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CEO of Fawry in dialogue with Daily News Egypt:
Value of financial transactions made through Fawry’s service $571m; 40 thousand outlets across the country for e-payment; one million transactions made daily through the company’s services; plans to expand to Arab Gulf countries in the coming period.
Information tech to double growth rate by 2020: Ministry of Communications
Ministry announces three initiatives to improve Egyptâs digital economy
Telecom Egypt agrees to pay EGP 2.5bn for mobile licence
Reuters – Fixed line monopoly operator Telecom Egyptâs board of directors agreed to pay EGP 2.5bn ($356.76m) for a mobile licence, the firm said in a statement on Monday. The telecommunications minister announced last month that Telecom Egypt was offered a mobile licence for EGP 2.5bn but that it would not include new frequencies, such …

Visa collaborating with government on online payment services: Visa’s general manager
Daily News Egypt interviews the General Manager of Visa in the North and Francophone Africa region Tarek Elhousseiny

Government striving to restructure energy subsidies: Assistant to Minister of Finance
The current interim government intends to reach a solution for the subsidies problem before it is replaced
Assiut aqueduct project to offer national benefits
The project will benefit 18 million Egyptians and improve the irrigation system for over 1.6 million acres of land

Technology IPOs pickup in Q3 2013
Back-to-school season helps push technology companiesâ IPOs up.

Google launches new online video advice service
Those benefitting from these advice sessions, called Helpouts, will pay the experts providing them either by the minute or by the session, depending on the latterâs preference, and using Google Wallet.

Information Technology growth goal
Minister of Communications Atif Halmi says government seeks 10% growth in IT sector by end of fiscal year

Tourism in the news: $60,000 in daily losses for hot air balloon companies in Luxor
The recent hot air balloon accident forced the government to halt its services

Doctors’ strike begins
Doctors demand increased wages, security, budget and overall better services
British aid creating âpoverty baronsâ
British aid making consultants millionaires
Qualcomm 2012 Innovation Conference features the âfuture of mobile technologyâ
The brightest minds in the ‘mobile ecosystem’ recently gathered in Berlin to promote innovation in the mobile phone industry. The annual Qualcomm 2012 Conference on Innovation (IQ2012) in the mobile industry concluded recently. Qualcomm sought to highlight hands-on access to the latest in mobile technology, products and services as well as insight to “the future …

Morsyâs âClean Homelandâ plan met with skepticism
Morsyâs 100-day campaign relying on popular and reluctant participation