Safaricom has been awarded Best Multi-Market Communications and Best Microsite for its Capture Kenya campaign, at the first ever African Excellence Awards held recently in Cape Town, South Africa. The annual awards are held to [c]
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has dismissed allegations appearing in a section of the media imputing unethical conduct and corruption in the sale of Essar Telecom Kenya and its subsequent acquisition by Safaricom and [c]
Booking.com, the world’s leading online accommodation booking site, has partnered with Huawei, the world’s third largest smartphone producer, to become the first accommodation platform that will come pre-installed on Huawei devices globally. With Booking.com’s more [c]
ZTE has announced the launch of its ZXV10 HC100 home cloud storage set-top box (STB) at TV Connect, London. Integrating 4K video, smart home, home cloud storage and home content delivery network (CDN) functions, the [c]
Huawei IT was named among digital accelerators by CIO’s surveyed in Gartner’s Building the Digital Platform: The 2016 CIO Agenda report. The Gartner report showed the results for 30 vendors most frequently mentioned by CIOs, [c]
Hackers associated with the Anonymous hacking collective have allegedly compromised a massive 1TB worth of data from a server from Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to protest against alleged child abuse, child [c]
By Rick Rogers “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” R. Buckminster Fuller said those words decades ago, but they [c]
#FASTAfrica, a new campaign to demand an internet that is faster, more accessible, and affordable for all Africans before 2020, has been launched. The campaign is hinged on the message that development, and therefore African [c]
Bharti Airtel has announced its audited consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended March 31, 2016 which indicate that revenues from the firm’s Africa unit grew by 5.9% Y-o-Y (4.5% reported [c]
By Davis Fields There are many people using Facebook, Messenger and Instagram on Windows, so today we’re excited to rollout Windows 10 Apps for Facebook and Messenger on desktop and Instagram on mobile. These new [c]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services won the overall Igniting Innovation Award Monday at The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council’s Igniting Innovation Showcase and Award event in Washington, D.C. A panel of government and [c]
Mooditt, Nigeria’s most favourite music streaming app, incubated by Mahindra Comviva, has announced the release of Mooditt 2.0, the latest version with improved features. The new Mooditt 2.0 music app comes with a visually pleasing [c]
Ericsson has announced the launch of IoT Accelerator at Hannover Messe, the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology. IoT Accelerator combines horizontal, feature-rich IoT platforms with Ericsson’s services and a marketplace where customers from [c]
The Guardian, one of Nigeria’s most trusted newspapers, has launched its online TV platform, Guardian TV. Guardian TV will provide exclusive video interviews, as well as up-to-the-minute videos from across the world, and will be [c]
The Innovating Justice Nairobi event took place the 21st April 2016 at the Strathmore University with Chief Justice Willy Mutunga and Manu Chandaria leading the discussion on justice innovation and the readiness for East Africa [c]
Safaricom are the title sponsors for the BAKE Awards 2016. This is not the first time that Safaricom has worked with BAKE in supporting the awards as they extended their sponsorship in 2012, 2013 and [c]
By Jesse Kisenya The telecommunications industry in Kenya has been on a very progressive journey and it has covered a great distance in a very short period of time. According to the latest regulatory data, [c]
Kenya has launched the #YallaKenya (Let’s go to Kenya) campaign, a consumer campaign targeting the Gulf countries to drive more tourists to Kenya. This was a joint venture between the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) and [c]
Bleisure (Business and Leisure) travel is an awful contraction, but if industry experts are to be believed, a growing trend as business travelers add a little personal downtime at the start or end of work-related [c]
Tigo Tanzania has become the second largest player in the Tanzanian telecom market with the highest growth rate, recent statistics by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) have revealed. The 2015 quarter four results, released [c]
Orange and Groupama have signed an agreement that aims to enable the development of an innovative, 100% mobile banking service. This agreement concludes the exclusive discussions that have been ongoing between the two Groups since [c]
MainOne, premier connectivity and data center solutions company recently reinforced its commitment to enhancing its submarine cable assets at SubOptic 2016, the convergence place for leading optical technology vendors to exchange ideas and review latest [c]
Huawei Technologies has signed a partnership deal with leading mobile phones retailer FoneExpress in a retail expansion plan aimed at increasing its coverage and market share in Kenya. The partnership is part of a wider [c]
The Airtel Trace Music Star activation contest has now entered its second week. Activation activities place in various residential areas which include South C, South B, Langata, Highrise (Nyayo), Kiserian, Rongai, Baba Dogo, Huruma, Outering, [c]
Ericsson has announced the appointment of Jean-Claude Geha as Head of the sub-Saharan Africa Region effective from July 1, 2016. Jean-Claude replaces Fredrik Jejdling who will take up a new role as part of the [c]
Ingenico Group, a provider of payment solutions – has in partnership with Tracom – deployed a Revenue Collection solution in the County of Nyeri in Kenya. This initiative was sponsored by Equity Bank and reinforces [c]
Tigo Pesa users have been paid a total of US $2.3 million as profit share paid every quarter by Tanzania’s telecom operator Tigo. This is the eighth time that Tigo is disbursing the quarterly payment [c]
IoT Solutions World Congress announces its 2016 conference program tracks and contents Fira de Barcelona has announced the main tracks of the next edition of the Internet of Things Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC), the leading [c]
Pine Creek Records in conjunction with Airtel Kenya and Capital FM are set to host the launch of Lukundo, the third album by Webi at The Elephant 3 Kanjata Road, Lavington on Friday April 29, [c]
Microsoft Philanthropies has announced grants for over 100 nonprofit organizations in 55 countries, including I Choose Life Africa (ICL) and The African Centre for Women, Information & Communications Technology (ACWICT) in Kenya. The grants are [c]
Techne Summit, the international entrepreneurship technology event that acts as a platform by including the main global players in the technology industry, will launch this year once again in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt [c]
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