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 […]
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 […]
The third Launchpad Accelerator Africa class has been announced by Google as part of its ongoing efforts to support entrepreneurship on the continent. This third class, which starts on April 1, 2019, involves 12 startups […]
Kampala will in June host hundreds of key players in the African and Global Internet industry sector at the Africa Internet Summit 2019. The event dubbed AIS’19 will take place from June 9 to 21, 2019 […]
Liquid Telecom has appointed Dennis Keko Kahindi as CEO of Liquid Telecom Uganda, effective March 1, 2019. Dennis will be responsible for accelerating Liquid Telecom’s growth and market penetration in this important region. He brings […]
Standard Chartered has announced the start of the second phase of its digital-only retail bank across Africa. As part of the development, the Bank will launch its digital solution in four key markets during the […]
Liquid Telecom is supporting African gaming developers, programmers and designers at locally hosted Global Game Jam events in East Africa this weekend. As a local partner in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, Liquid Telecom will […]
Gemalto, in cooperation with its local partner SCINTL, has been awarded the contract for the supply of a Border Management System (BMS) including airport self-service eKiosks at Entebbe International Airport, Uganda, in a move meant to create a faster […]
M-SCAN, a Uganda-based firm that develops portable mobile ultrasound devices (Ultrasonic probes), was crowned as Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most Promising Startup at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018, held in Lagos, Nigeria on December 11, 2018. Bettr, a developer of […]
First Brick Holdings, part of Roha Group, has announced plans for multiple investments to boost the digitalisation of East and Southern Africa with the funding, and development, of several data centres across the region. These […]
FreeConferenceCall.com, a conferencing and collaboration platform, has announced that it has launched free conference calling service in Uganda. Uganda joins Algeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and South Africa on a growing list of countries that can […]
Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) and Liquid Telecom have signed an agreement to extend affordable internet to Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda. As part of the deal, Liquid Telecom will lease Ketraco’s electricity transmission lines to […]
Wefarm, the farmer-to farmer digital network, has reached over 1.1 million users across Kenya and Uganda. For the first time, farmers have also asked and answered more than one million questions through Wefarm in a […]
Two Kenya-based start-ups are among six African start-ups selected to benefit from the 2018 Amref Africa’s Innovate for Life Fund Accelerator programme. The start-ups have been selected out of over 300 applications drawn from all over […]
In its efforts to define the future of Africa’s film and TV industry, MultiChoice Africa has revealed the 20 hopefuls who have been chosen to be the first students of the MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) […]
Google has unveiled its second Launchpad Accelerator Africa class as part of its ongoing efforts to support entrepreneurship on the continent. The accelerator, which is housed in Lagos, Nigeria, has already demonstrated its value. The […]
SafeBoda, a motorcycle ride service which was founded in Kampala, Uganda, four years ago, has launched its services in Nairobi, Kenya. Since its launch, SafeBoda has so far signed up over 5,000 trained and professional riders […]
The popular series Twist of Fate, which returns for its second season, will now also be available in Swahili. Twist of Fate airs at 20:00 CAT on Zee World – DStv channel 166 and GOtv channel 25. The Swahili […]
Brian Gitta, a 24-year-old Ugandan software engineer, has won the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Brian Gitta becomes the first Ugandan to win the prize, and the youngest winner to date. Gitta and his team developed […]
Africa’s agribusiness and food sector registered strong private equity deal activity during the past month of May 2018, according to industry information service Africa Private Equity News. EXEO Capital announced a $6.4-million investment, through its Agri-Vie Fund II, […]
Three Kenyan IT firms – Flux, M-Shule and UjuziKilimo – have received international by emerging among the winners in the 2018 edition of the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge and being awarded various cash prizes. Now […]
About 46.4 percent of businesses in Ghana are owned by women, making the West Africa nation one of the top performing African countries when it comes to women entrepreneurship according to Mastercard Index of Women’s Entrepreneurship […]
In partnership with Google, Mara Corporation (MC) is set to release the Mara X smartphone for the African market in the second quarter of 2018. The Mara X will be launched as part of Google’s […]
Mastercard and M-KOPA have announced, at the #MWC2018, a partnership that will provide Ugandans living without electricity a simple way to light up their homes and businesses. M-KOPA, which already provides affordable, safe and clean […]
Pesapal is has announced the launch of its mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution dubbed Pesapal Sabi. Sabi allows businesses and individuals to process secure card payments in store or on the go via their Android mobile […]
Liquid Telecom is supporting start-ups entering the DataHack4FI innovation competition by providing free high-speed internet access and cloud-based services. Now in its second year, the DataHack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) competition, an initiative by insight2impact (i2i), brings […]
By Denis Kruger Four years after its launch, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Tanzania are benefitting from quicker and cheaper payments through the East African Payment System (EAPS). Currently serving a population of more than 150 […]
Wefarm, the farmer-to-farmer digital network, has announced that it has reached over 300,000 farmers across East Africa, namely in Kenya and Uganda. There are over 180,000 farmers in Kenya using Wefarm at present. Wefarm is […]
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) has launched the GTBank Debit Mastercard in Uganda with the aim to build a stronger financial payment sector and ensure all citizens are financially included. In June, GTBank became the first […]
Microsoft has announced 21 East African entrepreneurs who will receive #Insiders4Good Fellowships. Launched in partnership with GrowthAfrica, the Fellowship aims to support promising entrepreneurs in turning their social business ideas into reality. This is the […]
Samsung has added to its growing list of education initiatives in East Africa by bolstering its Library Project in East Africa through the rollout of e-reader tablets to eight different schools across the region. The […]
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