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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 10/16/2019
Kenya and Ivory Coast have the greatest mobile financial services opportunities when compared to their African peers, according to the Mazars Mobile Payments Index, which analyzed 17 global markets in terms of factors like consumer behavior, mobile payment penetration and regulation and infrastructure.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 10/15/2019
Embattled South African IT services firm EOH is going after the bad apples both inside and outside its organization and has blacklisted and suspended payments to 50 enterprise development business partners implicated in suspect payments.
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Connecting Africa, 10/14/2019
On-demand transportation platform Bolt has appointed a new regional manager for East Africa as it aims to scale up its operations in the region.
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Connecting Africa, 10/11/2019
MTN has a new CEO in Cote d'Ivoire, with Djibril Ouattara due to take over the job on November 1, 2019. Ouattara will move from his current role as CEO of MTN Congo Brazzaville to lead the Cote d'Ivoire unit.
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Connecting Africa, 10/11/2019
Over 15,000 attendees from across Africa and global markets are expected to attend AfricaCom 2019 in Cape Town, South Africa from November 12-14, 2019.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 10/11/2019
Safaricom's mobile money platform, M-Pesa, has been recognized as the ninth most influential project in the world over the last 50 years, beating out hundreds of others including Google Search, Bitcoin and Netflix's streaming service to make it into the top ten.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 10/10/2019
Ride-hailing platform Bolt plans to be present in 75 cities on the African continent by the end of the year. The company is currently active in over 40 African cities in seven countries and has plans to expand to more African nations in 2020, according to Karl Aru, expansion manager for Bolt Africa, who spoke to Connecting Africa in an email interview.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 10/9/2019
The jury is still out on whether it makes sense to take fiber to townships and rural areas in Africa, but that does not mean industry players should not keep looking for workable business models for expansion to these areas.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 10/8/2019
South Africa's minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, has pledged support to the fiber-to-the-x (FTTX) industry promising that government will work with it to ensure that all South Africans, even those in rural areas, gain access to connectivity.
Gabriella Jeakins, Content & Communities Lead, Informa Tech, 10/10/2019
The shortlist has been announced of five innovative companies which are in the running for the AfricaCom's AHUB Pitch & Win 2019 competition, in partnership with GSMA.
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