Airtel Partners with UBA to give Customers Mobile Banking and Savings Services
February 15, 2016
Airtel Kenya has partnered with United Bank of Africa (UBA Bank) to provide mobile-based financial services to Kenyans. The partnership will enable Airtel and UBA to provide a Virtual Savings Account dubbed Akiba Mkononi to…
Orange launches the Entrepreneur Club for start-ups in Africa and the Middle East
February 12, 2016
Orange is launching the Entrepreneur Club, a new space for information in French and English devoted to entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East. The website (http://entrepreneurclub.orange) is a source of information for entrepreneurs that…
Facebook is testing a new SMS integration feature on Android
February 12, 2016
Facebook is currently testing a new SMS integration feature for its Android app. This new feature will offer users the chance of messaging their contacts (both on Facebook and their contact lists) very easily without…
Expect More Changes On Twitter as The Company Tries Attract and Retain Users
February 11, 2016
Twitter is a very popular social networking site but its growth has been stagnant for some time now. As new social sites keep coming up and the existing ones see their user base grow, Twitter…
Twitter Officially Introduces Its New Timeline That Pulls Puts the Best Tweets First
February 11, 2016
Twitter officially introduced its new timeline yesterday. We had heard that the company planned to roll out this controversial feature that will put the best tweets first. It is quite strange for Twitter to roll…
Who Remembers Back In The Day When Safaricom Was Selling the Nokia 3210 For Ksh 20,000?
February 9, 2016
We have come so far as a country and this is evident when you look at the prices of most items we buy. This is especially for mobile phones which are slightly affordable right now…
Apple Watch Accounted for Two Thirds of All Smartwatches Shipped in 2015
February 8, 2016
Smartwatch adoption is still low even as manufacturers try push these new gadgets to the end users. The market has previously been dominated by Samsung and Pebble but it looks like Apple is disrupting their…
Anonymous Threatens Cyber-Attacks On African Governments Over Corruption
February 8, 2016
Hacking group Anonymous has announced a targeted attack on corrupt African governments. The group announced this on Twitter saying that it has turned its sights to Africa and the first countries to be hit will…
Leonard Stiegeler is the new General Manager for Ringier Africa
February 6, 2016
Ringier is restructuring its international market set-up for the beginning of the new year. On the first of January, Ringier Africa and Asia have implemented various changes further supporting the strong growth of its international…