• Monday, 26 November 2018

    Gov’t to launch debit card Meeza in 2Q2019

    The government aims to launch its “Meeza” debit card in 2Q2019, beginning with subsidy payments, CIT Minister Amr Talaat told Masrawy. The government plans for Meeza to act as a single platform through which citizens would be able to access...
  • Thursday, 15 November 2018

    What we’re tracking on 16 November, 2018

    We’ve done this 1,000 times now: You’re reading the 1000th issue of Enterprise this morning. We’re not going to make a lot of hoopla over it, but want each and every one of you to know how deeply we value...
  • Thursday, 8 November 2018

    Fawry Plus signs with 13 major Egyptian banks to offer banking services

    E-payments outlet Fawry Plus signed contracts with 13 local banks, including CIB and the National Bank of Egypt, to start offering limited banking services to the banks’ customers before year-end, a source from the company told Al Mal. The service...
  • Thursday, 8 November 2018

    Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet

    Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet, saying a different design could save 500k lives and USD 233 bn a year, according to Bloomberg. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded USD 200 mn-worth of sanitation research and presented...
  • Wednesday, 7 November 2018

    UberEats is accepting cash in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and South Africa

    UberEats is accepting cash in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and South Africa as it looks to grow in cash-based economies, Rodrigo Arévalo, head of UberEats in the EMEA region, told Bloomberg as part of a wider-ranging story. Some 94% of Uber’s...
  • Thursday, 25 October 2018

    Mobile app Dawar wants to make a buck cleaning Cairo’s streets of garbage

    ** #7 Next time you spot garbage in Cairo, take out your phone and let Dawar know. Dawar is a new waste recycling mobile app that allows users to send pictures of garbage in the street to notify Dawar’s team,...
  • Thursday, 25 October 2018

    New technology gives push to Africa’s agriculture industry

    Tech startups are helping improve Africa’s agriculture industry and could lift mns out of poverty, according to the FT.Africa’s agriculture industry is being held back by traditional equipment and outdated tech, but new technology has in recent years had a...
  • Wednesday, 24 October 2018

    From guided missiles to guided ubers, the history of GPS

    From guided missiles to guided Ubers, this is the history of GPS: GPS was first invented to help the US catch up with the Soviets in the Cold War space race after the latter launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made...

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