Here's a trick question: where is Europe's spaceport? Answer: It's in Europe. Right? Well, yes. But actually … not quite. You see, "Europe's spaceport," as it is indeed sold, is in French Guiana. Technically, that is in Europe. French Guiana is a French colony, making it a European, or EU, jurisdiction - which is great if you happen to be there on a European cell phone plan because EU Roaming applies. Yeah! But geographically, the Guiana Space Centre is in South America, right next door to Brazil.

Head of Retail Banking at the Bank of Alexandria (AlexBank) Sherif Lokman said that customers of Vodafone Cash are expected to reach 5 million by the middle of 2019, up from 3 million now. Head of retail sales at Vodafone Egypt, Karim Shehata, said that the company, in cooperation with AlexBank, reached an agreement with the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to include companies as beneficiaries of the service, instead of confining clients to individuals only.

The Paris Agreement remains on track. Talks in Bonn went 12 hours into overtime as participants reached an agreement on climate finance. But now comes the tough part. The bar was low for this year s United Nations climate summit in Bonn — anything keeping the momentum of the Paris process going was to be deemed a success. And after two weeks of steady progress, delegates can leave Bonn pleased with the results.

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) revealed, in a report, an increase in the number of internet users in Egypt to 33.19 million in April 2017, compared to 30.45 million in March and 26.8 million in April 2016. The report showed that the number of ADSL subscribers rose to 4.57 million in April 2017, up by 1.77% on a monthly basis and 12.74% on an annual basis, compared to 4.49 million in March of the same year and 4.05 million in April 2016.

Televisions sales in the Egyptian market reached 100,000 devices in September, according to the German market research institute GfK, while Samsung topped the market with a share of 35% maintaining its top spot in the Egyptian market. “The Samsung screen factory in Beni Suef has contributed significantly to launching products with world-class technology at competitive prices, which helped us to be the leading company in sales in the Egyptian market in the television sector,” said Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for Samsung Electronics Egypt Sherif Barakat.

The Parliament s Education and Scientific Research Committee officially approved on Sunday to establish an Egyptian Space Agency after a draft law was put forth by the government on establishing such agency. The agency will partly be funded through appropriations allocated by the state, profits achieved by the agency itself, as well as loans and grants approved by the agency s board of directors.

A cargo mission has launched from Virginia taking 7,400 pounds of supplies for astronauts. Some 80 ice cream treats as well as a VR camera for a National Geographic documentary are on their way into space. Orbital ATK s Antares rocket lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017 (picture-alliance/AP Photo/S. Helber) A "Cygnus" supply capsule blasted off from Wallops Island, in the US state of Virginia, on Sunday heading for the International Space Station.

Bango, the company specialised in mobile payments, has announced that it will expand its operations in Africa by partnering with Victory Link in Egypt. As a result of this new relationship, stores that use the Bango platform and its merchant partners will be able to spread payments via mobile bills of the three mobile operators in Egypt: Vodafone, Orange, and Etisalat.

Global mobile usage has tripled over the last five years, as noted by GSM Association (GSMA), a trade body consisting of international mobile operators. With the skyrocketing number of mobile phone users, text messaging remains one of the most interactive channels for key mobile operators today—making the next-generation, GSMA-initiated Rich Communication Suite (RCS) a major platform in enriching the SMS experience, and thus, making it an attractive proposition for many end users. RCS, also known as the advanced SMS messaging protocol, is said to be the future of the modern mobile market. It will permanently alter the global mobile landscape by providing customers with simple yet rich user experiences through many up-to-date communication and multimedia capabilities. Airlines, for example, can benefit largely from these services by sending message reminders to their passengers, complete with rich media experiences, including visual updates. In addition, passengers can easily interact with the coming messages to check in, change their seats, etc. Many brands will likely take full advantage of such capabilities.

Alexandrian commuters have cause to celebrate after ride-sharing app Swvl, which recently swept onto Egypt s transportation scene, announced its expansion to the city by the sea. Routes are now available from al-Raml station, Maamoura, Semouha and Fouad street, Swvl told Egypt Independent.

Social media platform Facebook has rewarded a young Egyptian engineer from Luxor for discovering loopholes in its security system. Engineer Mohamed Abdel Al Aty has been added to Facebook’s list of honor for his contribution to the social media platform.

