Technology reshapes future of desalination industry in Egypt: Metito senior managers
Technology played key role in reducing costs, allowing us to grow fast, steady, says Karim Madwar
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NREA should be separated from Electricity Ministry: CES founder
The government’s plan to turn Egypt into a regional energy hub is a good initiative, but needs two things, first enhancing the electricity grid with more substations to be able add more renewable energy projects, the second thing is having a clear regulatory framework to attract more investors to the local market and that can …
MENA region is the next market for solar energy: chief representative of Sungrow Middle East DMCC
Founded back in 1997 by a university professor Cao Renxian, sungrow is one of the largest inverter solution supplier for renewables with over 70 Giga Watt installed worldwide, the company opened their MENA office in Dubai, and has installed 400 MW in the region. The company has been commissioned a 142 MW project at Benban …
Philips implements its new company name in Egypt, targeting EPG 1bn revenues in 2019
Philips Lighting started to implement its new company name, Signify, in Egypt. The company will continue to use the Philips brand for its products under the existing licencing agreement with Royal Philips, and the company considers Egypt as an important regional hub to increase its exports to northern and eastern Africa in the growth plans for …
Egypt on right track toward renewable energy, yet it needs to exert more effort: experts
With a plan to be a regional energy hub, Egypt is building a hydroelectricity power plant, a nuclear power plant, a wind farm, and solar power plants, aiming to increase its use of renewable energy to 22% by 2020. Experts see the government’s effort as impressive, they yet believe there are some issues that need …
Egypt on right track toward renewable energy, yet it needs to exert more effort: experts
With a plan to be a regional energy hub, Egypt is building a hydroelectricity power plant, a nuclear power plant, a wind farm, and solar power plants, aiming to increase its use of renewable energy to 22% by 2020. Experts see the government’s effort as impressive, they yet believe there are some issues that need …
World’s increasing electricity demand creates room for solar, traditional energy: CCC Senior Manager
One billion people suffer from shortage of electricity globally
Startup aims to deliver clean energy to off-grid communities in Africa
Exploding interest in solar energy in MENA region in last 5 years; it became competitive, says Parets
China’s GCL negotiates with Military Production Ministry to establish solar panel complex
Chinese company bids to launch 600MW solar energy plants
TE will receive EGP 5.5bn of shares in Vodafone revenues
Two companies sign cooperation protocol witnessed by ICT minister
Attempt to end dilemma of fixing cars in Egypt
Meet creators of Mekaneeky app
German Senvion to build $1bn windfarm in Egypt
Alfanar allocates $400m to build 300MW wind power projects
Orange Egypt launches new sports service as 2019 AFCON approaches
We are proud of collaboration with Emam, sponsoring football comes as part of group’s strategy, says Pierre Etienne Cizeron
NTRA licences Etisalat Misr to provide triple-play services in compounds
The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has granted the mobile network operator, Etisalat Misr, a triple-play telecom licence that allows the firm to provide mobile and landline services, high-speed broadband, and fiber-optic TV services. NTRA’s Acting Executive President, Mostafa Abdel Wahed, and CEO of Etisalat Misr, Hazem Metwally, has singed the license agreement. “We are …
Schneider Electric applies EcoStruxure to reduce carbon footprint
Schneider Electric has revealed the deployment of its EcoStruxure Facility Advisor solution, which helps monitor energy use and asset availability and enhance efficiency. The firm provides the giant retailer Carrefour in Egypt with this technology solution to reduce its carbon footprint. EcoStruxure Facility Advisor is a cloud–based platform which provides insights on consumption and alerts …
Trump signs executive order to prioritise, promote AI
One big motivator of new AI drive, China
Talaat witnesses signing of partnerships in ICT sector during WGS 2019
Programme aims to equip 100 trainees per year, to meet requirements of labour market, provide them with job opportunities in companies specialised in this field
AFCON gives Egypt good opportunity to use digital payment: GSMA
Mobile money could help government reach people who were previously financially excluded, says Swanepoel
World marks SID under ‘Together for better internet’ slogan
Google provides tips for enhanced safety during online surfing
Biologists use GPS-GSM technology to track Egyptian endangered vulture
As with many other raptors, death was linked to human activity
Future of cash: will it become obsolete?
Transforming Egypt into a digital society starts with online payments
Uber users face technical problems in Cairo
Many users of Uber, the US based ride-hailing application, said they experienced technical problems in using the service. The company has not yet revealed the reasons behind this issue. “It doesn’t work. Both Uber website and app are down. I don’t know what is going on,” an Uber user, who has faced some problems in …
Hackers attack targets in Middle East through Google Drive via Excel documents
Researchers at 360’s Threat Intelligence Centre (360 TIC) identified attacks carried out by a group called DarkHydrus advanced persistent threat (APT), against targets in the Middle East of political value, luring them with Excel documents laced with malicious VBA code (macro). Macro are disabled by default in the Microsoft Office suite for security reasons, and …
GSMA announces nominees for 2019 GLOMO awards
Awards judged by independent experts, analysts, journalists, academics
Amazon introduces its e-readers to Egyptian market
Users can personalise reading settings on Kindle devices with selection of fonts, font sizes, text alignment options
Egypt hosts second FIGI Symposium
Theme for 2019 ‘Enabling Inclusive Digital Financial Services Ecosystems: National, Thematic Insights’
Ready for business, meet 5 tech startup aces in Egypt 2019 Pitch Competition
Jury impressed by participating startups with clear plan to grow, profit
GSMA announces details of MWC19 Barcelona
‘Attendees will have opportunity to hear from leaders who are driving innovation,’ says Hoffman
Huawei launches its long-awaited MateBook in Egypt
“We pushed boundaries of what technology capable of, with new Huawei MateBook X Pro,” says Richard Yu
Smartphones’ giants face challenges in 2019
Apple lost $500bn in market value in past 3 months, giving title of world’s most prized company to Amazon