Kolab Systems, creators of Kolab, the leading open source groupware and collaboration framework, today announced a partnership with Collabora Productivity, the architects behind LibreOffice Online, the cloud-based office productivity suite. Collabora’s CloudSuite web-based document solution [c]
Two Kenyan students who developed agribusiness mobile App ConviFarm are the winners of the top prize for the @iLabAfrica- Waterloo University Agribusiness mobile Tech challenge. Norman Muga of Strathmore University and Mburu Njunge of Kenyatta [c]
Over 500 participants from 70 countries attending ITU’s 2nd Global Forum on Emergency Telecommunications: Saving Lives (GET2016, Kuwait City, 26-28 January), underscored the importance of ICTs in disaster early warning and response through the launch of [c]
More than 700 Sage Business Partners across Africa gathered at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg for the Sage Business Partner Conference 2016. The conference, featuring keynote presentations from Sage CEO Stephen Kelly and Sage International [c]
Bharti Airtel’s subsidiaries in Africa recorded growth in revenues, data consumers as well as data ARPUs according to the firm’s audited consolidated IFRS results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2015. According to the [c]
Opera has introduced the Opera Max, a free VPN app that helps Android users in Africa manage and save data on streaming video, audio and photo-rich apps through both mobile and Wi-Fi connections. Opera Max [c]
More than 50,000 websites with the .ke domain name will now have their businesses connected globally, quickly and securely following a partnership between Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC) and the East Africa Data Centre (EADC) [c]
Global communications firm Publicis Groupe has announced its intention to offer funding and mentorship to 90 digital startups as it celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. The owner of Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom Mediavest Group is [c]
WorldRemit and MTN Group have announced that WorldRemit customers can now send money instantly to MTN Mobile Money wallets in Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. The launch follows the signing of a global partnership agreement earlier [c]
Kisumu’s LakeHub – a technology innovation hub which provides open working spaces for entrepreneurs, technologists, investors and makers – has launched an online fundraising with a target of US $ 5,000. The campaign, launched yesterday [c]
Facebook has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2015 where it reported several milestones in terms of growth of user names as well as revenues. Commenting on the [c]
Nailab yesterday held its first ever VC carousel in order to create of a direct link between startups and investors. The first of its kind among local incubators and accelerators, the carousel saw entrepreneurs who [c]
President John Magufuli has sacked National Identification Authority (NIDA) Director General Dickson Maimu and suspended four other officials from the organisation. According to an article in the Citizen, the NIDA officials were sent packing following [c]
Morocco’s capital city Marrakech is set to host the ICANN55 meeting in March this year, over a year after the global body in charge of the internet decided to move the venue of its ICANN52 [c]
Huawei has partnered with HiPipo to honor the Ugandan Music fraternity through the fourth edition of the prestigious HiPipo Music Awards. The awards that started in 2013, aim at appreciating and promoting Ugandan Music [c]
Travelport, a global Travel Commerce Platform, has announced a new multi-year, global full content agreement with Jambojet Ltd. Jambojet is also connecting to Travelport’s Universal API technology and is the first carrier in Sub-Saharan Africa [c]
Kenya’s subsidiary of the Bharti Airtel Group, Airtel Kenya, has appointed Tell-EM PR to act as its communications and PR agency in the country. The move to appoint Tell-Em PR comes just weeks after the [c]
Safaricom has announced a new service that allow M-PESA customers to access monthly statements free of charge via email. The service is one of the enhancements made possible to the system following the relocation of [c]
The Little Rose Centre is a safe haven for vulnerable children from the Kliptown informal settlement community. Started over 20 years ago using a double decker bus, the centre now has five colourful containers used [c]
Let’s go round the continent, in an anti-clockwise direction, seeking to identify locally assembled smartphones, or just mobile phones for that matter. Here we go… The Nigerians in 2012 launched their SOLO phone brand to [c]
Technology Service Providers of Kenya (TESPOK) rebranded in the last quarter of 2015 from Telecommunications Service Providers of Kenya. The decision to drop the Telecommunications and take up Technology is driven by the vision of [c]
Nairobi-headquartered Equity Group Holding’s banking subsidiary, Equity Bank, has selected Entersekt’s mobile-based, multi-factor authentication products, Transakt and Interakt, to boost the security of its online banking, mobile banking, and payments product set. Entersekt, a provider [c]
Intel has launched an online learning platform –Intel She Will Connect – My Digital Journey–aimed at providing an opportunity for women to learn, connect and share online. My Digital Journey is a web-based application with [c]
Kenya has in the past decade seen a growth in incomes with more people joining the middle class which has in time led to a change in lifestyle and behavior. Over this period the growing [c]
Here’s some not very pleasant news for the country’s ICT industry: Kenya ranks 51st in how its domestic policies support worldwide innovation, according to an analysis released by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a [c]
Youth from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda have until Sunday January 31 to submit their entries for the World Bank’s #Blog4Dev contest through which the bank seeks to get the youth within the 18 – 28 [c]
Airtel Kenya has introduced a new “UnlimiNet 20 bundle” (#UnlimiNET20), that is the most affordable bundled offer for voice, SMS and data on the Airtel Kenya network. The launch of “UnlimiNet 20” bundle demonstrates the [c]
Last week while watching behind the scenes video of one of East Africans most coveted male artists Diamond Platnumz, I remember the excitement we had on noticing the different audio visual equipment employed into making [c]
Investors at Konza Techno City will access clean water whose supply has been guaranteed by Tanathi Water Services Board. This follows an agreement signed between Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) and Nol-Turesh Loitoktok Water and [c]
On the parking lot outside Africa Internet Express (AIX) warehouse in Nairobi’s Baba Ndogo estate, close to twenty semi-trailer trucks, a hundred motorcycles decorated with logos of different companies providing courier services wait to be [c]
Kenya’s most popular chicken restaurant chain, KFC and South Africa’s chain of sea food restaurant, Ocean Basket have partnered with Hellofood to sell food online. Hellofood will now deliver food bought from the two restaurants [c]
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