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