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Month: June 2018

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Mastercard signs 7-year payments solutions deal with Selcom in Tanzania

June 29, 2018 admin 0

Mastercard and Selcom have expanded their collaboration by signing a seven year strategic partnership agreement to introduce a variety of payment solutions in the country, thus supporting Tanzania’s goal of becoming a cashless economy. Tanzanian’s will be [c]

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Equity Bank Kenya in exclusive merchant acquirer deal with American Express

June 29, 2018 admin 0

American Express and Equity Bank have extended their current partnership, making Equity Bank Kenya the exclusive merchant acquirer in Kenya for American Express. Under the partnership agreement with American Express, Equity Bank will serve as [c]

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Engage PR set for name change following merger of Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe

June 29, 2018 admin 0

Engage Burson-Marsteller, the PR firm founded by former Gina Din Group staff, is set to change its brand identity following the recent merger of Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe to create Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW). Engage is [c]

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MultiChoice to boost Africa’s film and TV talent through 12-month training project

June 29, 2018 admin 0

MultiChoice has opened a call to entry for all aspiring young film and TV creatives to apply for the newly launched MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF). The MTF initiative will provider aspiring film makers with practical skills over [c]

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Kilimall celebrates 4th anniversary with Kshs 40 million worth of rewards to customers

June 29, 2018 admin 0

The fourth anniversary sale of Kilimall, being celebrated with the #Kilimall4th online campaign, will run from July 2 to 15, 2018. The momentous celebration, being a customer’s-centered event, will recognize the outstanding and incessant support that [c]

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Sony launches 2019 edition of photo contest, announces 2018 grant winners

June 27, 2018 admin 0

The World Photography Organisation has opened the 12th edition of the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s most diverse photography competition. To celebrate its continued presence as a leading global photography competition, the Awards reveal the latest [c]

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Africa Early Stage Investor Summit targets startups seeking to raise up to $5 million

June 27, 2018 admin 0

VC4A is calling for disruptive African scale-ups looking to raise between $250,000 and $5 million to register and attend an exclusive Series A Venture Showcase will take place in Cape Town on November 12, 2018, [c]

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Nokia 3.1, with 13MP rear camera, now available in Kenya for Kshs 16,000

June 27, 2018 admin 0

HMD Global has announced that the new Nokia 3.1 is now available to buy locally from mobile phone retail stores at Ksh 16,000. By joining the Android One family, Nokia 3.1 is endorsed by Google as a [c]

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New technologies that impacted various sectors in Africa

June 27, 2018 admin 0

Businesses in Africa are booming, and a significant amount of this growth is attributable to the investment in technology across the continent. World Bank projections indicate that out of 20 high-growth economies in the world, [c]

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Samsung optimises Kids Mode, allowing kids access to more relevant content

June 27, 2018 admin 0

Samsung Electronics has optimized the Kids Mode for approximately 2,500 more child-friendly third-party apps for learning and play, available for download via Galaxy Apps for Kids. This has been enabled thanks to the partnerships with [c]

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Freshworks achieves $100 million revenue milestone, unveils Freshworks 360

June 27, 2018 admin 1

Freshworks, a global provider of customer engagement software, has announced it has reached a revenue milestone by crossing $100 million in annual recurring revenue, led by its flagship support product Freshdesk (Customer Support Software) and [c]

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Raha Liquid Telecom, Microsoft partner to host Cloud event in Tanzania

June 27, 2018 admin 0

Liquid Telecom in partnership with Microsoft is hosting its 4th Azure Accelerator Conference in Dar es Salaam on June 29, 2018 to improve and accelerate the use of cloud services across Africa. Azure Accelerator is [c]

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ESET is a leader and top IT security vendor in Central and Eastern Europe – IDC

June 27, 2018 admin 0

ESET, an major IT security company based in the European Union, is the top endpoint security vendor in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), taking the most sizeable portion of the annual market share. According to [c]

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10 instances when you, as a rider, should use your Uber in-app help feature

June 27, 2018 admin 0

It has happened to you before, or you know a friend of a friend who has experienced the same thing. You know? Those times where you’ve been charged an incorrect fare? Encountered a rude driver, [c]

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China to help Africa achieve media excellence, progress in digitalization

June 27, 2018 admin 0

About 400 delegates and senior government officials from 42 African countries have converged in Beijing for the fourth Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation. The forum aims to enhance the media cooperation and exchange between China [c]

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RiskIQ contracts Precise Technologies as distributor in Africa, Middle East and Turkey market

