Researchers have found that data on Google searches could provide insight into the interests and concerns of different demographic groups. The study by academics at Warwick Business School, UK, found that while internet users in [c]
Mombasa’s technology and cultural community is set to benefit from SwahiliPOT, a new innovation hub thanks to a partnership between SEACOM, Cisco Systems and the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). The project, which is the [c]
Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila was on Saturday, 19th March 2016 announced as the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his first novel, Tram 83.Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated [c]
Jumia is celebrating its third anniversary with discounts for its customers between 5 and 7 April. Jumia opened its Kenyan operations in March 2013 with a paltry workforce of four employees in an apartment office. Three years [c]
Mobile-based financial services company Branch has raised a Series A equity funding round of US $9.6 million, as it positions itself for further growth and expansion into new markets. The funding will allow for the [c]
HiiL Innovating Justice in collaboration with Strathmore Law School will host an Innovating Justice event in Nairobi to gauge the readiness of East Africa for Justice Technology. The event which is set to take place [c]
Huawei has announced that Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) over Long Term Evolution (LTE) joint solution validation on which Huawei and Siemens collaborated passed the interoperability testing in France at the end of 2015. During [c]
Mahindra Comviva has announced the launch of PreTUPS 6.4, a smarter and advanced version of its widely deployed electronic recharge and prepaid management solution. PreTUPS is already deployed by over 55 mobile operators in more [c]
Whether it be child abuse imagery, the purchase of illegal narcotics or planning an assassination, a growing amount of the world’s criminal activity takes place on a part of the Internet known as the “Dark [c]
By Bora Kizil and Julien Muller Analytics, predictions, recommendations and customisation are some of the innovations used in e-commerce since the 1990s to sell the right service to the right customer. Some VOD players in the [c]
The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation – which encourages ambitious and talented sub-Saharan African engineers to apply their skills to develop scalable solutions to local challenges – is receiving applications till June 30, 2016. The [c]
The 2016 winner of the American Institute of Physics’ John Torrence Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics, Prof. Neil Turok, announced that he is donating the monetary portion of the award, a US $10,000 [c]
The Anzisha Youth Entrepreneurship Survey is based on an emailed questionnaire answered by a selection of young entrepreneurs within the 15 to 25 age group, and located across the African continent. The survey focused on [c]
Liquid Telecom Kenya, which is investing US $1 million in 2016 in hundreds of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Kenya, has launched an app mapping the more than 350 free Wi-Fi hotspots it has installed so [c]
By Guest Author “Treasury and a cartel is frustrating a professional team that has delivered under very difficult circumstances and that could have done better if Treasury had in the least, approved the rights issue [c]
The World Bank recently announced the winners of its 2016 edition of the #Blog4Dev contest from the 1,300 applications submitted by entrants from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The youth drawn from the three countries – [c]
Informa Telecoms & Media has announced that APO will be the Official Newswire of AfricaCom 2016, Africa‘s leading telecoms event set for Cape Town, South Africa from November 15 – 17, 2016. AfricaCom, the biggest and best tech [c]
Etisalat Egypt (Misr) and Huawei have announced the completion of the world’s first live traffic application of the innovative microwave solution “Super Dual Band” with throughput more than 6Gbps in mobile backhaul in Alexandria region, [c]
The Energy and Environment Partnership Programme with Southern and East Africa (EEP S&EA) is seeking high-quality applications for projects in the two regions that can contribute to the reduction of poverty by promoting inclusive and [c]
Bob Marley fans from all over the world can now listen to his wide collection of music for free exclusively on the official Bob Marley Music app. The Bob Marley Music mobile app, was [c]
Mahindra Comviva, a provider of mobility solutions, is set to showcase its new innovations at the upcoming 6th Annual Policy Control conference to be held in Berlin, on April 5 – 6, 2016. At the conference, Mahindra Comviva [c]
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has kicked off a process that would see Kenya have a robust addressing plan that is billed to greatly boost e-commerce and other services. The CA met stakeholders recently [c]
Global smartphone demand hit 368 million units in Q4 2015, up 14 percent quarter-on-quarter and up six percent year-on-year. However, revenues plateaued year-on-year at US $115 billion due to average selling price (ASP) declines of [c]
Paragon Software Group, a multi-platform software developer for mobile devices and desktop computers, has released the latest update of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary iOS app, developed by Oxford University Press, considered the world’s authority [c]
The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has awarded a prize of Kshs 150,000 for investment in listed securities to Gabriel Mbiti from JKUAT as the winner of the just concluded Nairobi County Capital Markets University Challenge. The Challenge, which has been running [c]
Kisumu’s LakeHub has been selected by US State Department to host Fishackathon 2016, a public-private partnership that aims to capitalize on the expansion of mobile phone and internet use across the developing world to address [c]
Nakumatt Holdings has rolled out a Kshs 17 million customer reward programme with a grand prize chance for five families to win themselves an all-expense paid trip to Denmark. In conjunction with global toymaker, Lego [c]
Visa has partnered with Somalia’s Premier Bank as part of a wider strategic agreement to strengthen formal banking services in Somalia. As a first step the agreement signed between the two parties will enable Visa [c]
By Michuki Mwangi The 17th of March 2016 will be long remembered a special day in the Internet history books of Madagascar as the “Journée de l’Internet” or “Internet Day”. To most people Madagascar is [c]
Oracle and Microsoft executives – Ronald Osumba and Betty Addero Radier – are among the beneficiaries of the recent government appointments to various boards of parastatals in the country. Oracle Kenya’s Head of Public Sector [c]
The sixth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, released this week on TopUniversities.com, features a record-breaking 42 disciplines, making it the largest-ever ranking of its kind. Harvard and MIT take the joint [c]
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