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Orange is heading to profitability this year after years of losses
We are in an alliance with the AOI and Fawry to operate electric mass transit buses: Shaker

16,500 young people trained, 9,000 jobs created in 2019: ITIDA
16 startups graduated and 22 other companies were received through the business incubator programme: CEO

SAP, Microsoft to carry out digital transformation of 60 public enterprises
Fiber Misr, Wadi El Nile, and Atos act as systems integrator responsible for project implementation

98% of Millennials have smartphones: research
According to the Global Web Index data, the Millennials spend an average of 2.43 hours a day on social media, with YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram as the top three social media platforms.

Annual mobile phone sales likely to reach 15m units in Egypt: MediaTek
We are working with US-based KaiOS Technologies to create an operating system for smartphones with a maximum price of $20 per unit, says Rami Othman

InsurTech Egypt promotes insurance technology, launches its first hackathon “InsurHack”
Germany’s development agency GIZ, on behalf the German government, announced the launch of “InsurTech Egypt” platform initiating “InsurHack”, the first insurance technology hackathon – a design sprint-like event – in Egypt, which tackles challenges that face the insurance industry. According to the Financial Regulatory Authority, the insurance industry is estimated to represent almost 0.91% of …

Etisalat achieves EGP 4bn profit in nine months
Revenues for the third quarter were about EGP 2.4bn, compared to EGP 1.8bn in the same period last year, according to the company’s results.

Egypt tops the list of countries concluding financing deals in MENA: MAGNiTT
The report stated that about 354 investment deals worth $517m were concluded in the third quarter (3Q) of this year, an increase of 30% in the value of funds from last year, and 3% in the number of deals concluded.

Can’t Access a Website? (Here Are 5 Ways You Can Unblock It)
Upset you can’t access the website you want to watch your favorite shows or catch the latest news? No problem – here’s what you can do to unblock them.

Orange, Huawei release vEPC for better service for Egyptian customers
Orange Egypt is the first in Egypt and the first Orange-affiliate to go virtual with business-critical function (Packet Core) on a mass market use case (Entire network swap/modernisation).

Noon launches yellow Friday discounts in Egypt
General Manager of Noon Egypt Mustafa Hendawi said that the company would offer the instalment service during the Yellow Friday discounts.

Andela, ITIDA agree to train and employ 200 Egyptian software engineers
Andela recently launches operations in Egypt

Huawei expects 500 million 5G users within three years of service launch
Huawei successfully demonstrated with Telecom Egypt a 5G application through a 5G-enabled 360 camera and VR: Chief Strategy Officer of Wireless Product Line

Minister of Communications inspects Knowledge City’s construction progress in NAC
The city is currently being built on an area of 211 feddans to be the headquarters of research and innovation centres specialised in advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, integrated systems, and others.

Portugal’s Web Summit sees 7 promising Egyptian startups
Khalil Hassan Khalil, head of ITFEDCOC, said that the division is keen to participate in international events and conferences interested in the sector of technology and entrepreneurship, such as the CES conference in Las Vegas.

Uber denies negative user experiences circulating on social media
They are not Uber drivers, they’re independent, third-party transportation providers, says Valentino

Mobile internet users to reach 5 billion by 2025: GSMA
MENA subscription to hit 69%, smartphone adoption to record 74% by 2025

How can Egypt benefit from the roll-out of the 5G network?
Relative to gaining regional influence, the country’s prioritized instrument has and will continue to be the tourism sector as tourist’s arrivals increased by 30% in 2019

ITIDA collaborates with RiseUp to launch ITIDA’s first all-Africa pitch competition
Winners would receive grants totalling $60,000

Digital transformation to increase Egypt’s competitiveness: Communications Minister
Automation of 170 services nationwide in 36 months at a cost of EGP 8bn, says Amr Talaat

SAS, SciSports maximise AI to open new horizons for sports
Company collaborates with 50 professional football organisations around the world

Aiming to eliminate space constraints, Japanese airline unveils robot avatars
Company hopes it will replace flying, allow elderly and those with disabilities to fully participate in society

Mondia enhances its presence with the opening of a new tech hub in Cairo
Mondia, a leading private mobile technology company, announced the opening of their new tech hub in Cairo. The newly created facility will host the company’s technical developers and designers, creating state of the art technologies,

TikTok marks massive success in Egyptian market
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are the most three important market for TikTok currently, says regional communication director

Lenovo targets 40% market share in gaming laptops, 35% across all PCs in Egypt: Rony Mezeraani
Lenovo unveils Legion Y540, L-340 gaming laptops

LG Electronics inaugurates 1st integrated campus in Egypt on Thursday
Campus to include training academy, AI products’ store, say sources

ITIDA hosts first-ever shared services, outsourcing forum in Egypt on 3-4 September
The event comes in line with Egypt’s vision to strengthen its position as EMEA’s countries’ shared services and outsourcing hub. The forum is officially supported by Egypt’s Minister of Communications & Information Technology, Amr Talaat, who will be delivering the opening speech.

2nd edition of E-commerce summit to tackle fintech, digital transformation in Egypt
The most advanced fintech players in the Egyptian market are the payment service providers and mobile wallets and both have been widely adopted by banks and telecom providers.

Cybersecurity transformation in 2019 and beyond
I’d like to tell you a short story. When working with a client on its security provision, we discovered that it had only devoted 4% of its total IT budget to cybersecurity. “Let’s develop a solution with this 4%,” said the client. It was only at that moment that I realized that cybersecurity is often …

Software lies at heart of digital transformation, software-driven, open 5G infrastructure to enable quicker ROI: Juniper Networks CEO
Egyptian Government clearly really ‘gets’ the social and economic value that a digital transformation can deliver, says Rahim