Instagram Is Growing Very Fast and Now Has 400 Million Registered Users
September 23, 2015
Want More Replays Per Day On Your Snaps On Snapchat? If So, You Will Have To Pay For That
September 17, 2015
If you are on snapchat, then you know that there is a limit on the number of replays per day you can have on your snaps. At the moment, you can only replay one snap…
Safaricom Will Not Increase the Transaction Fees for Equitel Customers After all
September 12, 2015
Safaricom has suspended the increased rates introduced for Equity Bank’s Equitel customers on 1st August 2015 and confirmed the revised rates will now take effect at the same time for all banks. “We are cognizant…
30-Second Video Ads are coming to Instagram
September 10, 2015
Popular photo sharing app, Instagram, has been trying to make money for some time now but no one knew exactly how that would work. The company has finally revealed its new advertising strategy. Instagram is…
Over 1 Billion People Used Facebook in a Single Day This Past Monday
August 28, 2015
Facebook is undoubtedly the King when it comes to social networking. The social site has the highest number of registered users even though not all of them are active users. This past Monday, Facebook said…
Equitel’s New Transaction Fees Show How Complicated and Expensive Mobile Money Transfer Services Can Be
August 25, 2015
Last week, infotake reported that Equitel had increased its transactions fees by 100% making it quite expensive to use the service compared to other services such as Mpesa. I did not publish this story as…
MTN Business launches Microsoft-enabled pan-African cloud solution
August 25, 2015
MTN Business has launched a pan-African cloud platform that offers customers a true hybrid cloud solution serviced from MTN’s data centres. The platform is powered by Microsoft’s technology and is built on MTN’s Global MPLS…
Four Things the Jury Will Consider When Selecting Projects for the Orange API Challenge
August 24, 2015
By now, you probably know of the Orange API challenge that is already on and is a platform for local developers to integrate Orange’s APIs to create valuable services around this. The challenge requires developers…
Three Things You Need To Know About the Orange Developer Challenge
August 22, 2015
The Orange developer challenge is already on and as usual there are questions you may have about it. I got a few of these questions from my previous post and thought I should try to…
Eight Tech Stories You May Have Missed This Week
August 22, 2015
The week has just ended and I thought it will be a good thing to share some of the few stories we covered that you may have missed. From Xiaomi coming to Africa to Google…