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TD Africa Promises Massive Deals @ Burgundy Friday Garage Sale

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TD Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa’s foremost tech, lifestyle and solutions distributor, says it has put together unmatched deals and rock-bottom prices on a wide variety of products for its Burgundy Friday Garage sale.

The Garage sale is scheduled for Friday, November 20, 2020 from 10am.

Equally important, the sale fiesta is set to hold across all of TD Africa’s branches in Nigeria.

Furthermore, the Burgundy Friday Garage Sale will hold in TD Africa’s branch in neighbouring African country, Ghana.

The locations are as follows: Lagos (5, Redemption Crescent, Gbagada Industrial Estate, Lagos); Abuja (20, Port Harcourt Crescent, Off Gimbiya Street, Area 11, Garki, Abuja); Port Harcourt (146, Trans Amadi Industrial Layout, Oginigba, Opposite Old Michellin Company by Slaughter road, Port-Harcourt), Kano (15/16 Post Office Road, Opposite Kedco office, Kano); Enugu (134, Upper Chime Avenue, Enugu) and Owerri (65, Mbaise Road, Owerri), among others.

For Ghana, the TD Africa Burgundy Friday sale will hold at 147C, Olusegun Obasanjo way, Roman Ridge, Accra, Ghana.

Mrs. Chioma Chimere, Coordinating Managing Director, TD Africa, said, the Garage sale is an opportunity for customers as well as members of the public to take advantage of the special discounts and price slashes on offer in the spirit of Black Friday.

“We have listened to the yearnings of our teeming customers who have been waiting for this Burgundy Friday Garage sale.

“We have tagged it Burgundy Friday which represents the official colour of TD Africa.

“Furthermore, we are in the Black Friday season, so there is no better time than now to have this special discount sale.

‘‘The TD Africa Burgundy Friday Garage Sale is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to grab a variety of genuine products in our wide bouquet sourced direct from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

“A lot of products are going away at amazing prices unbeatable anywhere else. You can be rest assured that it is not only a chance to enjoy Black Friday offerings courtesy of TD Africa, but also a unique avenue to get your Christmas shopping started early,’’ she enthused

TD Africa commenced business in May 1999 as the pioneer ICT distributor in West Africa and currently represents the likes of globally renowned OEMs such as HP, Microsoft, APC, IBM, Huawei, Dell EMC, Cisco, D-Link, Kaspersky, Huawei, Lenovo, Philips, InFocus, Infinix, Tecno, Nokia, Bosch, Vertiv, Samsung, Zebra and Mercury, among others.

As the first manufacturer-accredited local distributor for the sub-region, TD, with the support of the OEMs, successfully confronted the myriad challenges posed by the hitherto unstructured market.

Among the first measures was the formulation of a clear policy on the channel of distribution that led to the adoption of the prevailing four-tier market structure comprising Manufacturer (OEM), Distributor, Reseller and End-User.

This development, coupled with TD’s high stocking capability, brought relief to all stakeholders by ending decades of problematic reliance on foreign distributors with no local value add.

 

 


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UK Orders Apple to Create Backdoor for Encrypted iCloud Data

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United Kingdom has issued a “technical capability notice” to Apple, mandating that the company create a backdoor to access users’ encrypted iCloud data.

UK Orders Apple to Create Backdoor for Encrypted iCloud Data

This directive, issued under the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, requires Apple to provide British security officials with the means to retrieve all content uploaded to iCloud by any user worldwide.

Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature, introduced in 2022, offers end-to-end encryption for iCloud data, ensuring that only users can access their information.

The UK’s demand challenges this security measure, potentially compelling Apple to either comply by creating the backdoor or withdraw the ADP feature from the UK market.

Compliance could set a precedent, leading other governments to request similar access, thereby raising global privacy concerns.

The UK Home Office has declined to confirm or deny the existence of such notices, stating, “We do not comment on operational matters, including, for example, confirming or denying the existence of any such notices.”

This development underscores the ongoing tension between governmental surveillance efforts and technology companies’ commitments to user privacy.

 


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Oracle Adds AI Pricing Features to Financial Software

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Oracle on Thursday added another set of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to NetSuite, one of its corporate finance software offerings, including some that might make it faster for consumers to get a price quote on purchases like custom bicycles.

Oracle has taken a different tack with AI than rivals such as Microsoft. Rather than racing toward general purpose virtual assistants, Oracle has decided to add targeted features that speed common-but-tedious tasks like entering a brief write-up of how a sales meeting went into a corporate records system.

Another such task that is common in the business world is giving a customer a price quote on a complicated purchase that might have a lot of options, when a sales professional would need to sift through materials to come up with a price.

NetSuite on Thursday announced a feature to compile such a quote via conversation with a chatbot asking what the customer wants, which can either be used by sales professionals behind the scenes to speed up their work, or directly by consumers in the case of e-commerce businesses.

“When you buy something like a bicycle, you have to configure it – figure out what parts you want and which parts work together. We all do it when we buy our cars on the web these days,” Evan Goldberg, executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, said.

“If you can configure (products) for customers more easily, you can do more deals in a day, or each deal costs less.”

To power those features, Oracle has decided to skip the costly race to develop huge AI models and instead works with partners such as Canadian startup Cohere.

Goldberg said that Oracle’s recent agreement to build massive data centers with ChatGPT creator OpenAI could lead to working with it as well, though the two firms have made no formal announcements.

“I think you could safely say that there’s a possibility that OpenAI will be part of this,” Goldberg told Reuters. “We are eager to work with OpenAI.”

 


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IBM Exits Nigeria and Ghana, Transfers Operations to MIBB

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IBM, the American multinational technology giant, has reportedly announced plans to exit Nigeria, Ghana, and other key African markets, transferring its regional operations to MIBB, a subsidiary of the Midis Group.

IBM Exits Nigeria and Ghana, Transfers Operations to MIBB

The move, which according to TechCabal was revealed in a statement by the company, effective April 1 2025, is part of a new operating model IBM is adopting across select African countries.

Under this arrangement, MIBB will take over IBM’s local operations, customer support, and relationships while marketing and selling IBM products and services across 36 African nations.

“MIBB will market and sell IBM products and services in 36 African countries, thereby giving MIBB’s sales network direct access to IBM products, services, and support, further boosting innovation and growth in the region,” IBM stated.

IBM has been a key player in Africa’s tech industry for decades, providing critical infrastructure for banking, telecom, oil and gas, and government services.

However, its planned exit follows a trend of multinational corporations leaving Nigeria.

In December 2024, Swiss cement giant Holcim announced its departure from Nigeria, selling its 83% stake in Lafarge to a Chinese firm.

Similarly, South African grocery retailer Pick n Pay disclosed plans in October 2024 to exit Nigeria by selling its 51% stake in a joint venture.

IBM has yet to respond to media inquiries regarding the specifics of its transition strategy and reasons for the exit.


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