The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and Microsoft have signed an MoU covering COMESA’s 19 member states
Commerce
GroupM buys majority stake in South Africa’s Yonder Media
Global media investment group WPP’s GroupM has acquired a majority stake in Yonder Media, South Africa’s specialised mobile marketing agency
Senegal gets US$78.13mn for digital technology park
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is injecting US$78.13mn in Senegal’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector
Ugandan company awards cloud, IT services deal to IBM
Ugandan IT services provider Infinity Computers (I3C) has chosen IBM to deliver cloud, analytics and IT services for its clients
M2M management platform developed by Alcatel-Lucent
Machine-to-machine communications management can be much more effective with off-premise infrastructure