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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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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