An initiative by the Kenyan Premier League aimed at finding lost children has scooped four awards at the recently concluded African Media & Advertising Summit held in Marrakesh, Morocco under the theme, “Positive Brands”. The [c]
Huawei Mobile Kenya has announced the launch of HUAWEI Y9 Prime 2019, the latest Y Series device, a line of smartphones that caters to the younger generation to realize their true potential. The Huawei Y9 [c]
Truecaller has launched its voice call feature, ‘Truecaller Voice’ globally in its bid to become a complete communication app. The in-app voice over internet protocol (VoIP) based feature will allow users to make free HD, [c]
Kenya’s Solar Freeze and Illuminum Greenhouses have been named as winners in Cisco’s Problem Solver Challenge. Solar Freeze won the first runner up position, getting US$75,000 (about Kshs 7.5 million), and Illuminum Greenhouses was the [c]
Pan-African connectivity provider, BringCom, in partnership with science and technology investor, Imprimatur Capital, and European edge cloud software company, GIG Technology, have together birthed what is to provide the African technology industry with cloud sovereignty, [c]
Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs and AMBER, the SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research hosted at Trinity College Dublin, have created a new, advanced formula for battery composition that makes batteries more powerful by [c]
The 2019 edition of REACH (Recognizing Excellence around Champions of Health) awards have opened for nominations to reward and celebrate frontline health workers and innovators who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership and commitment to eliminate global [c]
Visa, the official sponsor of the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations, has unveiled the five Kenyan children who will have the opportunity to be player escorts, leading some of the world’s best football players [c]
KCB Foundation, the social investments arm of KCB Group, has secured Kshs 10 billion ($100 million) funding from the MasterCard Foundation for scaling up its 2jiajiri programme that seeks to empower youth entrepreneurs for job creation. [c]
Effectively expanding your online retail brand can often be a daunting process, and it can be difficult to know where to begin. However, taking the time to conduct thorough research regarding your demographic as well [c]
By Africa Netpreneur Prize team What would you do if you were given free money for your business? Grants give the beneficiaries peace of mind to be able to build their businesses. They are an [c]
By Mengmeng Zhang In Q1 2019, Huawei overtook Apple as the second largest smartphone brand globally. In China, Huawei has remained the number one smartphone brand since Q4 2017. Over the years, it has also successfully made [c]
Mastercard recently unveiled its payment innovation at Seamless North Africa 2019 while discussing its business priorities over the coming years, which are designed to help Egypt achieve its digital economy vision. Speaking at the event, [c]
IRONSCALES, the automated phishing prevention, detection and response platform, has announced that 42% of all email phishing attacks are polymorphic, according to new company research that analyzed the frequency of attack permutations. Over the past [c]
Kaspersky’s recent report ‘The true value of digital privacy: are consumers selling themselves short?’ has revealed that four-in-ten (40%) of South African consumers would give up their social media accounts to guarantee their data remains private [c]
Months after the new bank notes were introduced in the country in a bid to curb money laundering, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has launched a mobile app for Android devices to create increased [c]
Ian Fernandes has formally announced his resignation as the CEO of Mediamax to progress to another stage in his career as he pursues opportunities in new media and entertainment. Ian is set to leave Mediamax [c]
Bolt, the ride-hailing platform formerly called Taxify, is set to expand its operations beyond Nairobi and Mombasa and launch in 3 major urban centers in Kenya, setting the stage for a continued push to expand [c]
IBS Bank has announced a partnership with Visa to deepen its payments services in Somalia by going live with its acquiring business on the Visa platform. Through the partnership, IBS Bank will accelerate its banking [c]
Azuri Technologies, a provider of pay-as-you-go solar home solutions to off-grid households across Africa, has received a strategic investment of US $26 million, led by Marubeni Corporation with additional participation from existing shareholders, including IP [c]
The HUAWEI Y9 Prime 2019 is set to be launched in the Kenyan market next week.The new device boasts an all-new HUAWEI Ultra Full View Display, a completely bezel-less design free of any notches, holes [c]
A new Kaspersky survey has discovered that a lack of understanding and trust is holding consumers back from using cryptocurrencies. Kaspersky’s report, ‘Uncharted territory: why consumers are still wary about adopting cryptocurrency’, reveals that whilst 34% [c]
The more things change, the more they stay the same, so the saying goes. And this seems true in Kenya’s telecoms industry, or more specifically, with the industry leader, Safaricom. For Safaricom has decided to [c]
Nigeria’s Dangote Group has deployed Freshservice by Freshworks, the firm’s cloud-based service desk software that helps modernize the IT teams along with other business functions. Integration of Freshservice offers a host of Information Technology Infrastructure [c]
As it marks its five-year anniversary, Tala, the mobile lending app, has disbursed loans to over 2.5 million customers globally. When Tala (formerly Mkopo Rahisi) launched in Kenya in 2014, it was the first in [c]
General Electric (GE) has announced the appointment of Jaime Morais as the Country Leader for the company in Angola. In this position, Jaime will play a pivotal role in steering the next phase of strategy [c]
As we trundle towards the halfway point of 2019, those interested in the technology used by the casino games industry will be looking forward to such events as G2E 2019 (October) and already preparing for [c]
By Nirav Shah The SD-WAN market is experiencing rapid growth, with about 50% of organizations expected to have deployed SD-WAN by the end of 2019. But since it relies on direct internet access, SD-WAN introduces security [c]
Huawei has strengthened its position in a major global brand index while also enhancing its brand value. BrandZ’s annual Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands study, published by WPP’s research arm Kantar, ranks Huawei 47th (up one [c]
Compared to this time last year, children are becoming more active adopters of e-commerce sites: their interest in online shopping has more than tripled the last 12 months – from 2% to 9%. This is according [c]
IBM has announced the expansion of its quantum computing efforts to Africa in a new collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in South Africa. Wits University is the first African partner on the [c]
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