Industry Verticals

Nigerian PC manufacturer Omatek Ventures has called on the country's government to institute policies that support local computer manufacturing.  read more »

Nigeria's first fully operational electronic transaction switching and payment processing platform, eTranzact, announced on Friday the patenting of its latest technology, the eTranzact CardlexCash ATM.  read more »

International fund manager Old Mutual Kenya has signed an agreement with mobile service provider Safaricom to use its M-PESA mobile money-transfer service to receive monthly contributions.  read more »

The 18-month wait for a more efficient system at Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) is finally over after a confirmed migration to the T24 system, supplied by Temenos of Switzerland.  read more »

Worried about poor online data management and certificate forgery among students, the Nigerian government has established the National Universities Commission Data Base (NUCDB).  read more »

MTN Nigeria has signed a five-year deal to provide First City Monument Bank (FCMB) with a WAN (wide area network), linking up to 89 of the bank's branches nationwide.  read more »

Kenya Airways has embarked on a campaign to improve network efficiency by interconnecting all of its offices in Africa, Asia and Europe via satellite.  read more »

The Zambia Revenue Authority has joined the growing list of African collection agencies to introduce e-banking services, allowing citizens to submit tax returns online and avoid queues.  read more »

Kenya Social Network, the country's top social-networking site, has set up a marketing team after receiving impressive inquiries from top companies wishing to advertise on the site.  read more »

A number of servers at the World Bank Group were repeatedly breached for more than a year by different intruders but it is not clear how much data might have been compromised in the attacks, Fox News reported Friday. The story, the details of which were contested by the World Bank after it ran, quotes unnamed sources as saying the banking group was victimized by at least six major intrusions from the Summer of 2007 through September of this year.  read more »