Guinea-Bissau established a pharmaceutical traceability system on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, when Public Health Minister Augusto Gomes authorized the national Track and Trace mandate. Antares Vision, an Italian technology provider, will deliver the framework through its Government Solutions platform. The National Drug Catalogue will serve as the central database for medicine oversight, and the regulatory authority ARFAME will manage operations.
The AVGroupHub digital platform opens for registration in early October 2025 for manufacturers, importers, wholesalers, distributors, and dispensers. Enforcement begins in March 2026, but the initiative already produces revenue for Antares Vision during 2025. The ministry will deploy inspection...
IFZA started Scale360 to help entrepreneurs expand operations in the United Arab Emirates market through a partnership with Plug and Play. The free program received 136 applications from global technology companies, and organizers narrowed selections to 56 candidates before choosing 17 ventures for the initial group. Participants begin on Monday, Sept. 29, and receive three months of mentorship, licensing assistance, and access to investors and government partners.
United Arab Emirates technology startups raised $872 million during the first quarter of 2025, representing an 865 percent increase from the previous year. Dubai attracted 135 percent more digital startups compared with the first quarter of 2024, and the city accounted for...
Africell Angola activated an artificial intelligence service that operates through text messages and mobile codes without requiring internet access. The platform delivers responses to questions about academic subjects, cultural information, science and technology. Subscribers pay 30 kwanzas daily, 90 kwanzas weekly, or 300 kwanzas monthly with 14 percent tax included. Users send designated words to 19321 or dial a specific code to receive answers on any mobile device.
The company offers one complimentary day for new customers to test the service. Subscriptions renew automatically when sufficient account balances exist, but customers may cancel anytime through messaging or mobile menus. The artificial intelligence tool provides homework...
The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi developed a 2-micrometer high-power fiber laser for medical and industrial applications. The Thulium-based system delivers precise performance in water-rich environments, and the compact modular design enables integration into surgical instruments for urinary stone treatment, prostate surgery, and urology procedures. The institute partnered with LIMA Photonics, a German medical technology startup, to commercialize the research and combine laser development capabilities with medical device design expertise. The effort advances Abu Dhabi's strategy to establish the United Arab Emirates as an advanced technology hub through the applied research division of the Advanced Technology Research...
Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC has launched a program to train 125,000 young Ethiopians in digital and cloud technology skills over a three-year period. The company partners with Amazon Web Services Skills Center and AWS Educate to deliver the training through Safaricom Ethiopia TechStart. The effort contributes to Vodacom Group's goal of preparing 1 million African youth for technology careers within three years.
Ethiopians aged 18 or older with active Safaricom SIM cards can enroll in the program. The Safaricom Ethiopia Foundation will cover certification costs for participants who complete courses with distinction. The program supports the nation's economic development through digital literacy education.
Cape Verde accelerates its digital economy through a World Bank-funded program targeting government modernization and competitive growth. The initiative establishes ambitious benchmarks for online service delivery, aiming for 60 percent coverage by 2026 and 80 percent by 2030. World Bank representatives conducted a support mission to coordinate implementation plans with national institutions. The collaboration focuses on aligning priorities for the project's next operational phase.
Digital Economy Minister Olavo Correia participated in discussions with World Bank officials, and Education Minister Amadeu Cruz and Digital Economy Secretary Pedro Lopes joined the meetings. The program extends support to micro and small enterprises...
Apaya partnered with GPayments to deliver fraud prevention tools to merchants in the Middle East and Africa. The collaboration allows businesses to activate 3D Secure authentication within minutes through Apaya's connector marketplace. GPayments provides its ActiveServer platform to reduce chargebacks and maintain compliance with EMVCo 3D Secure and Strong Customer Authentication standards. The integration eliminates barriers that kept smaller merchants from accessing enterprise security.
Merchants activate the service by selecting GPayments in the Apaya portal. The partnership tackles fraud threats as digital payment volumes near $10 trillion globally. Both firms will roll out enhanced features during 2025. The expansion aims to...
Samsung revealed its solid-state drive strategy at the Global Memory Innovation Forum in Shenzhen, and the company will ship a 256-terabyte PCIe Gen 6 model during early 2026. The PM1763 device delivers twice the speed of current products while consuming 25 watts of electricity. Engineers will release a 512-terabyte version in 2027 using the 1T EDSFF standard for data centers.
The manufacturer displayed a prototype in 2023, and a refined unit appeared at the Future of Memory Storage event in 2025. Designers revised the capacitor arrangement, controller placement, and memory chip layout to address thermal concerns. The seventh-generation Z-NAND technology with GIDS aims to reduce latency for artificial intelligence applications, but...
NVIDIA will release its GeForce RTX 50 Super graphics cards between March and May of 2026, and the launch will arrive before Computex begins in June. The company abandoned earlier plans for a January debut at CES. Three models will receive upgrades: the RTX 5080 Super, RTX 5070 Ti Super, and RTX 5070 Super.
Memory capacity increases across the lineup, with the RTX 5080 Super and RTX 5070 Ti Super receiving 24 gigabytes of GDDR7, and the RTX 5070 Super gaining 18 gigabytes. Additional CUDA cores will boost gaming performance, but manufacturers must redesign cooling systems to handle higher power consumption. NVIDIA has not issued project notices to board partners, which confirms production remains in planning stages. The Super refresh...
