Kenya: Xiaomi and Vivo Upstage Kenyan Smartphone Market, With Performance and Prices

With Apple and Samsung respectively being the flagship bearers in this increasingly competitive phone market, the monumental and fairly recent efforts by Xiaomi and vivo alike have… Read more »

South Africa: Avoid Data Disaster With the Personal Touch of an SME

Modern organisations must develop data cultures, particularly in the Public Sector which manages a lot of important information. But establishing such a culture is no small task,… Read more »

East Africa: Seaways Digital Strategy Calls for Major Policy Changes in the Automotive Sector

Recently feted car portal,Garimoto has seen a 30 percent revenue growth for Seaways Kenya Limited since its deployment four years ago. Read more »

East Africa: Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 Now Officially Be Avalable in Retail Stores

The recently launched Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 will officially be available in all retail stores across the country from 6th July 2019. This follows a successful one week pre-order… Read more »

East Africa: Chinganya - Technology Set to Improve Data Quality, Timeliness & Dissemination of Census Results

A five-day experts group meeting on supporting electronic data collection and dissemination in censuses-making opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday with Economic Commission for… Read more »

East Africa: IS Sponsors Regional IOT & AI Summit 2019

Internet Solutions (IS) has recently penned the sponsorship for the East African Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence (IoT & AI) summit to be held at the Radisson Blu… Read more »

Africa: Kaspersky, Interpol Renews Partnership in Joint Fight Against Cybercrime

A global cybersecurity key player, Kaspersky has announced cooperation with Interpol, signing a new five-year agreement to reinforce their collaboration in the fight against… Read more »

Kenya: Worldremit Launches New Product for Business Payments to Kenya

Kenyan entrepreneurs and contractors selling goods and services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K. can now receive payments faster and more conveniently… Read more »

Africa: East Africa's National Budgets Skewed to Fix Tighter Times Ahead

The iconic national treasury briefcases with their conspicuously imposing respective national emblems demonstrated a showcase of ownership, their 2019-2020 contents squarely seem… Read more »

Tanzania: DPO Launches B2B Virtual, Prepaid Payment Card in Kenya and Tanzania

DPO Group has launched a business to business payment card dubbed, 'DumaCard', which is offered as a plastic card as well as in virtual form, initially to its 10,000 business… Read more »

South Africa: GESP Launches Website to Help Address Global E-Waste Challenge

The Global E-waste Statistics Partnership (GESP) of which the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a founding member, launched globalewaste.org, an open source portal… Read more »

Kenya: Koko to Utilise Smart ATMs for Dispensing Clean Bio-Ethanol Fuel in Kenya

KOKO Networks announced the launch of KOKO Fuel, a clean, safe and affordable liquid ethanol cooking fuel solution, that is dispensed from "KOKOpoint" Smart Fuel ATMs located in… Read more »

Kenya: Alliance High Challenges Peer Schools Into a Computing and Robotics Fair

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimates that within the next 10 years, there will be more than two million technology jobs that will not be filled due to the lack… Read more »

Africa: SIM Swap Fraud - a New Wave of Attacks Targeting Financial, Online Services in Africa

During Kaspersky Lab's annual Cyber Security Weekend that took place in Cape Town, South Africa, Kaspersky Lab experts discussed the wide spread growth of mobile payments across… Read more »

East Africa: IS Appoints Sylvester Mboya the Chief Commercial Officer

Internet Solutions (IS) has hired Sylvester Mboya to spearhead its commercial business unit as the company looks to grow its revenues and footprint in the East African region. Read more »

East Africa: AI for Mental Health

As the World observes the May Mental Health Awareness month, preceding the World Mental Health Day in June, which is themed to 'Prevent Suicide', it emerges that myths and the… Read more »

East Africa: Fsis and Fintechs Collaboration On the Rise

According to a recently released white paper by DLA Piper, Financial Services organizations reported that 52 per cent engaged with FinTechs in the last two years (2016-2018) and… Read more »

East Africa: CIO East Africa Partners With AHS to Host Robotics Fair

CIO East Africa has on boarded the bandwidth that will lend a hand in seeing to the success of the annual Computing and Robotics Fair at Alliance High School. Read more »

East Africa: Four Challenges Blockchain Must Overcome to Achieve Mass Appeal

When most people think about blockchain, they likely associate it with Bitcoin or other types of cryptocurrency. Read more »

Kenya: Copia Kenya Launches E-Commerce Service for Buying, Sending Goods Upcountry

Copia Kenya has launched a new online shopping solution that makes it easier for people living in urban areas to buy goods and have them delivered to their friends and family… Read more »

East Africa: Saccos to Either Embrace Technology or Die

Saccos which have embraced modern technology in service delivery have the competitive edge in the market however such are not a majority in Kenya or perhaps East Africa as it… Read more »

Kenya: Fortinet Calls On Saccos to Digitally Transform

We are sending and receiving more data than we can process in every single moment. We are even spending more money online than we ever before intended to. This is a drive for… Read more »

Kenya: Huawei, Redington Partnership Seeks to Enhance Efforts to Grow Kenya's ICT Ecosystem

Huawei and Redington organised the second Partner Summit attended by 100 local IT companies who they work with to integrate Huawei's leading ICT products in the Kenyan market. Read more »

Kenya: Metropol Kenya Launches TV Station, Harvest Terminal to Provide Investors With Data

Metropol Corporation, commonly known as a credit rating services, recently launched a 24-hour TV station dubbed Metropol TV alongside an information resource called the Harvest… Read more »

Rwanda: Kenya Hosts Talks About Cybersecurity Ahead of the Regional CSS in Rwanda

With the regional Cloud and Cybersecurity summit (CSS) in Kigali, Rwanda, just around the corner, CreditInfo and Serianu hosted different talk sessions pertaining to fraud and… Read more »