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AI could lift Sub-Saharan Africa economy 4% if power, internet improve, IMF saysAs countries and companies race to secure AI's economic benefits, investment in data centres, energy infrastructure and digital networks ...
Civilisations, time and the turning wheelWestern confidence in linear progress has weakened due to recent global challenges. This has led to a renewed interest in Ibn Khaldun's cyc...
A hidden pipeline brings Amazon and Walmart to African shoppersAfrican consumers are increasingly purchasing goods online from major international retailers. Package-forwarding companies are facilitatin...
These large-caps have ‘strong buy’ & ‘buy’ recos and an upside potential of up to 24%When business updates start to come in or when some FMCG or auto companies indicate that things are not all good in the rural space, we may...
South Park Commons backed Maya Research wants to build a voice interface that speaks like a localMaya Research is developing conversational AI models designed to speak and respond like native speakers across languages and cultural conte...
Tourism and hotel sector stocks: Time for a correction in business? Are analysts getting it wrong? 15 stocks from the ecosystemThe Indian hotel and tourism ecosystem has benefitted from the post-Covid travel urge. Occupancies were high, room rates firm, supply is, i...
These large-caps have ‘strong buy’ & ‘buy’ recos and an upside potential of up to 26%Just look at developments in the past 48 hours. The war between Iran and Israel resumed, but within hours Tehran said it had halted all off...
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's Immuneel Therapeutics raises Rs 100 crore from Singularity AMC, Rainmatter, othersThe Bengaluru-based company makes CAR-T therapy, a form of cancer treatment where a patient’s own immune cells are taken out, trained in a ...
AI agents now drive more web traffic than humans — is India any different?For the first time, artificial intelligence agents have generated more web traffic than humans globally, according to Cloudflare. This shif...
Flipkart puts IPO on ice; Rapido's $240 million raiseFlipkart has hit pause on its IPO in a jittery market. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
South Africa to offer Elon Musk Starlink deal before Donald Trump meetSouth Africa is reportedly offering Elon Musk's Starlink a workaround to Black-ownership laws to ease tensions before President Ramaphosa's...
Elon Musk's Starlink To Provide Connectivity To International Aid Groups In Gaza: What Is Starlink and Where is it AvailableElon Musk has announced Starlink's support to humanitarian organizations in Gaza, aiming to bridge the communication blackout after the rec...
Internet access must be a basic human right in developing nations: studyThe study said people around the globe are so dependent on the internet to exercise socio-economic human rights such as education, healthca...
Airtel Africa extends e-learning support to students with UNICEF“Under this partnership, UNICEF and Airtel Africa will use mobile technology to benefit an estimated 133 million school age children curren...
Mumbai based White Space provider, one of the shortlists for Mozilla prizeMozilla, the non-profit organisation behind the open source browser Firefox, launched the award in October 2016 to support innovation for p...
Airtel, Facebook expand free internet service across AfricaIn the first phase, Free Basics will be launched in Airtel Nigeria, DRC, Gabon and Niger followed by other Airtel Africa markets.
Airtel ties up with Liquid Telecom for fibre network in AfricaAirtel has signed an agreement with Liquid Telecom for the same. The company, however, did not share the financial details of the deal.
Mark Zuckerberg lauds telcos for connecting more people to NetFacebook has helped set up with mobile equipment industry's backing two years ago Internet.org, which aims to make basic Internet services.
Half of world’s population to use mobile internet by 2020: GSMAAccording to GSMA, many users in the developing world still access the mobile internet via 2G connections with over 60% in Sub-Saharan Afri...
- Africa to receive $55 billion internet injection: ITU
Africa will receive investment worth $55 billion (38 billion euros) to boost its goal of securing universal Internet access by 2012.