Buses and private jets: Viasat and the changing face of satcoms

In a busy week for the payments giant, Mastercard has announced an extended digital identity partnership in Africa and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) relating to a national payments ecosystem in Syria.

Ongoing efforts to make smartphones affordable to more Africans while still ensuring a margin for sellers are continuing. In fact, this week has seen an alliance between Africa’s best-known home-grown electronic marketplace and a financing group to enc…