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Africa's affordable smartphone dilemma is the biggest facing the medium since Kelly tried to text Nelly on an Excel sheet. Source: Youtube/Vevo

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Bidvest Mobility scoops the Honeywell Partner of the Year Award

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Facebook puts an end to live shopping feature

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Are African banks at last going digital?

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French ride-hailing app aims to reinvent taxis experience in Senegal

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Sendbox raises $1.8m to digitise deliveries for African SMEs

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#EcomAfrica: How to build a successful e-commerce business

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Google to invest $1bn in digital transformation in Africa

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Africa continues to be hard hit by mobile fraud

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New Google report reveals a booming African mobile app market

New Google report reveals a booming African mobile app market

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Nigeria bans Twitter in the country days after president's post is removed

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Vodacom hit by Ethiopia network roll-out

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Bidvest Mobility scoops the Honeywell Partner of the Year Award

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Bidvest Mobility 16 Aug 2022

Facebook puts an end to live shopping feature

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Source: Supplied

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Source: © patrick de grijs

Nigeria to regulate online platforms

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Source: Supplied. FNB chief executive officer, Jacques Celliers.

FNB Connect named best digital MVNO in the world

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Source: REUTERS.

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Are African banks at last going digital?

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EXCLUSIVE: Meta's Moon Baz on the rise of Facebook Reels

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French ride-hailing app aims to reinvent taxis experience in Senegal

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Newspapers are pictured after Nigeria government announced the lifting of Twitter ban in Abuja, Nigeria, 13 January 2022. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde

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TikTok hits one billion users

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Burkina Faso restricts social media

23 Nov 2021

Source: © vystekphotographie

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Source: ©Sergey Skripnikov

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Google to invest $1bn in digital transformation in Africa

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Total number of mobile phone users hit nearly 5.3 billion

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New Google report reveals a booming African mobile app market

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