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The African Millennial Population Can’t Get Enough of Bitcoin

Bitcoin for beginners: The how to guide. When the pioneering cryptocurrency Bitcoin came on the scene, many people assumed this currency would be most relevant for people in the developed world. However, African millennials are rapidly upending stereotypes about Bitcoin adopters. Why Bitcoin Is So Attractive For Young Africans Some commentators believe that the recent growth in Bitcoin prices represents the inflation of a fiscal bubble. Still, many other financial experts believe Bitcoin’s exponential rise is here to stay. The incredible explosion of Bitcoin prices has proven difficult to resist for people who are desperate to get into investing. Many thousands of young Africans are currently betting big on Bitcoin. For years now, Africans across the continent have adopted technology with ...

All That You Need to Know About CCTV Pipe Inspection

Often there is a serious problem of pipe blockage, which is the worst fear among every homeowner. Your pipes work for many years tirelessly for removing water and other wastes from the buildings. However, when any blockage happens then it can be quite worrying, disruptive, and also potentially a costly problem to face. Often the pipes buried under the ground are to be dug out to find the real cause of such blockage and that can often be quite tricky. CCTV pipe inspection by using a sewer camera can take away all your worry and can offer you so many benefits that we would like to share them in this writeup.  CCTV is a very well-established technology that is often used for inspections of underground pipes and it offers many benefits. In case there is any crack or damage to the pipes, tree r...

What is the Haller App and How is it Assisting Farmers in Africa

Across Africa, unsustainable farming practices combined with climate change have exhausted the soil — leaving much of the ground unfarmable. In addition to the growing lack of arable land, agricultural knowledge and education have proven to be in short supply. With this in mind, the Haller Foundation — a UK based charity and Kenyan NGO — devised a plan to provide farmers across the continent with the information, skills and infrastructure they need to thrive through an award-winning mobile app. The Haller Farmers app leverages the increasing availability of mobile connectivity in Africa to promote viable farming techniques needed to maximise food production and help build thriving, self-sustaining communities. Initially launched in 2014 and redeveloped as a native, downloadable app in 2020...

Does Your Business Use Device Fingerprinting Yet?

We’ve already predicted that 2021 will be a year of tremendous digital transformation for African companies. Unfortunately, this also means a rise in online risk and cybercrime.  Today, we’re going to take a look at a particularly effective fraud prevention method: device fingerprinting, to see how African startups, financial institutions and online stores could use it to reduce their fraud rates. Understanding Device Fingerprinting  Anyone who accesses the web needs to do it with an Internet connection and device. There is a ton of data associated with the configuration of software and hardware you use.  In fraud prevention, the more information you have about a user, the better. The goal of device fingerprinting is therefore to extract as much information as possible from ...

Bizerba Investing in Digitization and Additional Location

Site in Eastern Europe A positive development and the continued growth lead to the fact that production capacities at the German sites are reaching their limits. At the same time, new regions have evolved as clear growth markets in recent years. “Eastern Europe unfolds strong dynamics and is, therefore, a strategically important market for Bizerba”, says Andreas W. Kraut. With this additional site, Bizerba will be able to react to trade restrictions between the USA and China in a more flexible way and thus contribute to greater independence in the flow of goods and money. Therefore, the company will build a new site in this region in order to increase production capacities. As a global player, investing in growth regions is crucial for Bizerba to be as close as possible to the customer. “E...

$1 Million for African Students to Start their British Studies Online – Apply Today with Unicaf

Tuition fees have burdened many young people financially and pushed others to abandon their dreams as the high cost was discouraging. Without a doubt, a scholarship is one way to earn a degree and start your career debt-free. Many talented but disadvantaged students get to study in western universities with great financial support. However, this is not a privilege just for the ones who study abroad. Unicaf is offering generous scholarships to eligible students for online programmes, receiving the same education through distance learning. Find out if your eligible here. Education is “online”, are you? /* custom css */ .tdi_3_66b.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_66b.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } In the past international students with scholarships attended les...

