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI.  — Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies warned on Tuesday a US trade blacklisting will impact ...

4 years ago | June 28, 2019

Are we tech ready to confront climate change?

2019 is proving to be a historic year for climate change in many ways. One of these significant moments happened in ...

Rebuilding trust in regulating technologies

Trust in governance is at an all-time low. Experts trace a first major decline in trust back to the 1970s, corresponding ...

4 years ago | May 31, 2019

What if China, US split tech world?

If the ongoing tensions between Beijing and Washington force companies to develop two different sets of technologies — ...

Zim solid waste project back on track

Zimbabwean solid waste-to-energy project is back on track with an investor, Pragma Leaf Consulting Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd, ...

Rise of African start-up cities

The geographical focus of innovation and entrepreneurship is shifting and cities in the United States are no longer the ...

4 years ago | May 24, 2019

Why Google, Microsoft invest in Africa

What if you could tell what was wrong with your plant by simply hovering your smartphone over it? Well, farmers in ...

4 years ago | May 3, 2019

‘No Endgame in sight for Disney’s Success’

Disney blockbuster “Avengers:Endgame” passed the $1 billion box office mark in the opening weekend and J.P. Morgan sees ...