Featured Vodafone Egypt pre-tax profits hit €652 million in FY2020/21 Nayera Eid May 18, 2021 0 Vodafone Egypt announced on Tuesday it posted profits before interest and tax worth €652 million (11.98 billion…
Tech news Amazon Payment Services waives service fees for Egypt SMEs to support c.bank initiative Nayera Eid Apr 14, 2021 0 Amazon Payment Services, a payment processing service in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, announced…
Featured Telecom Egypt, Sudanese telecom operator sign MoU to enhance international connectivity Nayera Eid Apr 14, 2021 0 Telecom Egypt and Sudatel Telecom Group (STG) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to boost cooperation in…
Featured Telecom Egypt is launching Hybrid Ring Path to link Africa with Europe by 2023 Nayera Eid Mar 3, 2021 0 State-run Telecom Egypt is planning to launch Hybrid African Ring Path (HARP) by 2023, a new subsea system circling…
Tech/AI Etisalat Misr, Huawei announce completion of the first VoLTE call over Huawei innovative… Nayera Eid Feb 24, 2021 0 Etisalat Egypt continues to use Huawei virtualised solution, after the deployment of virtual Evolved Packet Core in…
Tech/AI Egypt Post is bringing a new AI and GPS-powered logistics management software Nayera Eid Feb 24, 2021 0 Egypt Post is trialing a new artificial intelligence (AI) and GPS-powered logistics management software provided by…
Featured Telecom Egypt achieves 10% higher consolidated profits in 2020 Nayera Eid Feb 24, 2021 0 State-owned Telecom Egypt recorded 4.9 billion Egyptian pounds in net income in 2020, up 10 percent y-o-y and…
Featured Vodafone Egypt signs MoU to acquire 20% in fintech players Bee and Masary Nayera Eid Feb 24, 2021 0 Vodafone Egypt has signed on Wednesday a memorandum of understanding to acquire a 20 percent stake in each of Bee…
Featured Etisalat Misr: 2020 revenues grow 22% y-o-y Nayera Eid Feb 23, 2021 0 Etisalat Misr, the Egyptian unit of UAE’s Etisalat Group, reported on Tuesday a 22 percent year-on-year growth in…
Featured Orange Egypt says revenues grew 6.7% in 2020 Nayera Eid Feb 21, 2021 0 Orange Egypt reported on Sunday a 6.7 percent year-on-year increase in revenues to €891 million ($1.1 billion or…
Featured Egypt to sign deal with foreign firm to manufacture tablets locally soon – minister Nayera Eid Feb 9, 2021 0 Egypt is expected to sign an agreement within the first quarter of the year with one of the foreign firms to…
Featured Orange Business Services to design, build Cloud-based ICT infrastructure for Egypt’s new… Nayera Eid Feb 9, 2021 0 Orange Business Services, the business services arm of Orange, announced on Tuesday that it will design and build a…
Featured Vodafone Egypt service revenue grows to €371 million in Q3-FY21 Nayera Eid Feb 7, 2021 0 Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile operator, said on Thursday its service revenue in Egypt grew by 4.2…
Featured ICT Minister appoints 2 new Vice Presidents at ITIDA Nayera Eid Jan 31, 2021 0 Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat has issued a decree appointing two new…
Money Egypt’s micro-lending app Cassbana raises more than $1 million from Distruptech Fund Nayera Eid Jan 4, 2021 0 Egyptian microfinance startup Cassbana announced on Sunday it has raised more than $1 million in a funding round…
Tech/AI ICT sector contributes 4.4% to Egypt’s GDP in FY19/20 Nayera Eid Dec 26, 2020 0 The information and communications technology (ICT) sector has been one of the top growing sectors in Egypt…
Featured Vodafone UK names Egypt’s Ahmed Essam as new CEO Nayera Eid Dec 17, 2020 0 Vodafone, the world’s second-biggest mobile operator, has named Ahmed Essam, Egyptian national, as the new CEO of…
Featured UAE House of Experience set to launch Digital Mall in Egypt at end-February Nayera Eid Dec 7, 2020 0 The UAE House of Experience said on Sunday it is planning to launch the Digital Mall in Egypt by the end of next…
Featured Egypt’s Sisi opens 24th edition of leading technology conference CAIRO ICT Nayera Eid Nov 22, 2020 0 President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi inaugurate the 24th edition of Cairo International Communication and Technology…
unclassified Mobile wallets in Egypt rise 17 % during the pandemic, NTRA Nayera Eid Nov 19, 2020 0 The number of mobile wallets in Egypt has jumped at least 17 percent to 14.4 mn between March and October as the…
