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TravelMate B3 and TravelMate Spin B3, Acer announces new Windows 11 laptops for education

Acer is announcing the TravelMate B3 and TravelMate Spin B3 laptops for education that run Windows 11 SE or 11 Pro Education. The 11.6-inch laptops are able to survive the school day, with military-grade durability and 10-hour battery life. The laptops are to be available in the Middle East and Africa

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Microsoft GrowthX Accelerator

15 startups selected for the first cohort of the Microsoft GrowthX Accelerator program

15 startups will participate in the first cohort of the Microsoft GrowthX Accelerator program. They will work to co-create technology solutions with partners such as Etihad Airways, Unilever, Flow, IKEA, KPMG and Akbank. The startups will spend 12-weeks of virtual and physical workshops and training in the United Arab Emirates.

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Microsoft announces winners of Remote Resilience Online Hackathon

Five solutions have been selected as winners of the Microsoft sponsored Remote Resilience Online Hackathon. The hackathon organized by BeMyApp sought to unearth new innovations in remote work during this Covid-19 pandemic era. Inviting ideas from individuals and organizations across the Middle East and Africa region. Easy Gas, an IoT

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Win $4000 in the Remote Resilience online hackathon

BeMyApp and Microsoft present an online hackathon centered around remote work. Dubbed the Remote Resilience Online Hackathon. The competition let's you showcase your remote work idea using Microsoft technology. The competition invites startups, individuals and teams with ideas around and not limited to Remote Collaboration & Productivity, Remote Secure Access

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Microsoft Partner Africa Winners 2020

Microsoft MEA Multi-Country Cluster (MCC) wins top subsidiary award at Microsoft Inspire 2019

Microsoft's Middle East and Africa(MEA) Multi-Country Cluster(MCC) was declared Top subsidiary Award winner for Small and Multi Countries Subsidiary Category for FY19. Announced at Microsoft Inspire and Microsoft Ready 2019 partner conference in Las Vegas. Formed a year ago, the MEA MCC includes countries in Africa(minus South Africa and Egypt),

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Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Microsoft AI for Earth Innovation Grant for projects that use AI for global environmental impact in the Middle East and Africa

Microsoft is awarding new grants to fellow pioneers in the Middle East and Africa through a new partnership with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and the National Geographic Society The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) aims to create a world where both nature and humanity coexist in harmony. Over the past twenty years,

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Microsoft partners nonprofits to upskill 1.4 million Middle East and Africa youths

Microsoft to partner with 15 nonprofits in 8 countries to upskill 1.4 million youths in computer science across the Middle East and Africa region.  By the next three years, Microsoft wants to impart digital skills to 10 million youths in Middle East and Africa. To reach this goal Microsoft plans to

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Team Beach Safer to represent Middle East and Africa at Imagine Cup World finals

Team Beach Safer will be the only team from Africa presenting at the 2018 Imagine Cup World Finals     The annual student developer championship, Imagine Cup world finals is here with us. Students from across the nations will have an opportunity to showcase their live changing innovations. They have qualified from

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Imagine Cup Middle East

Imagine Cup Middle East and Africa Finals is ON! #ImagineCupMEA

15 Teams are contesting in this years Microsoft Imagine Cup Middle East and Africa Finals underway in Beirut, Lebanon. The Imagine Cup competition is Microsoft's global completion for student developers. It empowers the next generation of computer science students to team up and use their creativity, passion and knowledge of technology

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