LG Electronics has launched ‘Mission for the Future,’ a global contest for startups to unlock innovative technologies and business ideas into the future. This inaugural competition will be hosted by the company’s new Silicon Valley-based innovation centre, LG NOVA, a strategic team within LG working with startups and entrepreneur communities to build new businesses and tap innovation from outside LG. ‘Mission for the Future’ will be a nine-month annual challenge seeking the best ideas, concepts, and businesses for a greener, smarter, healthier, more connected future. The selected startups will begin working with the LG NOVA team on their business proposals…
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Raxio Group, a premier pan-African data centre developer and operator has appointed Master Power Technologies to build and install its multiple data centres in Africa. Master Power is a leading data centre solutions company, specialising in the supply and installation of pre-engineered data centres in the continent. Following its first facility in Uganda, Raxio’s next suite of data centres are being developed in Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique in order to deliver premier colocation services to the region. The infrastructure will help drive growth to the region by supporting the rising consumption of data and the growing…
Autochek, Nigeria’s Auto financing firm on Monday announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire ROAM Africa’s automotive marketplaces Cheki Kenya and Uganda. Autochek is an automotive technology company facilitating auto financing across Africa with operations in Nigeria and Ghana. DigitalTimesNG understands that the move to acquire Cheki Kenya and Uganda comes just one year after the company successfully acquired Cheki Nigeria and Ghana as part of its launch in West Africa. The deal will be finalised within the following weeks and will see Cheki Kenya and Uganda’s operations integrate with the wider Autochek operations. Launched in 2020, and…
PwC Africa has announced six key focus areas that will support the execution of its new global strategy that was announced on 15 June 2021, known as The New Equation. PwC Africa’s commitment to quality and exceptional service delivery unites these key focus areas and remains the foundation of the strategy going forward. At the heart of this strategy is quality and continuing to invest in further enhancing quality and expanding its capabilities. PwC Africa’s six key focus areas for The New Equation strategy are trust, growth, and value creation, ESG, digitisation, international development, and workforce. Audit and assurance remain…
All is now set for the historic launch of the compendium of landmark speeches and presentations of the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta. The epoch-making launch scheduled to hold at the Communications & Digital Economy Complex, Mbora, Abuja, on September 7, 2021, by 10:00 a.m. prompt, will also feature the unveiling of two other strategic initiatives of the Commission. A statement signed by the NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde and made available to DigitalTimesNG Tuesday evening said the book titled “Catalysing Nigeria’s Socio-Economic Transformation…
Check Point Software Technologies said on Monday it acquired U.S.-Israeli cyber security company Avanan, which specialises in protecting email, where most cyberattacks begin. Check Point, which is based in Israel, did not disclose financial details, according to a Reuters report. “More and more businesses are moving to cloud-email platforms and with email becoming a major channel to launch devastating cyber-attacks, this acquisition represents a huge potential,” said Dorit Dor, Check Point’s chief product officer. Avanan was founded in 2015 and its technology blocks malicious emails before they reach a user’s inbox, Check Point said. It has more than 5,000 customers…
Instagram will begin requiring users to confirm their birthdays as part of an effort to create new safety features for young people, the Facebook Inc-owned social media app said Monday, according to reports by Reuters. Instagram has explored building a version of its app for kids under the age of 13, prompting lawmakers to urge Facebook to drop the plans, saying the social media company “has a clear record of failing to protect children on its platforms.” The social media platform said in a blog post that it will use the information to “ensure we provide the right experiences to…
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said that it has commenced the process of repealing and re-enacting the NITDA Act 2007. NITDA said in a statement signed by its Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations, Mrs. Hadiza Umar and made available to DigitalTimesNG that the step is part of its efforts to ensure that Nigeria benefits maximally from the global digital economy. It said that the need to repeal the existing Act became necessary with the launch of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS), which effectively replaced the Nigerian National IT Policy, 2000. “You may recall…
Prepaid customers on the network of digital telecommunications solutions provider, Globacom, have been assured of free airtime and data in commemoration of the 18th anniversary of the company. The company which rolled out services on the 29th of August, 2003, has over 50 million subscribers on its network. Globacom, in a statement on Saturday, said that prepaid customers on the Glo network will be credited with a gift of N200 airtime which gives them 6 minutes of talk time and 200MB data for browsing. The company said customers who have recharged from N200 and above in the last 30days will…
The Board, Management and entire members of staff of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have commiserated with the family of the immediate Past Chairman of the Board of the Commission, Distinguished Senator Otunba Olabiyi Durojaiye. Senator Durojaiye answered the call of God on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at the age of 88 years. In a condolence letter to the family, the Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta described the late Durojaiye as a Patriarch, grandfather and great-grandfather. Danbatta extolled his lifetime of service as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Banker, Lawyer,…