Author: Akin Naphtal

Accenture has appointed Ambe Tierro as country managing director for the Philippines, effective December 1. Lito Tayag, the current country managing director, will retire from Accenture at the end of December, after 20 years of service.Tayag has led Accenture’s business in the Philippines for the past 12 years. During his two decades at Accenture, he has played key roles in driving country strategy and initiatives, building and growing client accounts, developing industry and technology capabilities, and promoting global visibility for the Philippines Delivery Center. As an industry leader, has served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the…

Startups in Kenya and Tanzania have been offered the chance to scale their impact-driven companies and receive a grant investment of up to EUR100,000 (US$102,000) from develoPPP Ventures. On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), implemented by DEG Impulse, and supported by Seedstars, develoPPP Ventures aims to empower startups with entrepreneurial support and grants. READ ALSO: Egypt based Digital Pharmacy Startup Grinta Raises $8m to Accelerate Growth European Parliament Celebrates 70th Anniversary BT Group Wins State Funding for Drone Project Consortium The open call for the programme’s fourth cohort is open to startups in…

The prime ministers of Belgium, France and Luxembourg will today address the European Parliament to mark the institution’s 70th anniversary.The three countries are the Parliament’s host nations.Seventy years ago, the first session of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community took place in Strasbourg, marking the starting point of the European Parliament we know today.Over the decades, six European countries grew into a union of 27 member states fostering democracy, fundamental rights, economic stability and growth. The Parliament was a key player in the development of the EU, growing from 78 national representatives in 1952 to 705…

Egypt based startup Grinta, a B2B tech platform digitising the pharmaceutical supply chain, has raised a US$8 million seed funding round to scale its full-stack tech platform, expand its team and accelerate growth across the Egyptian market.Founded in 2021 by Mohamed Azab, Yosra Badr, Ali Youssef, and Hamza Mohamed, Grinta is a managed marketplace that modernises the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies. The end-to-end platform provides access to the full spectrum of traceable pharmaceutical and medical products from multiple vendors in addition to providing fulfillment, demand planning, and inventory financing. READ ALSO: European Parliament Celebrates 70th Anniversary BT…

BT Group, the UK’s leading communications provider, has announced that it has won UK government backing to fund a consortium and R&D into a long-term drone project it plans to employ to monitor infrastructure in the country.The operator stated the consortium develops projects involving the deployment of drone technologies in the field of infrastructure and forms part of a programme within the UK Research Institute (UKRI), the nation’s official research and innovation agency.Notably, the project will demonstrate value in three use case areas for ports and highways, including landside port operations and management, marine operations and highway safety and defect…

Vodafone UK, the leading technology communications company in Europe and Africa, has received 148,000 new customers across Pay Monthly mobile, home broadband and VOXI.The Telco company has continued to enjoy strong customer growth over the first half of the 2022-2023 financial year (six months ended 30 September), welcoming over 148,000 new customers across Pay Monthly mobile, home broadband and VOXI.This has been driven, in part, by recently launched initiatives such as the Buy Back Guarantee for iPhone 14 customers, Pro II home broadband, and flexible Pulse Connect plans for small businesses.Vodafone has responded to the cost of living crisis with…

The European cybersecurity market is growing, by more than 8% in 2021. At a time when business sectors such as financial services, health and industry are accelerating their digital transformation, detecting, and responding to cyber threats has become an urgent business priority on a continental scale. For European players, there is considerable growth potential.Here’s why cybersecurity is one of today’s greatest business priorities, and the role Orange Cyberdefense plays in this booming market.The European cybersecurity market in figuresIn its latest study, market intelligence consultancy IDC estimates the European cybersecurity market to be worth nearly €34 billion in 2021, up 8.3%…

German carrier O2 Telefónica, which is controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said it is currently using cloud RAN technology from European network equipment supplier Nokia in its 5G network for the first time. The Telecommunications provider said that Cloud RAN allows parts of the radio access network (RAN) to be virtualized, which makes it possible to separate hardware and software.“We are proud to be the first network operator in Europe to use Nokia’s innovative Cloud RAN technology in our O2 5G Live network,” said Mallik Rao, CTO at O2 Telefónica. “We are already deploying it in the 5G core network.…

Ahmed Essam, Vodafone’s UK CEO, welcomed a distinguished room of guests from the charity and political sectors as the company introduced its Vodafone Essentials Broadband social tariff.Speaking on the launch, he said that, “This is an important day for us as we announce our social broadband tariff – the cheapest on the market,” People can now get social broadband and mobile for just 72p a day.”He also spoke about Vodafone’s offer of one year’s free broadband for small businesses, and how the everyone.connnected campaign to offer free SIMs to a million digitally disadvantaged people by the end of 2022 had…

NTT Ltd., a leading infrastructure and services company has announced the launch of 360 Observability. The managed service allows organisations to achieve deep visibility over their cloud-native applications, and hybrid IT and multicloud infrastructure correlated to business context across the entire IT stack. It combines end-to-end maturity assessments of architectures and strategies tied to desired business outcomes and KPIs, and application monitoring for comprehensive visibility into contingent performance issues so teams can quickly remediate problems. Today, modern applications operate in highly complex, distributed environments. Teams often struggle to deliver secure, exceptional and reliable digital experiences because they lack insights tied…