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Ericsson has announced an a multi-year feature film deal with international content distributor 20th Century Fox Television Distribution for Nuvu. (Image Source: cnbc.com) Ericsson has signed a deal with international content distributor 20th Century [Read story...]
Increased customer engagement generated via Kirusa’s Contest Application Technology Platform. Airtel Rwanda organized a consumer promotion contest titled ‘Tunga,’ in partnership with Kirusa. The promotion that ran from August 11, 2016, to Novembe [Read story...]
Sendy has terminated its online taxi hailing service. (image: pixabay.com) Safaricom-backed courier firm Sendy has terminated its online taxi hailing service, According to Business Daily this was done in a bid to concentrate on its core logistics bus [Read story...]
Smart Tanzania allows users to interact on any mobile phone without the use of internet. (Image Source: themobileindian.com) For the first time, millions of people can now access exciting new interactive services on any mobile phone via SMS such as g [Read story...]
ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao (image credit: wikipedia) Over 500 participants from government, business, academia, non-governmental organizations and the United Nations family are meeting in Nairobi this week to formulate and optimize human capac [Read story...]
Africa could become ‘The New China’, says Frost & Sullivan. Africa has been identified as the continent with the potential to become the next China. Africans have embraced mobile communication technologies faster than any other parts [Read story...]
The real cost of the IT Security talent shortage. (Image Source: http://innocentclassroom.com). Large businesses that struggle to attract sufficiently skilled IT security experts end up paying up to three times more to recover from a cybersecurity in [Read story...]
Google’s latest video calling app launches globally. Google has unveiled its latest video calling app, which has been dubbed by the company as “Duo.” According to Google, the app has gone live globally and is available on either And [Read story...]
Healthcare Innovation Summit 2015. (Image Credit: Darryl Linington). T-Systems has been announced as Platinum sponsor of the 2nd Healthcare Innovation Summit. From 24-25 August 2016, healthcare and technology professionals will convene at the Radis [Read story...]
Uganda: Uber launches in Kampala. (Image Source: http://bellinghamwins.bobpritchett.com/) Following the success of Uber in many other African cities, the company revealed that it is excited to launch its ride-sharing platform to the people of Uganda [Read story...]
SimbaPay to allow money transfers of up to $45000 USD to Africa. SimbaPay has revealed that it has “Revolutionised the remittance space” by allowing its customers to transfer up to $45,000 USD to countries in Africa. This is substantially [Read story...]
Over 500 leading ICT professionals and managers will gather at this year’s AITEC East Africa ICT summit over 24-25 February at Oshwal Centre, Nairobi Kenya. Over 500 leading ICT professionals and managers will gather at this year’s AITEC East Afr [Read story...]
Transform Africa Summit. (Image Source: farm6.staticflickr.com) Rwanda has registered more than USD 150 million worth of investment in ICT projects over the last two years. The investments were courted during previous Transform Africa summits held in [Read story...]
Kenya is expected to benefit from massive infrastructure projects being implemented across the country and thus become a hub for intra-regional trade in Africa, a new study by a research firm has revealed. New analysis from ‘Frost & Sullivan, [Read story...]
The Standard Group will today unveil a new television station, the second one in its stable. The new station, KtnNews Channel, is a 24-hour station that will focus on delivering comprehensive, incisive news, current affairs programming, documentarie [Read story...]
Education experts and practitioner across the world will gather in Nairobi, Kenya next month to discuss on education investments in East Africa. The forum, which will be led by Informa Plc, the largest publicly owned exhibitions and training provider [Read story...]
Mbadi’s bid to tame the CA comes in the wake of poisoned relationship between the regulator and media owners over the former’s hard line stance on the digital migration. Kenyan lawmaker, MP John Mbadi, is set to introduce a bill aimed at trimming [Read story...]
In central east Africa is Malawi, an absolute gem of a country and a major highlight for many travellers (with good reason). Bordered by Zambia, Mozambique, and Tanzania, Malawi is a scenic and richly diverse destination, home to some 15 million peop [Read story...]
Former Apple CEO, John Sculley, is preparing to launch Obi Mobiles in Kenya as well as other countries located in East Africa. (Image Source: http://www.forbes.com/). Former Apple CEO, John Sculley, is preparing to launch Obi Mobiles in Kenya as well [Read story...]
CEO for Africa at Bharti Airtel. (Image credit: IT News Africa) Bharti Airtel, through its subsidiary company Bharti Airtel International, and IHS Holding Limited (IHS) have revealed an agreement under in which IHS will acquire over 1100 telecoms tow [Read story...]
Gareth Knight, creator of Tech4Africa. Tech4Africa is still underway at the SciBono Discovery Center, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg. IT News Africa caught up with Gareth Knight, creator of Tech4Africa, in order to discuss the top 10 [Read story...]
Mitchell Elegbe and Bernard Matthewman, CEOs of Interswitch and Paynet group respectivelyInterswitch Transnational Holding (“Interswitch”), the leading pan-African integrated payments company, announces it has reached a partnership agreement with [Read story...]
International credit rating agency, Moody’s, has raised alarm over Kenya’s deteriorating security situation saying the country’s stable outlook of B1 is under threat. The agency notes that the fragile security situation in the c [Read story...]
Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) announced plans to start operations in markets outside East Africa to grow its revenue streams. DTB General Manager Alkarim Jiwa DTB General Manager Alkarim Jiwa said the expansion plan has already taken shape, and they are [Read story...]