Knockmart Food Industries and Jumia Egypt announced in a joint statement on Sunday that they have entered into a strategic partnership by launching Jumia Fresh, set to become the largest grocery and home appliance platform online. Hesham Safwat, CEO of Jumia Egypt, said that the partnership with Knockmart was formed within the framework of Jumia’s plan to develop their services and to make a significant breakthrough in online purchasing by contracting the leading companies in the field of e-commerce. He pointed out that cooperation will contribute to creating a common vision that will always drive towards the modernization of procurement mechanisms.

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, conducted a survey in partnership with Enterprise, the daily e-news round-up of economics, business, and most important news, which was designed to uncover the threat of ransomware in Egypt. Aimed at top business leaders, a quarter of the survey respondents were c- suite executives, while about 30 percent were either IT directors or staff, and 2 percent were dedicated Internet security specialists.

The employees of Telecommunication Engineering Concepts: in Building Solution (IBS), which provides technical services to Telecom Egypt (TE) and TE Data, to join Telecom Egypt as professionals. According to one of the technicians working at the company, there is a special unit to provide technical services to the Egyptian Telecom and TE Data only in the company IBS of about 10,000 employees, and thus serve as technicians instead of the technician of Telecom Egypt.

Japanese electronics giant Sony is marking the year of the dog by bringing back to life its robot canine — packed with artificial intelligence and internet capability. Sony’s new “aibo” dog is an ivory-white puppy-sized, 30 centimetre (one foot) hound with flapping black ears and a wagging tail. It has the ability to roll its eyes to display emotions.

The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) launched the Africa Together programme to boost Egyptian IT companies exports. The programme comes in cooperation with the International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. Africa Together is part of ITIDA s go-to-market strategy to help Egyptian companies penetrate high-growth markets across Africa through a joint partnership, enhancing ICT industry as a key contributor to the country s economic growth. Africa Together will help in matching the capabilities of Egyptian ICT companies with the needs of end-user companies in Africa. This matchmaking process will culminate in an event, where IDC will bring Egyptian ICT players together with leading end-user organisations and channels from the West and East African regions to discuss future cooperation and partnerships. All Egyptian IT firms are welcomed to apply for the programme.

Egypt signed an agreement on Sunday for the construction of 13 solar-power plants in Aswan financed by a consortium led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), according to a press statement issued Sunday. The plants will cost a total of $823 million to build, IFC said in a release. Generating up to 752 megawatts of solar power, the Nubian Suns Feed-in-Tariff Financing Program is targeted to provide power to more than 350,000 residents and create up to 6,000 jobs during construction.

At a time when only two countries in the world are non-signatories of the Paris Agreement, Sparknews is bringing major economic newspapers together for the publication of a third annual edition of Solutions&Co, this time dedicated to business solutions for the climate.

Workers can spend anywhere from 5 minutes to 40 hours a week going through simple tasks on a smartphone, making AI all over the world more intelligent and efficient. By building platforms and crowd sourcing a large supply of workers, the companies that train AI were smart to realize the data needed could be processed by anyone with steady access to the internet. Read more: Will AI change the future of music? From this developed companies like Clickwork, Neurala, and Alegion Inc., which utilize "human taggers" to push AI education. With over a million "clickworkers" signed up, there s an estimated 100,000 people logged on at this very moment, sifting through droves of information and lending a human touch to robot training.

While Albert Einstein’s theory of happiness may be relative, it fetched $1.3 million at a Jerusalem auction on Tuesday. The Nobel-winning scientist’s musings, handwritten on a note, may not be as famous as his groundbreaking theory of relativity, but they still shed light on one of the great modern minds.

Don t let his title fool you. The "Head Cheese" of the Lunar Embassy is a clear-thinking, straight-shooting kind of guy. At least he appears that way over a shaky cellphone line from Nevada to Bonn, Germany. And so if you ask Dr. Dennis M. Hope to tell you who he thinks owns space, he ll answer with a simple: "I do!" That s right: Hope and his customers (or are they followers?) own all the planetary bodies in our solar system. And they intend to defend and ultimately profit from them. "In 2001, I had 163,000 emails from different customers around the world that wanted to know how on Earth we were ever going to protect the properties that the Lunar Embassy was selling," says Hope. "And after due consideration, the only answer we could come up with was that we needed to form a democratic republic government. So we created the Galactic Government."