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Month: July 2016

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Multichoice slashes GOtv Lite, GOtv Value prices from August 2016

July 29, 2016 admin 13

GOtv Kenya will reduce the price of its Lite and Value bouquets on August 20, 2016. The company has reduced the monthly subscriptions fee for the GOtv Value bouquet by 28 per cent from Kshs 650 [c]

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Msitu Yetu portal to act as one-stop shop for information on Kenya’s forests

July 29, 2016 admin 0

The East African Wild Life Society (EAWLS) has launched a Wiki-style website where information on Kenya’s forests can be easily accessed and shared to boost transparency in the sector, dubbed the Misitu Yetu website. The [c]

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CFC Stanbic, KenolKobil partner to enable cashless transactions

July 29, 2016 admin 0

CfC Stanbic Bank and KenolKobil have signed a partnership deal in which all KenolKobil dealers will enjoy a bouquet of financial solutions aimed at enhancing service delivery. Speaking at the launch of the partnership, CfC [c]

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Vodafone develops prototype of connected ‘Smart Summer’ designs

July 29, 2016 admin 0

Vodafone has developed a suite of Internet of Things (IoT) proof-of-concept connected ‘Smart Summer’ holiday essentials to help protect against UV, keep children safe on the beach and locate lost luggage. The Vodafone ‘Smart Summer’ [c]

Analysis & Features

Sage sets out its vision for Africa at Sage Summit 2016

July 29, 2016 admin 0

Sage, a provider of cloud accounting software, used its global Sage Summit 2016, held this week in Chicago, to outline its strong commitment to future technologies, with a focus on new and existing initiatives that [c]

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Kwesé Sports to live stream USA Basketball Showcase on August 2

July 29, 2016 admin 0

Econet Media’s Kwesé Sports will bring African basketball fans live coverage of the USA Men’s National Team exhibition game versus Nigeria game taking place on August 2, 2016 as part of the USA Basketball Showcase. [c]

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ICANN announces results of dotWEB and dotWEBS auction

July 29, 2016 admin 0

NU DOT CO LLC has prevailed in the auction for the price of US $135 million to operate the dotWeb (.WEB) gTLD while Vistaprint Ltd prevailed with a price of US $1 for the dotWebs [c]

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Vivek Badrinath to head Vodafone’s Africa operations from October

July 29, 2016 admin 0

Vodafone Group has announced the appointment of Serpil Timuray as Chief Commercial Operations and Strategy Officer and the appointment of Vivek Badrinath as Serpil Timuray’s successor as CEO for the Group’s Africa, Middle East and [c]

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Huawei shipped 60.56 million smartphones in first half of 2016

July 29, 2016 admin 0

Huawei Consumer Business Group has announced its 2016 half-year financial results, reporting that sales revenue in the first half year of 2016 increased by 41% year-on-year to CNY¥ 77.4 billion (US $11.61 billion) while smartphone [c]

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Two Kenyans among 51 Fellows selected to attend ICANN57

July 29, 2016 admin 0

Two Kenyans are among 51 fellows from 35 countries selected to participate in ICANN’s Fellowship program at the 57th Public Meeting (ICANN57) in Hyderabad, India 3-9 November 2016. The two are Elizabeth Orembo (from the [c]

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MTN begins work on listing on Nigeria bourse, appoints transaction advisors

July 29, 2016 admin 0

MTN Nigeria’s Board of Directors has resolved to proceed with preparations for a listing of the telco on the NSE as soon as commercially and legally possible and has established a management task team with [c]

Analysis & Features

Orange Money now has 19 million users, moves $1.11 billion monthly

July 29, 2016 admin 0

Speaking at its 4th annual strategy and activity update for press and analysts in London on 28 July, Ramon Fernandez, Deputy CEO and Chief Finance and Strategy Officer, Bruno Mettling, CEO of Orange Middle East [c]

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New portal targets Kenya’s contractors

July 28, 2016 admin 0

Contractors and their clients can now interact much easier following the launch of an online portal that will create a database for the various types of service providers in Kenya as well as tenders and [c]

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Oracle acquires NetSuite for $9.3 billion

July 28, 2016 admin 0

Oracle has has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NetSuite, a cloud computing firm. The transaction is valued at US $109.00 per share in cash, or approximately US $9.3 billion. “Oracle and NetSuite cloud [c]

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Kilimall unveils promo as its marks 2 years in Kenya

July 28, 2016 admin 0

Kilimall has launched a major promotion to mark its two years of operation in Kenya. The reward campaign dubbed ‘Pata Dabo na Kilimall’ will see shoppers on Kilimall get one free item from its huge variety of stocks. The offer [c]

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Samsung opens new Experience Store in Nakuru town

