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We launched new service via WhatsApp, says company’s CEO
Accept begins its foreign expansion with Jordan
Company believes Jordan is a promising market and has sustainable opportunities
57% increase in TE’s debts in H1 2018
EGP 8.3bn net debts of the company
ITIDA represents Egypt, partakes in 38th GITEX Technology Week
32 local ICT companies to participate in week
Communications minister witnessed launch of ‘Developing Comprehensive, Creative Economies’ programme
MCIT carrying out study with programme on cooperation aspects to use communication, information technology tools to contribute towards reaching an integrated creative economy
Mobile subscribers in Egypt down 3.4%, mobile internet users up 4.2% in Q2 2018
Internet market added 3 million new consumers in Q2, number of internet users reached 42 million in Q2 compared to 39 million in Q1
Network International banks integrate Egypt’s Meeza payment scheme
NI partner banks among first acquiring banks in Egypt to integrate national payments scheme
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Samsung starts delivering new tablet shipment to Egyptian government
Devices have Knox MDM software to secure data, manage content
Vodafone leads mobile operators’ losses, with 345,800 clients lost in June
Number of modem devices remained stable at 3.48m, number of landline users increased by 1.5%
Samsung acquires largest market share of mobile sales in Egypt in September 2018
Huawei continues to march towards top with 17.3% share
Azure Stack eliminates challenges facing data centre industry
New technology overcomes problem of information sovereignty: El Salmy
Huawei fights dirty to raise ‘Nova 3i’ sales
Company said it prefers if customers provide video saying they decided to switch to Nova 3i instead of F9
TE secures EGP 22bn worth revenues from long-term contracts with mobile operators
Capacity sales’ revenues grew in H1 2018
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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence part 1:The New Power Within Reach
Each daily minute, 3.9m Google searches, 4.3m YouTube videos,13m text messages, 2.1m snaps, 1 million passengers on aeroplanes, $ 330,000 Amazon sales, 73,249 online retail transactions, 750,000 songs streamed, 49,380 Instagram photos, 159m emails sent
MENA’s 1st e-commerce summit focuses on latest industry trends, innovations, future technologies
Summit invited 2,500 industrial, commercial, financial, service sector leaders, as well as IT experts
How digital learning can improve education
Investment in digital learning has grown to over $22bn between 2015-2017, as per Metaari report
Oppo plans to enter Saudi market next November
Company is now operating in 33 countries, plans to increase scope of operation, obtain more market share
Mobile market lost 800,000 subscribers in June
Internet attracts 1.6 million new clients
Jumia contracts with Aman to provide instalment payment services
Payment facilities become very common recently, hence Jumia aims to allow its customer to purchase online unique and diverse products through instalment payment service
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KMG launches regional expansion strategy, sets smart service centres for maintenance
On the KMG strategy to enhance the presence of new players in the mobile market, Ghoneim pointed out that the strategy depends on several axes; the first and most important of which is the provision of after-sales and maintenance services nationwide so as to be closer to the company’s customers
Honeywell UOP’s Oleflex technology has been selected for 52 out of 64 propane projects
Egypt considered as top consumer of polypropylene in Africa, consuming about 4.4 kg per capita, growing by more than 5% annually through 2022
China dominates feature phone shipments globally
Chinese companies’ dominance of mobile phone industry was not limited to smartphones, but extended to feature phones.
Chinese companies account for largest mid-range smartphone market share
Oppo led Chinese top selling smartphone companies, with a market share of 22% of mid-range smartphone sales, whose prices range from $400 to $600.
Map of Chinese companies’ smartphone sales globally
Chinese companies take over the largest share of the sales of smartphones in Africa, where the total share of Chinese companies’ smartphone sales is estimated to be 59%.
Chinese companies dominate smartphone market sales in Egypt
Chinese smartphone companies control over a third of the sales of the Egyptian market, according to StatCounter’s index in August.
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Raya Contact Center Announces Incorporating new mega facility in West Cairo’s Smart Village Business Park
Raya Contact Center, the Egyptian provider of comprehensive business process outsourcing (BPO) services, announced signing a long-term lease agreement to rent a 8,400 sqm semi-finished facility in West-Cairo’s Smart Village business park. This new mega facility is expected to host 1,500 workstation/seat capacity, which would be utilised in serving the growing demand for offshore BPO …
Vezeeta collects $12m in funding from STV Capital
We plan to boost services in Saudi Arabia, launch new products, says Barsoum
CIT chooses two digital game developers to join Ibdaa incubator
This year, the number of participants reached 560, with a total of 40 independent games. Only 14 games were selected to participate in the exhibition
Teradix launches at sixth annual ‘Cloud Weekend’ Egypt
500 IT decision makers, top executives attended
Decline in lines’ sales affects revenues of state telecommunications sector: Hegazy
Sector witnessed positive changes in last period, notably launch of 4G