CCI Global, Africa’s outsourcing firm, has announced the opening of Kenya’s largest call centre in Tatu City. This new five-story building inside Tatu City, the 5,000-acre Special Economic Zone on Nairobi’s doorstep, represents a $50 million investment into the Kenyan BPO industry. The state-of-the-art facility becomes Kenya’s largest call centre, promising to help invigorate the …
Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab is expected to announce on Tuesday how it is building on artificial intelligence across its businesses, a day after OpenAI demonstrated a new AI model that can work with sound and images in addition to text. The annual I/O developer event is typically when Alphabet showcases its latest new technology …
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Rheinmetall’s civil unit suffered a cyberattack in April last year that cost the German arms manufacturer 10 million euros ($10.80 million), Chief Financial Officer Dagmar Steinert said at the annual shareholders’ meeting. The group, which plays a major role in supplying arms to Ukraine, is exposed to many cyberattacks on a daily basis, Steinert said, …
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Standard Chartered has inducted 20 new female start-ups into the fourth Cohort of the Standard Chartered Women in Tech incubator programme. The programme is implemented by Ashesi University’s Ghana Climate Innovation Centre and is dedicated to empowering women entrepreneurs. With a renewed focus on sustainability, this year’s programme reflects the Bank’s commitment to fostering environmentally …
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Telecel Ghana has teamed up with Infinix to launch the revolutionary Infinix NOTE 40 Series, to boost mobile technology accessibility and consumer internet package options in Ghana. The Infinix NOTE 40 Series, featuring the NOTE 40 and NOTE 40 Pro, introduces ground-breaking technologies such as the 70W Multi-Speed Fast Charge, which allows users to charge …
Following an outage that disrupted internet services in parts of West Africa since March 14, 2024, MainOne, a leading provider of undersea fiber optic internet connectivity, has announced the successful completion of repairs to its submarine cable. The outage, which also affected other subsea communication cables in the region, caused significant disruptions to banking and …
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MTN Ghana and Mobile Money LTD have announced their sponsorship of the 2024 3i Africa Summit, scheduled to take place from May 13th to May 15th, 2024, at the Accra International Conference Centre. The 3i Africa Summit is a collaborative initiative by the Bank of Ghana, the Development Bank of Ghana, and the Monetary Authority …
TikTok plans to start labelling images and video uploaded to its video-sharing service that have been generated using artificial intelligence, it said on Thursday, using a digital watermark known as Content Credentials. Researchers have expressed concern that AI-generated content could be used to interfere with U.S. elections this fall, and TikTok was already among a …
OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. The announcement date, though subject to change, has not been previously reported. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab-backed OpenAI is …
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Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, warned on Saturday of a “degraded service” as the Earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades. Starlink owns around 60% of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth and is a dominant player in satellite internet. Musk said earlier in …
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