By Angeline Mgbele, Bureau Chief, Northern Nigeria The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have joined forces to empower West African youth with the skills and knowledge needed to safeguard the region's cyberspace. This partnership between both organisations is borne in...

A global Payment Technology company and a pioneer of Payment Fabric, Stanchion has announced that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) as a new Associate Participating Organisation. Stanchion will work with the PCI SSC to help secure payment data worldwide through the ongoing development and adoption...

Luno customers are now able to pay using crypto at over 31,000 merchants in the Zapper payments network across the country, ranging from Dis-Chem pharmacies and FlySafair to fuel stations, educational institutions, bill payments, parking, donations and more. This opens a huge market for South Africans to pay for goods...

Qualcomm announces collaboration with Mistral AI to bring Mistral AI’s models to devices powered by Snapdragon and Qualcomm platforms By Godson Umejiego, Bureau Chief, The Americas At Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced its collaboration with Mistral AI to bring Mistral AI’s new state-of-the-art generative AI models, Ministral 3B...

By Angeline Mgbele, Bureau Chief, Northern Nigeria In a significant move aimed at fostering the development of a digitally savvy generation, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) have partnered to advance the digital literacy curriculum in Nigeria. According to a statement e-signed...

By Angeline Mgbele, Bureau Chief, Northern Nigeria The Federal Government’s commitment to ensuring food security in Nigeria, through the infusion of emerging technologies in the agricultural sector ,  has necessitated the collaboration between the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the National Agriculture Development Fund (NADF) to sign a...

Security and automation designed for the AI era are focus of new phase of partnership, designed for data centers of all sizes in Brazil By Oystein Bergmann, Bureau Chief, Scandinavia and Ron Chen, Bureau Chief, Asia Nokia and Furukawa Electric LatAm have announced they have expanded their partnership to immediately...

By Guest@HuaweiBlog The world's largest startup campus, STATION F, has announced a new partnership with Huawei to launch a sustainability-focused Startup Incubation Programme on campus. This programme aims to support early stage European companies committed to ecological transition, providing them with unique technological resources and expertise to address environmental challenges....

By Julius Ewudo, ASEAN Region Representative In recognition of Ageism Awareness Day, Grey Matters®, who help over 45s shape their lives by providing personalised life plans for longevity and ageing well, and AgeInc, the Age Inclusive Employer Endorsement programme, has announced a new strategic partnership aimed at addressing supply and...

By Donny Jackson Somewear Labs recently announced a collaboration with 3AM Innovations, integrating data from Somewear Labs’ network-flexible hardware to be shown on 3AM’s FLORIAN platform that provide a common operating picture (COP) to responders, particularly wildland firefighters. Somewear Labs CEO and co-founder James Kubik said officials from his company...