Cape Town, South Africa// — Nigeria’s data centre expansion is increasingly being framed as a technology story. But at its core, it is a demographics story. Africa’s largest economy is already home to more than 240 million people, and U.N. projections indicate the country could surpass 400 million by 2050, making it the world’s third […]
The blockbuster IPOs expected imminently from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic could weaken the grip that the Magnificent Seven — Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Tesla — have held on Wall Street for years, says Nigel Green, CEO of the global financial advisory deVere Group.
WhatsApp is trying out a new placement for Status updates, showing them at the top of the chats tab. The tech company is running a limited test to see if making statuses more visible will help people catch updates before they disappear in 24 hours.
Paradigm Initiative (PIN) is supporting an ongoing constitutional case before the High Court of Tanzania challenging the restriction of access to the X platform (formerly Twitter), with a determination expected on May 22, 2026.
London, UK//- The informal economy accounts for more than 80% of Africa’s workforce, creating significant broadband challenges and opportunities, according to the newly released Broadband and the Informal Economy in Africa report from Omdia.
imaginima / Getty Images Meredith Primrose Jones, RMIT University Early this week, Iranian state-linked media floated a plan to charge the operators of undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz for access to what they say is Iran’s offshore territory.
Johannesburg, South Africa// — As organisations across Africa intensify their focus on financial discipline, cost optimisation, and governance, a critical vulnerability is becoming increasingly apparent: the lack of accurate, real-time visibility into IT assets such as laptops, desktops, and distributed computing equipment.
Accra, Ghana// – MTN Ghana has once again encouraged its valued customers to protect themselves from scams and phishing attacks by never clicking on suspicious links received via WhatsApp, SMS or websites.
Johannesburg, South Africa//-Axis Communications, the leading manufacturer of physical security and network surveillance solutions, has shared details of its partnership with iXAfrica, East Africa’s largest hyperscale, carrier-neutral data centre, through the brand’s latest customer success story.
With Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declaring 2026 ‘the year that AI starts to dramatically change the way that we work,’ the tech industry is now living through the consequences of that prediction in real time.
