Africa’s digital economy has the potential to reach US$180-billion by 2025, approximately 5% of the continent’s GDP, according to market research by the International Finance Corporation and Google and referenced by Vodacom in its announcement that it intends to expand its managed service Cloud Connect offering. The mobile network operator says Cloud Connect “provides businesses...
Telecom operators are increasingly looking to establish themselves in the streaming sector, which is a means of increasing revenues, among other things. But this turns out to be complicated, in particular because of the lack of dedicated platforms to help them in this regard. MwareTV, a cloud-based television platform, has just revealed a new end-to-end TV...
African businesses will be spoilt for choice in the coming years given the expected increase in the continent’s public cloud service requirements, according to industry insiders. Competition in the cloud space is growing… from Google partnering with DigiCloud to bring the Google Platform to the rest of Africa, AWS’ anticipated launch of its cloud datacentre...
