[ad_1] Earlier this year, before Nigeria’s presidential election, I explored the manifestos of Peter Obi (LP), Bola Tinubu (APC), Atiku Abubakar (PDP) and Rabiu Kwankaso(NNPP) from the perspective of technology and by extension the digital economy. The article delved into their plans with respect to Nigeria’s tech community and how the country as a whole ...

[ad_1] The Navy’s top research organization  is “dedicated” to making it easier for small businesses to get contracts, the chief of naval research said Thursday. And, he said, if the process is “artificially hard,” companies should call him out on it.   “We have really, really worked hard to lower the barrier of entry and make ...

[ad_1] Shein acquired a stake in rival fast-fashion retailer Forever 21, expanding its online offerings and establish a brick-and-mortar store presence in the U.S. The Singapore-based retailer already generates a large portion of its sales in the U.S. It’s trying to shift to an Amazon-style marketplace where sellers can list their own products alongside those ...

[ad_1] The Africa Tech Festival Awards is taking place at the Bay Hotel in Camp’s Bay, Cape Town on 15 November 2023, to fête the achievements of some of the African technology, telecommunications, and media industry’s most illustrious pioneers and tech entrepreneurs. As awards ceremonies go, Africa Tech Festival’s are a standout, not only in ...

[ad_1] The B2B marketplace movement is hitting critical mass. Just about 16 years ago, there were likely about 75 B2B marketplaces serving a variety of mostly established industries such as automotive, health care and aviation, among a few others. But today the number of vertical market or industry marketplace has grown 6.7-fold in the last ...

[ad_1] Oro Inc. received $13 million recently in strategic growth funding in January. Now, Oro is using some of the new money to beef up hiring for its sales, technology and customer support staff. Oro develops open-source software technology designed to let software developers access its core software code to customize it. It provides open-source ...

[ad_1] Sigma Software Group, a Swedish and Ukrainian IT services firm serving a growing demand for ecommerce technology in Ukraine and neighboring Poland, is no stranger to handling market disruption. With much of its IT staff in Ukraine, Sigma Software is capitalizing on a return to growth in Ukrainian ecommerce this year after a steep ...

[ad_1] What’s clear from Deloitte’s Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey 2023 is that environmental and social governance (ESG) is now firmly on the corporate agenda. This year, it leapt right up the priority list, from seventh place to second.  Elevating ESG, however, is tough to deliver. In practice, it is hugely dependent upon good supplier ...