The company has joined Facebook and other tech giants moving into Africa.
Briefly Newspresents the top tech companies in the world and where they are located in Africa.
Apple
Techgiant Apple announced plans to open its headquarters and first official store in Africa.
Apple is a tech giant which was founded on April 1, 1976. Photo credit: Costfoto/Barcroft MediaSource: Getty Images
It will be in Egypt.
Twitter’s Africa headquarters will be sited in Ghana.
The company announced it wouldrecruit 11 people in the West African country.
Twitter will be hiring 11 people for its Ghana office. Photo credit: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocketSource: Getty Images
Amazon
The tech giant opened offices in South Africa in 2015.
Google’s first African Artificial Intelligence lab was opened in Ghana in 2019.
The company’s firstAfrica software engineering office will be opened in Nigeria in 2021.
Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994. Photo credit: Jeff Halstead/Icon SportswireSource: Getty Images
Microsoft
Microsoft opened its first Africa data centres (Africa Development Centre) in Kenya andNigeriain 2019.
There were mixed reactions as Twitter announced preparation toopen its African headquarters in Ghana.
A blog post on Twitter’s official website was attached to Dorsey’s tweet giving further details.
Google has 135,301 employees around the world. Photo credit: Cezary Kowalski/SOPA Images/LightRocketSource: Getty Images
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Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. Photo credit: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocketSource: Getty Images
Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Photo credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocketSource: Getty Images
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