Featured Vodafone Egypt pre-tax profits at €316 million in H1-FY2020/21 Nayera Eid Nov 17, 2020 0 Vodafone Egypt said on Tuesday it posted profits before interest and tax worth €316 million (around 5.7 billion…
Featured Orange Egypt Q3 revenues grow to €226 million Nayera Eid Nov 15, 2020 0 Orange Egypt announced on Sunday that it had generated revenues worth €226 million approximately ($267.5 million or…
Featured Telecom Egypt sees EGP 3.5bn profit in 9M Nayera Eid Nov 12, 2020 0 Telecom Egypt achieved consolidated net profits of 3.53 billion Egyptian pounds during the first nine months of…
Featured STC, Vodafone UK are still in talks for Vodafone Egypt stakes Nayera Eid Nov 9, 2020 0 Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Vodafone UK are still in talks for the former to purchase the stakes of Vodafone…
Featured Etisalat Misr third-quarter revenues rise 18% year-on-year Nayera Eid Oct 22, 2020 0 Etisalat Misr, the Egyptian unit of Etisalat, sustained a quarterly revenue growth momentum, reporting an 18…
Featured LG Egypt to invest $50mn in manufacturing facilities over 3 years Nayera Eid Oct 13, 2020 0 LG Egypt to invest $50 million in manufacturing over the coming three years to boost its household appliance…
Featured Vodafone names Mohamed AbdAllah as new Egypt CEO Nayera Eid Oct 1, 2020 0 Vodafone, the world’s second-biggest mobile operator, has named Mohamed AbdAllah as its chief executive officer…
Featured Raya’s E-payment arm, Aman, will offer stakes in EGX next year Nayera Eid Sep 21, 2020 0 Raya Holding's electronic payment arm, Aman for E-payment Services will finish formulating a plan for an initial…
Featured Saudi Telecom says no agreement reached on Vodafone Egypt stake Nayera Eid Sep 13, 2020 0 Saudi Arabia’s largest telecoms operator, Saudi Telecom Company (STC) said on Sunday no deal has been reached to…
Featured Saudi Telecom likely to cut cash offer for Vodafone Egypt by 30% – analyst Nayera Eid Sep 8, 2020 0 Saudi Arabia’s largest telecoms operator Saudi Telecom Co (STC) is expected to cut its non-binding $2.39 billion…
Featured Egypt first country to receive Uber’s intercity bus service in Nayera Eid Jul 20, 2020 0 Uber announced the launch of its first ever intercity bus service in Egypt with roundtrip routes between Cairo and…
Featured Egypt’s NTRA imposes an extra 5 percent on imported mobile phones Nayera Eid Jul 1, 2020 0 Egypt’s National Telecommunications Regulations Authority (NTRA) has imposed an extra charge of 5 percent on all…
Tech/AI OPPO pledges EGP 5 million to support Egyptian families affected by coronavirus Nayera Eid Jun 22, 2020 0 Chinese smartphone maker OPPO is donating 5 million Egyptian pounds ($308,362) in form of food boxes to support…
Featured Jumia says e-commerce rises 80% in Egypt amid coronavirus outbreak Nayera Eid Jun 17, 2020 0 E-commerce sales in Egypt have gone up 80 percent within three months amid the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, says…
Tech/AI Careem sees recovery in Middle East business after 80% slump due to coronavirus –… Nayera Eid Jun 10, 2020 0 Careem Inc.’s ride-hailing business is seeing a recovery as governments in the Middle East began easing…
Featured Raya Foods expects 20% annual growth over 5 years despite coronavirus Nayera Eid Jun 7, 2020 0 Raya Foods, a subsidiary of Raya Holding for Financial Investments, expects an annual growth of 20 percent over the…
Tech/AI TikTok takes issue of safety seriously for users Nayera Eid Jun 4, 2020 0 TikTok takes the issue of safety seriously for all its users and continues to further strengthen its safeguards…
Tech/AI 57 areas across Egypt suffer poor connections during April Nayera Eid Jun 3, 2020 0 The National Center for ICT Services Quality Control at the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA)…
Featured OPPO commits EGP 5 million to support irregular workers in Egypt affected by coronavirus Nayera Eid Jun 1, 2020 0 Chinese smartphone maker OPPO has donated 5 million Egyptian pounds ($316,732) to support irregular workers in…
Featured Facebook Shops – a new feature to help small businesses amid coronavirus – seen in Egypt… Nayera Eid May 21, 2020 0 Facebook Shops – a new service Facebook announced on Tuesday to allow businesses to display and sell products on…