“We Shipped Over 100 Million Smartphones This Year,” Says Huawei
December 18, 2015
Oracle Cloud business records strong quarter performance as a strengthening US dollar impacts negatively on the bottom line
December 18, 2015
The strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to foreign currencies had a significant impact on Oracle Corporation 2016 Q2 results with total revenues down 6% at US$9 billion. Cloud plus On-Premise software revenues were US$7…
Orange announces winners of 2015 AMEA Developers Challenge
December 17, 2015
Orange presented the “2015 Orange AMEA Developers Challenge” prize to FarmConnecta yesterday evening during the Cairo ICT event. FarmConnecta, a Botswana-based start-up that has developed an information sharing and billing system designed for the agricultural…
Airtel Partners with Standard Chartered Bank to improve mobile banking services
December 16, 2015
Airtel Kenya and Standard Chartered Bank today reiterated their commitment to offer free access to mobile banking to their customers through Airtel Money. The partnership which was first launched in 2009 when Airtel began mobile…
“Use Bitcoins at your own peril,” Warns Central Bank of Kenya
December 16, 2015
As the court battle between BitPesa and Safaricom goes on, the Central Bank of Kenya has come forward and commented on the use of bitcoins and other digital currencies in the country. The CBK has…
Facebook Is Testing a Real-Time Comments Feature to Tell You When Your Friends Are Typing a Comment
December 15, 2015
Yesterday, Facebook confirmed that it is working on a feature that will allow you to see the friends who are writing comments. This is the same feature as you currently have on WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger…
Facebook at Work Will Be Launched in The Next Few Months
December 15, 2015
Facebook is preparing to launch a professional version of its social networking site in the next few months. The company confirmed this a few days ago through Julien Codorniou, director of global platform partnerships. Facebook…
Telkom Kenya introduces regional roaming bundle
December 14, 2015
Telkom Kenya mobile pre-paid subscribers can now enjoy favourable roaming voice and SMS rates following the introduction of the Mashariki bundle. This is in response to the East African Community’s goal to lower the cost…
Start a Library raises 9 Million Shillings as they seek to build libraries for primary school children in Kenya
December 11, 2015
Today Storymoja announced that they have raised 9 million Kenya Shillings towards the Start A Library campaign. The amount raised will support the development of 30 libraries to be installed in schools throughout Kenya in…
You Will Soon Be Able to Load Facebook’s News Feeds On the Slowest Connection and Comment On Posts Even When Offline
December 10, 2015
Facebook has been focused on getting as many people online as possible. With the high costs of data especially in developing nations, this has become a challenge. Facebook knows this and that is why the…