Author: Anita Bosman

Port Louis: TECHz – News Desk African payment service provider Peach Payments brings its merchants in Mauritius Apple Pay, a safer, more secure and private way to pay that helps customers avoid handing their payment card to someone else, touching physical buttons or exchanging cash, and uses the power of iPhone to protect every transaction. Every Apple Pay purchase is secure because it is authenticated with Face ID, Touch ID, or device passcode, as well as a one-time unique dynamic security code. Apple Pay is accepted in grocery stores, pharmacies, taxis, restaurants, coffee shops, retail stores, and many more places.…

Istanbul: TECHz – News Desk Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company, announced the expansion of its network in Istanbul, Türkiye, to meet growing demand for infrastructure capacity supporting businesses’ AI and digital transformation plans. Colt’s high‑performance infrastructure now connects to two established data centres in the city – one on Istanbul’s Asian side and the other on its European side – providing businesses with high‑capacity services built for AI‑driven workloads. Prior to the expansion, Colt operated a single Point of Presence (PoP) in Istanbul. The addition of a second PoP, combined with an upgrade of Colt’s network…

Singapore: TECHz – News Desk Trident Digital Tech Holdings Ltd., a Singapore-headquartered digital infrastructure and technology company, announced the strategic evolution of its corporate structure into a diversified multi-vertical holding company focused on sovereign digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI-enabled systems, digital commerce, and technology-driven economic modernization initiatives across Africa and Asia-Pacific markets. The Company’s expanded operating structure is designed around five strategic pillars intended to create an integrated ecosystem of scalable digital infrastructure platforms serving both public and private sector markets. Building upon the Company’s previously disclosed potential US$800 million Ghana joint venture revenue framework announced in April 2026, TDTH believes…

Geneva: TECHz – News Desk Cybercrime now operates through a complex ecosystem involving specialized actors, criminal marketplaces, and sophisticated monetization channels. Addressing this threat requires a bold, collaborative effort at the international level to in the fight against cybercrime. The ambition of the World Economic Forum-hosted Cybercrime Atlas initiative, ‘Cosmos’ is to create a shared universal ontology that maps, classifies and connects the components of the cybercriminal ecosystem, enabling law enforcement agencies, institutions, researchers, and private sector experts to collaboratively understand and disrupt global cybercriminal ecosystems. Orange Cyberdefense is playing a key role in the initiative, contributing its cyber threat…

London: TECHz – News Desk Tether, the largest company in the digital asset industry and issuer of USD₮, the world’s most widely used stablecoin, has announced an investment in LemFi, a financial platform serving millions of people who live and work across borders. This investment aims to promote financial inclusion and expand access to efficient, borderless financial systems, while accelerating the use of stablecoin-powered solutions in emerging markets. LemFi is one of the most trusted financial platforms globally, connecting communities across the UK, US, Canada, and Europe to family and loved ones in Africa and Asia. For millions of people…

Dubai: TECHz – News Desk Loyyal, the enterprise SaaS platform transforming loyalty and payments, announced the launch of GiftOS Point, its Artificial Intelligence powered & blockchain secured digital gift card platform designed for retailers, malls, D2C brands, enterprises, and ecommerce ecosystems globally. GiftOS Point enables businesses to launch and scale digital, physical, and phygital gift card programs with enterprise-grade security, intelligent automation, multilingual and multi-currency support, with global distribution capabilities. GiftOS Point is among the industry’s first enterprise platforms to combine AI-driven intelligence with blockchain-backed infrastructure for gift card issuance, management, and distribution. Built as a modern alternative to legacy…

Frankfurt: TECHz – News Desk Vodafone announced the successful completion of a trial using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud infrastructure to run key Internet of Things (IoT) voice and data network applications operating on Nokia core systems. Cloud technology helps Vodafone automate network expansion and scale capacity where customers need it most. Vodafone aims to add extra capacity in days using a cloud-based architecture that scales with demand, further extending the company’s global reach with additional points of presence to deliver services to more customers worldwide. In phase one, Vodafone, Nokia, and AWS deployed a proof of concept of Nokia’s…

Dubai: TECHz – News Desk ​• Yalla Q1 revenues reach AED 290.1 million while net income records AED 104.3 million. • Average Monthly Active Users (MAUs) grow by 7.7% to 48.0 million compared to 44.6 million in the corresponding period last year. ​Yang Tao • We delivered resilient first quarter results with revenues meeting our expectations given the shifting geopolitical environment. • 2026 will be a pivotal year for Yalla’s evolution as a leader in the MENA region’s digital transformation. Saifi Ismail • We achieved strong growth in average monthly active users. • Our operations continued to progress smoothly in…

Entebbe: TECHz – News Desk President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and operational licence agreement between the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) and Starlink, marking a key milestone toward the satellite internet provider’s planned entry into the Ugandan market. According to President Museveni, the agreement represents an important step in strengthening Uganda’s telecommunications sector, with a focus on enhancing security, improving revenue assurance, and ensuring accountability across service providers. The President emphasized that government’s priority is to ensure clarity on operators in the sector as well as transparency regarding customer activity within the…

Kigali: TECHz – News Desk The AI Skills and Compute Africa Foundation (AISCA Foundation) has officially launched in Kigali, marking a major step toward strengthening Africa’s artificial intelligence ecosystem. The initiative is designed to dismantle key barriers to AI innovation across the continent by improving access to compute resources, expanding skills development, supporting research, and fostering a collaborative AI community. Backed by seed funding from founding technology partner Cassava Technologies, the AISCA Foundation aims to bridge Africa’s long-standing “compute gap.” The goal is to enable African AI researchers and innovators to build world-class solutions locally, while also creating a scalable…