Many people often confuse the similarities and differences surrounding both web hosting and cloud computing. While many believe that cloud and hosted services are the same, this is not the case. Yes, they are both [c]
Huawei Mobile Kenya has rolled out a one week campaign that will see consumers pre-order the newly-launched HUAWEI Y9s smartphone and get free headphones in all retail stores across the country. The pre-order campaign phase [c]
As part of its commitment to streamline and enable digital transformation across various service industries, Microsoft in partnership with Harvard Business Review hosted a roundtable targeted at Chief Financial Officers (CFO) and Chief Operations Officers [c]
StarTimes Kenya and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio and Television have unveiled joint broadcast content development efforts between Kenyan actors with their Chinese counterparts. The development will see the first ever Sino-Africa reality television [c]
“Cyber-attacks” or “Cybercrime”, the word is familiar to all now a days. Attacks made on smartphones or computers to grab all your personal or business information, such as contact information, messages, bank information etc. are [c]
Technology has revolutionised the way every facet of the world operates. Driving this revolution is data, without which, none of the changes we’ve seen in the last few decades would have been possible. “The common [c]
The next Innovation Africa Summit, a major event seeing African policy-makers come together to discuss the subject of education, will be held from December 3 – 5, 2019 in Accra, Ghana. Canon Central and North [c]
As part of the 10th edition of its regional program For Women in Science, the L’Oréal Foundation, alongside UNESCO held a ceremony honoring 20 female researchers who received the 2019 Young Talent Award for Sub-Saharan [c]
Openet, a provider of digital business support services (BSS), has announced the opening of two new offices in South Africa and Canada, to better meet global demand for its innovative digital BSS portfolio. The company [c]
On Black Friday, we enter a boom period for online shopping – many online stores are advertising juicy discounts and other promotions. But sellers aren’t the only ones on the hunt for buyers. Lurking in [c]
Seven Seas Technologies has lost Kshs 4.9 billion contract it was awarded by the Ministry of Health to run a data centre connecting various health facilities across the country. According to mdia reports, Health PS [c]
James Kizza, Assistant Commissioner IT, Uganda Revenue Authority is the winner of the East Africa CIO of the Year Award 2019 for his crucial role in the trail-blazing digital development of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). According to [c]
The three-day Web Rangers Africa Summit came to an end in Nairobi on Saturday with organisers seeking to explore new ways of tackling the challenge of online threats against the youth. The annual Summit, organized [c]
Orange has completed the sale of its entire 95.5% stake in Orange Niger to Zamani Com. Zamani Com is owned by Mohamed Rissa of Rimbo Invest and Moctar Thiam of Greenline Communications, both minority shareholders [c]
Showmax, Multichoice’s Africa’s Subscription video on demand services (SVoD) unit, has launched a revamped mobile app for subscribers in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. The revamped app is part of Showmax drive to change how [c]
Safaricom has announced a partnership with Kenya Breweries (KBL) to connect and enhance the brewer’s coolers. The connected coolers are wired with sensors which leverage on the Internet of things (IoT) – the inter-networking of [c]
Uber, along with private and public sector stakeholders, this held the country’s first Tech for Safety Summit to explore Kenya’s public safety challenges and how technology can be used to build safer communities now and [c]
The ICT fraternity has thrown its support behind the recently enacted Data Protection law stating that it’s a good regulation policy framework for the industry. Signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta two weeks ago, the Data [c]
Sophos has published How Ransomware Attacks, a playbook for defenders that explains how ransomware variants attack and impact victims. The playbook complements the 2020 Threat Report released on November 4, 2019 and features a detailed analysis of [c]
Ireland-based Anam Technologies, a mobile messaging solutions vendor, has opened its African headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Working through global partnerships with various MNOs including MTN, Orange and Sinch, Anam has already secured 22 networks across [c]
Safaricom and Huawei jointly received the ‘Most Innovative Service’ award at AfricaCom 2019 in Cape Town for the telco’s Fuliza service. The award recognizes the two companies for developing the mobile money overdraft service which [c]
Markets across Africa are evolving, possibly more rapidly than ever before in history, and this is largely due to continuous advances in and the growing uptake of digital technology. In commemorating Africa Industrialisation Day and the [c]
By Shannon McCrocklin Agricultural mobile phone applications have the potential to ignite a revolution in farming that will lower prices for consumers, as well as educate, motivate, and support farmers to increase production. In this post, we [c]
Africa Magic, in association with MultiChoice Nigeria, has announced that entries are now being accepted for the seventh edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA). Entries opened Wednesday, November 13 and close on [c]
Kenya-based cloud solutions provider, CloudHop, has entered a new deal with Nasdaq Governance Solutions, a business unit of Nasdaq, to provide its clients in Eastern Africa with access to Nasdaq Boardvantage, a board portal and [c]
Recent research by Gartner has suggested that South Africa will finish the year as the fourth fastest-growing major IT market in the world, with the country’s broader IT market anticipated to ultimately grow faster than everyone else, except [c]
Duco, a provider of cloud-based enterprise data integrity and next-gen reconciliation services, has announced that Mama Money, the social business money transfer operator, has gone live on the Duco reconciliation platform. The solution enables Mama Money [c]
By Pedro Guerreiro Our continent is hurtling towards an uncertain future that is being shaped by the forces of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It’s too early to tell how exactly the confluence of rapid change [c]
SEACOM has partnered with Raxio Data Centre, Uganda’s carrier-neutral, enterprise-grade data centre scheduled to launch in early 2020. The move follows SEACOM’s recent launch of Enterprise connectivity solutions in Uganda. Raxio facility in Uganda will [c]
By Karen Anthony In 2019, there are a few email marketing best practices that you should follow if you want to boost your business as well as the traffic by integrating Instagram along with it. [c]
Zazu Africa has announced a deal with Mastercard to issue prepaid cards linked to the Zazu app in a move that will help to reduce cash dependence and increase financial inclusion in Zambia. Zazu is [c]
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