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Month: March 2019

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After successfully building Spielworks, Dorothy Ghettuba now gets new role Netflix

March 30, 2019 admin 0

After her own production house, Spielworks Media, successfully developed and released 18 TV shows, 41 movies, and numerous web shows broadcast in over 40 African countries, one of Kenya’s most talented and popular film makers [c]

News

Naim Bilal Yaseen takes over as KBC MD, replacing Waithaka Waihenya

March 30, 2019 admin 0

Over a year since the exit of its former MD, public broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) has appointed a new boss. Dr Naim Bilal Yaseen has been appointed the new head of the corporation for [c]

News

MTN South Africa subscribers can now buy airtime, data bundles via WhatsApp

March 29, 2019 admin 0

MTN South Africa has partnered with global customer engagement company, Clickatell, to launch MTN Chat, in a move meant to enable customers to engage with the telco over WhatsApp. MTN Chat will enable customers to [c]

CSR

Africa Netpreneur Prize accepting applications until June 30

March 29, 2019 admin 0

The application process for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) is officially open to African entrepreneurs from all countries, sectors and age groups. The ANPI is a prize competition founded by the Jack Ma Foundation that will award US$10 million and recognize 100 African entrepreneurs over the next [c]

CSR

Brenda Mbathi appointed General Electric CEO for East Africa

March 29, 2019 admin 0

General Electric has announced the appointment of Brenda Mbathi as the CEO for East Africa. In her role, Brenda will play a pivotal role in steering the next phase of strategy and growth for General [c]

News

After partnering to launch JumiaPay in 2016, Mastercard now acquires stake in Jumia

March 29, 2019 admin 0

Jumia, thepan-African e-commerce platform, has announced that Mastercard has agreed, subject to certain conditions, to become an investor and form a strategic partnership to grow e-commerce operations and support the digital transformation of the continent. [c]

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Finserve’s mKey app has processed 2.95 million transactions worth Kshs 1.2 billion in 5 months since launch

March 29, 2019 admin 0

Equity Group’s fintech subsidiary Finserve has announced that mKey, its mobile banking platform which combines lifestyle, social and financial features, has so far processed 2.95 million transactions worth Kshs 1.2 billion in the 5 months [c]

News

Huawei and Redington Kenya award best local resellers at Partner Summit

March 29, 2019 admin 0

Huawei and Redington organized the second Partner Summit attended by 100 local IT companies who they work with to integrate Huawei’s ICT products in the Kenyan market. During the Summit, 43 awards were given out [c]

Analysis & Features

New mobile technologies helping over one million people to obtain rights to their land

March 29, 2019 admin 0

At the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference this week, land rights experts with Cadasta Foundation revealed dramatic findings concerning the impact of new mobile technologies that are helping more than one million of the world’s most vulnerable [c]

News

Microsoft hosts event in Nairobi to create awareness on its Azure offering, drive cloud migration

March 29, 2019 admin 0

Microsoft, in an effort to create awareness around its Azure offering as well as drive cloud migration, hosted an event in Nairobi, Kenya. The event also aimed to shape the perception and position Microsoft as [c]

CSR

Finally, Vodacom Tanzania settles on Hisham Hendi as the next MD

March 28, 2019 admin 0

After almost 2 years since the departure of its former CEO Ian Ferrao who moved to Lesotho to head the group’s operations in the South African country, Vodacom Tanzania has finally settled on Hisham Hendi [c]

CSR

Haki Taxi launches services in Kenya, to offer rides at Kshs 16 per kilometre

March 28, 2019 admin 0

Haki Taxi has been launched at Tana Offices, Karen, targeting Kenyans seeking affordable commute within Nairobi and its outskirts. The app has been launched as a platform to offer value for money and competitive transport [c]

BLOG

Dubai – Why it offers visitors a touch of the future

March 28, 2019 admin 0

Dubai is a city that draws in visitors from all over the world and it continues to draw in more numbers due to the diversity the emirate has to offer. If you visit the city, [c]

News

Andy Wang moves to Kenya from Uganda, replaces David Zhang as StarTimes Kenya CEO

March 28, 2019 admin 0

StarTimes Kenya has announced the appointment of Andy Wang as the CEO. Wang has been appointed to oversee operations of the PayTV services provider with a core mandate to grow the company’s subscriber base and [c]

CSR

Five Kenyan enterprises to share Kshs 13 million grant in UK’s business innovation contest

March 26, 2019 admin 0

The UK government has issued a call for proposals for a Business Innovation Challenge, under its new 4-year Kenya catalytic jobs fund. The Business Innovation Challenge seeks proposals from enterprises which are developing innovative solutions [c]

News

Kenya’s Sokowatch and 4 other startups, get funding from Outlierz Ventures

March 26, 2019 admin 0

Outlierz Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Morocco, is one of the pioneer early-stage VC funds from Francophone Africa dedicated to early stage tech-enabled companies across the continent, and backed by private investors from [c]