Vodacom Business Enables Businesses to Digitise their Supply Chain Network

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create significant challenges for the manufacturing and retail industry globally, the need for a resilient and agile supply chain network has never been greater. Vodacom Business has developed various digital solutions to help businesses achieve a true connected supply chain network to help improve efficiencies and withstand disruption and unpredicted hurdles in the future. Today’s supply chain network is more complex than ever. It has become a digital ecosystem of suppliers, logistics companies, customers and other value chain partners that stretch across the globe. The supply chain network relies on the synchronised movement of thousands of interrelated parts to meet the ever growing customer demand for better, more innovative products and on-time, l...

All You Need to Know about a Barcode Scanner

Imagine going to the grocery store for your weekly shopping and waiting in line while the cashier manually rings up the price of every item. This was the reality not that long ago in South Africa. Twenty-five years ago, here and in many other countries around the world the barcode was only a vague concept most retailers knew very little about. How much has changed since then. Interestingly, research revealed that five weeks after the barcode was installed for the first time, sales in grocery stores began increasing, resulting in a 10–12% increase in sales overall and a 1–2% reduction in operating costs. The ROI (return on investment) for a barcode scanner was found to be 41.5% (Wikipedia, n.d.).  Thanks to codes and barcode scanners, our lives have been revolutionised, and buying and selli...

SIM-based Locking: How Telcos Can Reinvent Their Device Financing with NuovoPay

Device financing has been a catalyst in increasing the penetration of smartphones across developed countries. Several telecom carriers have taken the plunge into device financing in recent times, also bringing into focus the previously underserved markets of smartphone financing- in the African, LATAM and APAC regions.  Traditionally, the smartphone financing model, especially the one that comes pre-bundled with a telecom service is a win-win for both the consumer as well as the telecom companies. With device financing, individual consumers as well as businesses can leverage the latest technology at their disposal, have an easy upgrade, pay lower total upfront costs and get a telecom service, with voice and data packages. For telecom carriers, smartphone financing enables tapping into...

Quality FinTech Solutions In Africa

The African continent is an exciting market where financial technology gets implemented every day. The impact these financial technology solutions are having on the financial sector in Africa is tremendous. Financial technology, or FinTech, has proved to be a good and more effective alternative to traditional banking systems in different parts of Africa. The FinTech creates a very advanced environment that promotes value, quality financial solutions, and efficiency gains. FinTech is constantly improving the financial sector across many countries on the African continent and stimulates innovation as well as creativity and productivity in many different sectors. In many countries, the banking sector relies heavily on good FinTech solutions that reduce the cost of banking operations and incre...

Key Trends that Benefit Growing Businesses

Sourced from HCAMag.com As everyone knows, trends are not permanent. However, just because certain business trends may not be here to stay, it doesn’t mean that savvy entrepreneurs can’t use them to achieve positive results in the meantime. Indeed, there are a number of key trends that are just now developing that can benefit growing businesses in significant ways. To that end, today we’ll review these exciting advancements and explain how growing companies can maximize their impact. Check it out here:  Remote Employment There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that remote employment is more than just a passing fad. After all, remote employment has grown significantly over the past 10-15 years. However, COVID-19 has obviously forced many organizations to pursue a remote office set up –– ...

4 Keys to Successful Remote Management

Running a successful company is difficult even under the best of circumstances. Unfortunately, the past nine months have been far from ideal. Indeed, many business leaders have been forced to adopt a remote office setup to ensure the safety of their staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. As one can imagine, managing a team from a remote location is typically a daunting task –– to say the least. The good news is that it is possible to lead effectively despite these less-than-ideal conditions. To that end, here are four keys to successful remote management:  Communication Obvious? Yes. Important? Absolutely. While communicating with your team might prove more difficult in a remote setup than in a traditional office environment, it’s nevertheless vital for business leaders to regularly conn...