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The Amazon of Africa”, a tag it shares with rival e-commerce platform, Konga. But does this translate to success of these start -ups?

Growing up in South Africa’s Free State where he had a good view of the Milky Way, inspired his dreams to become an astronaut

Africa has many challenges where the use of AI could be beneficial, sometimes even more than in other places

This competition was aimed at coming up with creative solutions for one of the world’s largest developmental issues

In 2018, the video games market was bigger than music and cinema, generating $138 billion worldwide

By the move, the drop in latency increases speed and better quality of service to end-users

It will be based on a mobile app, which he says would “allow citizens of the Akon Crypto city utilise it in ways where they can advance themselves”

9 of the world’s 10 countries with the highest infant mortality rates are in Africa

Naspers, which has a primary listing on the Johannesburg stock exchange, will list on Euronext Amsterdam.

Top-level executives of Amazon and Microsoft, the world’s biggestproviders of important cloud services were both in South Africacoincidentally at the same time, this month. This is the clearestindication that cloud services have now become of great importancein Africa. In the wake of Amazon Web Services’ first data center’s openingin Cape Town, next year, Amazon’s chief technologyofficer, Werner Vogels, popped into town to launch the inaugural “Pop-upLoft” in Africa while Yousef Khalidi, Microsoft’s corporatevice-president of Azure Networking, visited Johannesburg to commissiontwo data centres in the country. Describing it as sheer coincidence, Arthur Goldstuck, ManagingDirector of Researchers World Wide Worx, wasn’t going to read deeplyinto the phenomenon but indeed believes that the presence of the world’s top cloud computing platforms’ executives puts South Africa in the debate for…