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Ethio Telecom partners with Subex for HyperSense AI services

Subex, a pioneer in Digital Trust, announced a partnership with Ethio Telecom, the leading telecom operator in Ethiopia, to provide its Business Assurance solution on its Enterprise AI platform, HyperSense. Through this engagement, Ethio telecom will expand its Revenue Assurance practice into Business Assurance using the solution’s easy-to-use control building framework and enhance decision making

February 10, 2022 • By Addis Insight

Business

Safaricom Is Set To Launch M-PESA Services In Ethiopia

M-PESA is making its way to Ethiopia, the State Minister of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Finance has confirmed. Safaricom received its first license of operation in Ethiopia last year, but it did not allow for the setting up of the M-PESA mobile financial service. The government of Ethiopia suspended bids for a second license of operations in

February 8, 2022 • By Addis Insight

Business

East Africa focused EdTech company, Ha Hu AG acquired angel investment from César Hidalgo, author of ‘Why Information Grows’.

Date: Zurich, Switzerland, 24 January 2022. Ha Hu AG, a gamified Edtech platform, announced César Hidalgo as their angel investor. Founded in 2021 by a young mother, who saw the need for simplified and gamified early education tools for African languages, the company was self-funded before accepting outside financing. Their app, HaHu Scripts debuted its

February 7, 2022 • By Addis Insight

Business

Ethio Telecom to sell mobile phones on credit with National Identity Guarantee

Ethio Telecom announced that it is preparing to sell smart phones on credit by using national ID as a guarantee.   He said the company has been selling mobile phones to insured employees for the past one year and has so far sold more than 10,000 phones.   Ethio Telecom’s Head of Sales, Mohamed Haji,

January 15, 2022 • By Addis Insight

News

Facebook to assess feasibility over the spread of violence in Ethiopia

Facebook stated the company would assess the feasibility of commissioning an independent human rights assessment into its work in Ethiopia. The board recommended reviewing how Facebook and Instagram have spread content that heightens the risk of violence there. Meta has been under pressure from lawmakers for user safety and its handling of abuses on its

January 14, 2022 • By Addis Insight

Tech

Twitter’s Ethiopian interventions may not have worked

Twitter’s decision to deactivate trending topics in Ethiopia did not reduce the volume or toxicity of tweets about the civil war @DFRLabFollowJan 13 · 5 min read By Megan A. Brown and Tessa Knight This piece first appeared in Tech Policy Press. On November 6, 2021, Twitter announced it was halting trending topics in Ethiopia due to the ongoing threat of

January 13, 2022 • By Addis Insight

Tech

Wegen Fund – the First Ethiopian Crowd Funding Online Platform

Given that charity is such an important aspect of the Ethiopian way of life, a platform as efficient as an online crowd funding would thrive in the country. Wegen Fund is doing just that. Created to cater to the specific Ethiopian need, Wegen Fund has now been launched. On their very interactive and easy-to-use website,

January 5, 2022 • By Addis Insight

Business

Four Ethiopian women among 100 most influential Africans in 2021

Mimi Alemayehou Spearheading Twitter’s thrust in AfricaEntrepreneurs After cutting her teeth in the US administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Mimi Alemayehou, an Ethiopia-born, Kenya-raised American development finance expert, is now making waves in the global private sector.In June, Alemayehou – who served as Executive Vice-President of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation

December 30, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Entrepreneurship

Qene Games Announces Launch of Kinet Store, Your One-Stop Shop for African Games

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dec. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Qene Games, one of the top gaming studios in Africa, is excited to announce the launch of the Kinet Store, your one-stop shop for African games.  Major smart device app stores such as the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store don’t support merchant accounts

December 29, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Culture

Meet Zinet Kemal: an Ethiopian Muslim American Lawyer, Published Author and Cybersecurity Professional

By Lolla Nur, Freelance Journalist Note: This interview took place in late November. Quotes have been lightly edited for readability and brevity.  Selam Zinet! Can you share more about who you are and what you do?  My name is Zinet Kemal. I’m a mom of four. I moved from Ethiopia eight years ago with my husband.

December 22, 2021 • By Addis Insight