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Month: April 2016

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Safaricom’s #ThisIsMyKenya campaign wins continental award

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

News

CA denies corruption allegations in Essar Telecom Kenya sale

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

News

Booking.com app to be pre-installed in future Huawei devices

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

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ZTE’s new cloud storage STB gets top award at TV Connect, London

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

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Huawei IT named as digital accelerator in 2016 Gartner CIO Agenda survey

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

CSR

Anonymous allegedly hacks Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in protest over government corruption

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

BLOG

It’s time to re-think security management

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

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#FASTAfrica campaign starts on May 1, seeks affordable internet access for Africans

April 29, 2016 admin 0

#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]

News

Airtel Africa revenues grow by 5.9% YoY, highest increase in last six quarters

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

BLOG

Introducing Facebook, Messenger and Instagram Windows apps

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

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US’ Citizenship and Immigration Services wins overall Igniting Innovation Award

April 29, 2016 admin 0

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]

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Mooditt, Nigeria’s favourite music app, has an upgrade with enhanced features

April 28, 2016 admin 0

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]

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Ericsson’s IoT Accelerator to enable customers deploy IT solutions cost-effectively

April 28, 2016 admin 0

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]

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Guardian Nigeria launches online TV platform

April 28, 2016 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

East Africa is ready for justice innovations – HiiL

April 28, 2016 admin 0

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]

CSR

Safaricom is title sponsor of #BAKEAwards 2016

April 28, 2016 admin 0

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]

BLOG

Promising future in telecoms sector, but stakes higher

April 28, 2016 admin 0

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]

News

Kenya’s #YallaKenya campaign targets tourists from Gulf countries

April 27, 2016 admin 0

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]

BLOG

Edward Frost: The convenience of using ba.com for airfare, hotel and car hire bookings

April 27, 2016 admin 0

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]

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Tigo’s second largest MNO in Tanzania – TCRA

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

News

Groupama Banque rebrands to Orange Bank after Orange bought 65% stake

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

News

MainOne adopts global trends to ensure best performance in West Africa

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

News

Huawei devices now available at FoneXpress outlets

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

CSR

#AirtelTRACEStar in second week, activations target Nairobi’s residential areas

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

News

Jean-Claude Geha replaces Fredrik Jejdling as Ericsson’s head of sub-Saharan Africa

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

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Ingenico, Tracom partner to deploy cashless revenue system in Nyeri County

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

News

Tigo Pesa customers awarded $2.3 million in quarterly profit share

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

Events Noticeboard

IoT World Congress set for Barcelona in October 2016

April 26, 2016 admin 0

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]

Events Noticeboard

Webi, Airtel TRACE 2015 Kenya winner, to launch third album on April 29

April 21, 2016 admin 0

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]

CSR

2 Kenyan NGOs to get funding from Microsoft YouthSpark

April 21, 2016 admin 0

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]

Events Noticeboard

Egypt to host Techne Summit 2016 in May

April 21, 2016 admin 0

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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With Africa set to become next global tech hub, here’s what it could mean for industries across the board

AVA to assemble BasiGo’s electric-powered buses for Nairobi PSV operators

mTek partners with Kyosk.app and Fin Africa to offer digital insurance services to over 100,000 retail outlets

AFEX names new management changes as it expands operations to Uganda

Kenya Association of Music Producers granted CMO license by KECOBO

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Kenyan fintech Kyanda Africa among 11 startups picked for Cohort 3 of Africa Startup Initiative Program




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