Engineering postgraduate student Moses Pius has said he and his partners recognised the need for a courier enterprise that was innovative and could leverage technology to make ... Read more »
The launch of a U.S.$1.8 million solar-powered mini-grid on Robben Island - once a prison to the late former President and struggle icon Nelson Mandela - is the first step in ... Read more »
Australian web security expert Troy Hunt has said that a data breach containing the private information of 30 million South Africans "is one of the worst" he has ever seen. ... Read more »
Farmers in the country have been introduced to sophisticated non-chemical crop storage bags to preserve grains. Read more »
The Square Kilometre Array radio relescope installation has broken new ground in the field of gravitational wave research after oberving the collision of two neutron stars in what ... Read more »
A U.S.$2.5 billion, 600-megawatt offshore wind farm originally intended for the Kenyan coast has been relocated to Tanzania where it will be more easily implemented, Swedish firm ... Read more »
"Digital disruptions" like blockchain technology and robotic process automation that are set to transform the financial services industry in East Africa, according to Robert Nyamu, ... Read more »
Gilbert Saggia, the East African Managing Director at SAP Africa has said that Kenya is "enjoying the positive impact of digital innovation". This comes as the African ... Read more »
Nigerian start-up Andela, backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, has raised nearly U.S.$40 million for the development of IT talent in three African countries. This comes as ... Read more »
M-Pesa, a mobile financial service, has revolutionised how nearly 25 million Kenyans pay each other money and do their daily transactions, writes Toby Shapshak for Africa in Fact. ... Read more »
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