July 28, 2016 admin 0

An increasing availability of mall rental space in the Nairobi metropolitan and other counties is driving retailers to set up outlets outside the capital city, in a bid to expand their consumer base across the [c]

Analysis & Features

Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa have one-third of Africa’s mobile subscribers – GSMA

July 28, 2016 admin 0

More than half a billion people across Africa are now subscribed to mobile services as the continent continues to migrate rapidly to mobile broadband networks, reveals a new GSMA study. ‘The Mobile Economy: Africa 2016’ [c]

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Getting Smart for the 2016 Rio Olympics with LG

July 28, 2016 admin 0

Everyone’s attention is on the Olympics for a summer full of exciting global sports even as Organizers expect more than a billion people worldwide to watch the event on television, while tens of thousands will [c]

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Ashley Boag is new MD of SAP East Africa, replacing Andrew Waititu

July 27, 2016 admin 0

SAP veteran Ashley Boag has been picked by the enterprise software vendor to come lead its operations in East Africa from the Nairobi hub, taking over from Andrew Waititu who left the firm in May [c]

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Samsung Electronic’s Smart UX Center wins at BLI Summer 2016 Awards

July 27, 2016 admin 0

Samsung Electronics has won an Outstanding Achievement in Innovation Award for its Smart UX Center at the Buyers Laboratory (BLI) Summer 2016 Awards. The Smart UX Center is the printing industry’s first ever Android-based system, [c]

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Ooredoo Tunisia and Algeria record subscriber growth in half-year results

July 27, 2016 admin 0

Ooredoo’s North Africa subsidiaries – Tunisia and Algeria – have returned positive subscriber numbers in the first half of this year according to the group’s financial results. Ooredoo Tunisia’s customer base was 7.6 million at [c]

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Kenya’s Leroy Mwasaru to pitch at 2016 Harvard Igniting Innovation Summit

July 27, 2016 admin 0

Leroy Mwasaru, a secondary school student at Maseno School in Western Kenya, has been selected as one of this year’s 2016 Harvard Igniting Innovation Summit Global Trailblazers. Mwasaru’s startup, Greenpact, works around clean-energy production, by turning [c]

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MTN Uganda is the exclusive digital partner for Beneath the Lies TV/web series

July 26, 2016 admin 0

MTN Uganda has announced a partnership with 40 Plus, the producers of the popular drama series, Beneath the Lies (BTL), ahead of the Season Premiere on Sunday July 31, 2016. Under this partnership, MTN will [c]

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DStv, GOtv boost Kenya’s Rio Olympics’ team with Kshs 1 million donation

July 26, 2016 admin 0

Multichoice Kenya – through its DStv and GOtv brands – has contributed Kshs 1 million to the Kenya Rio Olympics’ team  kitty.   The highly anticipated Rio Olympics sporting will kick off from Friday August [c]

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Orange records growth in mobile data, mobile money users in Africa, Middle East

July 26, 2016 admin 0

The Orange Group has recorded growth in mobile data revenues as well as Orange Money subscriptions in Africa and Middle East even though it had to grapple with SIM verification and registration issues, according to [c]

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Huawei’s $5 million Innovation and Experience Centre opens in Jo’burg, South Africa

July 26, 2016 admin 0

Huawei signed a Cooperation Contract with South Africa’s Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) on July 19, 2016 during the launch of the joint Innovation and Experience Centre in Johannesburg. The Centre will showcase futuristic [c]

Analysis & Features

e-Learning reaches wider audiences, boosts financial literacy – ACCA

July 26, 2016 admin 0

Reza Ali, director of new ventures at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has emphasised that high quality courses with positive learner experience offering a peer-to-peer support network, will be the way of the [c]

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Safaricom drops voice and data roaming rates for over 200 networks

July 26, 2016 admin 0

Following successful negotiations with its global network of partners, Safaricom has reduced roaming charges for calls and data by up to 99 per cent for over 200 networks across the world. Safaricom customers will be able [c]

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Five transcription tools and apps every journalist can use

July 25, 2016 admin 0

Technology’s changing everything, and nowadays we can combine everything from photos and videos to tweets and maps to turn a chunk of text into its own web project. Yet for all the things technology has [c]

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2016 SOMA nominations close on Sunday July 31

July 25, 2016 admin 0

The deadline for nominating either individuals or organisations for the 2016 edition of the OLX Social Media Awards (SOMA 2016) is this Sunday July 31, meaning that those who’re yet to nominated their candidates have [c]

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Huawei reports $ 36.8 billion in sales in 2016 half-year results

July 25, 2016 admin 0

Huawei has announced its financial results for the first half of 2016, which indicate that in the first half of this year, the China-based firm generated sales revenue of CN Y245.5 billion (US $ 36.825 [c]

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