BLOG

Omobola Johnson, Nigeria’s ex-ICT minister, delivers keynote speech at UNECA forum

March 26, 2019 admin 0

Former Nigerian Minister for ICT, Dr. Omobola Johnson, delivered the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) annual Adebayo Adedeji  at the ongoing Conference of Ministers in Marrakech. Held in memory of the Nigerian scholar Adebayo [c]

Analysis & Features

SIM Boxing: A threat that telcos and government agencies should jointly fight

March 26, 2019 admin 0

By Derrick Sebbaale In 2016, it was estimated that telecom companies in Uganda on annual basis were losing about US $60 million due to illegal redirection of international calls traffic. The amount in part led [c]

News

Huawei, Redington Kenya to host Partner Summit in Nairobi

March 26, 2019 admin 0

Huawei Enterprise and Redington Gulf will host a joint partner summit at Hotel Mövenpick in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. The summit comes at a time when businesses across the globe are beginning to feel the effects [c]

Analysis & Features

Facebook’s new content oversight board to strength safety, encourage free expression

March 25, 2019 admin 0

By Ime Archibong With more than a billion people — and tens of thousands of languages and ethnic groups across 54 countries, Africa has a beautiful, complex tapestry of cultures. Three years ago, while in Ghana, someone told [c]

CSR

WiSci Girls camp set for Addis Ababa, targets students from Ethiopia and US

March 25, 2019 admin 0

The Women in Science (WiSci) Girls camp will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on July 3-16, 2019 for high school girls from Ethiopia and the US. The camp will be hosted by the International [c]

News

Kobo360, Togo’s global logistics platform, to launch in Ghana and Kenya

March 25, 2019 admin 0

Kobo360, the technology logistics platform, today announced that it will expand operations into Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya. The announcement follows recent news that the company launched in Lome, Togo – home to West Africa’s [c]

Analysis & Features

Álvaro Sobrinho’s Planet Earth Institute shut down, Bobab set up to take its place

March 25, 2019 admin 0

We first covered the Planet Earth Institute (PEI), in 2016 when the NGO partnered with the African Academy of Sciences to create a new PhD grant programme for African students, with 10 PhD grants expected [c]

News

Bethwel Opil to lead growth of Kaspersky Lab’s enterprise solutions, services business in Eastern Africa

March 25, 2019 admin 0

Bethwel Opil has been appointed as the Enterprise Sales Manager for Kaspersky Lab in Kenya. The appointment will see Opil continue to support and grow strong market alignment for the Kaspersky Lab brand locally with [c]

Analysis & Features

EU Commission imposes $1.7 billion fines on Google for abusive practices in online advertising

March 22, 2019 admin 0

Search giant Google was this week fined US $ 1.7 billion (€1.49 billion) by the European Commission for breaching EU antitrust rules. The European Commission accused Google of abusing its market dominance by imposing a [c]

Analysis & Features

Why you may need to change your Facebook password now, and not later

March 22, 2019 admin 0

Yesterday morning, I received this message on my inbox from Facebook: “Hi Michael, It looks like someone may have accessed your Facebook account. To secure your account, you’ll need to answer a few questions and [c]

Events Noticeboard

2019 edition of eLearning Africa set for Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in October

March 21, 2019 admin 1

The 2019 edition of eLearning Africa, the an annual, pan-African ed-tech conference and exhibition, is set for Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in October. And the two-day forum will debate and seek answers to various questions including: [c]

Analysis & Features

Average storage capacity in smartphones to surpass 80GB by end of 2019

March 21, 2019 admin 0

By Sujeong Lim The era of 1TB storage in smartphones has begun. Samsung has introduced the Galaxy S10 Plus with 1TB NAND flash memory, which is the highest storage specification of the Galaxy S10 series [c]

News

Telkom begins setting up fibre loop in Mombasa to enhance data speeds

March 21, 2019 admin 0

Telkom has begun setting up a fibre loop for Mombasa town to meet growing demand for faster data by its business and individual customers. The laying of the new metro loop will connect Mombasa, linking [c]

News

Bwala Africa receives funding from Silicon Valley investor Justin Caldbeck

March 21, 2019 admin 0

Bwala Africa, a Kenya-based last mile logistics marketplace launched early 2018 to bring consistency and reliability to a historically unreliable and highly fragmented freight industry, has raised undisclosed funding from well-known Silicon Valley angel investor [c]

News

Angola’s Unitel to chair GSMA’s Africa Fraud and Security Group for 2 years

March 21, 2019 admin 0

Unitel was elected to chair the GSMA’s Africa Fraud and Security Group (AFASG), a specific working group dedicated to dealing with critical fraud and security issues for the telecommunications industry in Africa. The mandate has [c]

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Shadrack Kiprotich wins Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award for 2022

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