Alternative Circle, a Kenyan Mobile FinTech innovator has signed an agreement with the international credit risk management company – Creditinfo Group, that has seen the local company secure $1.1 Million in seed capital; money that ...
If you have ever lost important data on your iPhone or iPad then you’ll know very well how it can change the way your day works out. The possibility of losing all your data is ...
In an interesting turn of events that saw Orange France exit the Kenyan market and selling off 70% stake in Orange Kenya to Helios, Orange has now signed a contract with Millicom, that will see ...
Samsung Electronics today announced the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch in the Nairobi office geared towards providing users with the next evolution in wearable technology that allows them to interact with mobile content through the wearable ...
In a recent move to bring the iPhone and Macintosh experience and related products that premium customers have come to love in the Kenyan market, Apple in partnership with Netsol, a local electronics distributor has ...
Free Basics Platform is now live with over 60 new services available across the 29 countries where Free Basic services are available. This includes 14 countries in Africa and will be run in a new ...
Interswitch, the African digital payments and e-commerce enabling integration company that recently re-branded from Paynet has now launched its Ugandan subsidiary; Interswitch Uganda to unveil new Automated Teller Machines, popularlyl known as ATMs as well ...
People are adopting a mobile-based online ‘way-of-life’ at a staggering rate in emerging markets such as Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa as juuchini reported a couple of weeks ago. In most cases, these people ...
mi-Fone has issued Legal letters to Chinese Smartphone giant Xiaomi and their African distributor objecting to their upcoming plans to distribute their smartphones across Africa. This objection is based largely on the fact that mi-Fone ...
Safaricom has now suspended the increased rates introduced for Equity Bank’s ‘Equitel Mobile Money Transfer Service customers that came into effect on 1st August 2015 and has also confirmed that the revised rates will now ...
Safaricom has now closed submissions for the 2015 Appwiz Developer competition with over 320 participants submitting their entries for the final prize of KES 1.5 Million. These entries that have been received are currently under ...
About 2 months ago, Uber launched a pilot that would have its customers in Nairobi using cash instead of credit and debit cards that many of Nairobi’s folk don’t use anyway. The test phase has ...
Safaricom has partnered with Google Kenya to launch Waze, a free GPS-based mobile app that offers motorists access to real-time traffic information, based on crowd-sourced data from other road users. Waze was acquired by Google ...
In an announcement on the Microsoft Office blog, Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team said, “Today I’m pleased to announce the general availability of the new Word, Excel ...
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Meizu, in partnership with Canonical, announced the launch of the MX4 Ubuntu Edition in Europe to smartphone enthusiasts. This follows the recent device launch in China specifically aimed at developers, focused on ...
Ericsson and Etisalat Egypt have been recognized with a Global Telecoms Business Innovation 2015 Award for the ‘New Day – New Idea’ project, which gives subscribers better access to flexible mobile data services. Winning in ...
MTN Uganda, in partnership with Outbox and Garage48 launched the MTN App Challenge 2015. The MTN APP Challenge was a 3 day event in which local innovators came together to create Mobile Applications for use on Mobile devices.The ...
I’ve taken a good number of Uber cabs in the past 6 months since it launched and I have to say I am well impressed about 97% of the time. Why? Because they’re friendly, the ...
