Tag Archives: Africa

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google to build first subsea fibre optic cable connecting Africa with Australia  Yahoo Life Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google to build first subsea fibre optic cable connecting Africa with Australia  TechCrunch Source link

Dubai: Yandex makes its way to the Middle East, presenting a new service – Yandex Games: a launchpad for game-makers and a catalog of brand new HTML5 games. The platform is now available for game developers and creators in the MENA region and will be an excellent opportunity to share and monetize their game projects. Yandex Games was founded in 2018 and has been growing rapidly in the past four years, including its expansion to international markets. The platform holds over 10 thousand… Source link

Tech giant Google has today announced the launch of a cloud region in South Africa, its first in the continent, playing catch-up to other top providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, which made inroads into the continent a few years ago. Google said it is also building Dedicated Cloud Interconnect sites, which link users’ on-premises networks with Google’s grid, in Nairobi (Kenya), Lagos (Nigeria), and South Africa (Capetown and Johannesburg), in its quest to… Source link

120,000 accountants and financial analysts use the application to analyze raw financial data, with over 1 million business reports generated since its launch JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Google Cloud announced today a collaboration with Syft Analytics, a South African – based financial reporting application which processes significant volumes of financial data and provides insightful financial reports to accountants, financial analysts, and businesses. Syft Analytics will… Source link

When former NBA star Chauncey Billups was approached about participating in Basketball Without Borders 10 years ago, he had interest but needed to put it off due to timing issues. He knew that when he came back around to the proposition, he wanted it to be in Africa. “I’ve heard so many great things and I’ve never been here before,” Billups said. “I wanted to make sure I got here.” On Sunday, Basketball Without Borders Africa opened its camp in Cairo, Egypt with Billups among the… Source link

Google Wallet is now available in South Africa, the first market for this product in Africa, to make it easy for users to save and easily and securely access their payment cards, loyalty cards and boarding passes. Google said that cardholders of partner banks in South Africa that include FirstRand Bank, Discovery Bank, Investec, Standard Bank, ABSA and Nedbank can now add their details on the wallet, and make contactless payments using their android phones and Wear… Source link

Aug 23 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) launched Google Wallet in South Africa on Tuesday, as the tech giant tries to gain a foothold in the country’s rapidly growing digital payments space. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital transactions and people increasingly prefer making contactless payments via their smart devices. High smartphone penetration has also helped adoption rates. The Google Wallet app stores a consumer’s credit or debit card information and allows… Source link

Lori Systems, an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors. Sources say the company raised at a slightly higher valuation than its last $110 million valuation in 2020.  This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the… Source link

Running for thousands of miles along the bottom of the sea, the cable’s landing had been delayed for months by rough conditions and Covid-19. But now here it was, a couple of inches wide and already covered in sand. A welcome party stood on the beach and posed for photos before the cable continued inland. Equiano had finally arrived. Equiano is the latest subsea internet cable financed by Google. Starting in Portugal and eventually ending in South Africa, with branches to Nigeria, Togo, the… Source link