June 26, 2018 admin 0

RiskIQ, a vendor of External Threat Management solutions, has signed Precise Technologies as its distributor in the Africa, Middle East and Turkey (META) market, excluding South Africa. Precise Technologies is a value-added distributor (VAD) specializing [c]

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RS Components targets a wider African market with new e-commerce portal, RSOnline

June 26, 2018 admin 0

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, the global distributor for engineers was founded as Radiospares, in 1937.  The company started as a supplier of parts to the burgeoning radio market that has evolved into a [c]

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afdb to raise over $27 million to finance pay-as-you-go solar home systems in Ivory Coast

June 26, 2018 admin 0

In very remote rural areas of some African countries, access to electricity for low-income people is still through traditional and outdated systems such as battery-powered flashlights or oil lamps that pollute and are extremely harmful [c]

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Young Scientists Kenya national science and technology expo set for July in Nairobi

June 25, 2018 admin 0

Final preparations are in high gear ahead of the inaugural Young Scientists Kenya (YSK) National Science and Technology Exhibition, which is set to take place at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) on July 5 [c]

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Finserve targets to have 500 developers, 2,000 SMEs using its APIs by year-end

June 25, 2018 admin 0

Finserve is targeting to have 500 developers from East and Central Africa to be actively using its application programming interface (APIs) by the end of the year in addition to 2,000 SMEs and start-ups. Developers, start-ups [c]

Analysis & Features

ESET discovers new malware abusing Telegram protocol for command and control

June 25, 2018 admin 0

ESET researchers have discovered a new family of Android RATs (Remote Administration Tools) abusing the Telegram protocol for command and control, as well as data exfiltration. Investigating what at first seemed like increased activity on [c]

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OPPO partners with Lipa Later to offer credit payment plan for OPPO F7

June 25, 2018 admin 1

OPPO Mobile has entered into a partnership with Lipa Later, a credit offering company to allow customers to purchase OPPO devices by installment as it aims to increase the sales and set foot in the Kenyan market. [c]

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Here’s what soccer fans can watch on Showmax between World Cup matches    

June 25, 2018 admin 0

We have already gone through 10 days of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. And the fans of various teams have had to deal with a mixture of feelings during this time – ranging from [c]

Analysis & Features

Sophos warns 2018 World Cup fans of potential cyber threats

June 23, 2018 admin 0

Sophos has reminded football fans of how cybercriminals have used people’s interest in the sport to launch cyber-attacks. Football has been targeted before by those who want to turn international community events into attacks. It’s [c]

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Stanbic Bank contracts CCRManager to boost its digital trade finance platform

June 21, 2018 admin 0

Stanbic Bank Kenya has today signed a memorandum of understanding with CCRManager, committing to work together on their digital trade finance platform that will not only boost efficiency in its operations but  facilitate access to [c]

CSR

Google partners with Mombasa County gov’t to train 5,000 youth on digital skills

June 21, 2018 admin 0

Google has partnered with the Mombasa County Government to train 5,000 youth in Mombasa in Digital Skills as part of their Grow with Google programme.. More than 600,000 Kenyan youth have already been trained since [c]

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Transcend Media’s affiliate, McCann Worldgroup, gets top recognition at Effie Awards

June 21, 2018 admin 0

Advertising firm McCann Worldgroup, part of the Interpublic Group, has been recognized as the Most Successful Agency Network in the 2018 Global Effie Effectiveness Index. McCann is a marketing services company with 24,000 employees in [c]

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Truecaller reintroduces ‘Who Viewed Your Profile’ feature for premium subscribers

June 21, 2018 admin 0

With over 100 million daily active users, and a growing number of Truecaller Pro subscribers, the company has reintroduced the much requested ‘Who Viewed Your Profile’ feature for its Pro subscribers. The feature allows users to see [c]

CSR

Airtel Kenya staff hold mentorship session at St. Michael’s Secondary School in Nairobi

June 21, 2018 admin 0

Peer pressure and behavioral change among high school students has been known to have both harmful and effective outcomes depending on the degree of the said influence. It is on this premise that the Airtel [c]

BLOG

Five global social media trends to know

June 20, 2018 admin 0

By Damian Radcliffe You’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s been a tough year for social media companies. Yet it appears that our love of social networking continues unabated. Around the world social media usage continues [c]

Analysis & Features

Algiers to host global smart cities, technology and investment summit

June 20, 2018 admin 0

Innovation and entrepreneurship play an ever-increasing role in growing Africa’s emerging technology ecosystem. According to research by the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator, over the past two years alone, Africa has seen the number of innovation hubs double. [c]

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