Month: July 2018

UPDATE: The PesaPap team reached out to us about the loan feature that couldn't be accessed immediately after the lender went ...

Facebook had teased back in May that they would rollout group video calling on WhatsApp as part of the F8 conference. WhatsApp ...

At the moment, one cannot fail to see the competition staged by local tech corporations that cut through a number ...

Over the past few weeks, I have travelled to the coastal edges of Kenya, thanks to the Tech Tamasha festival ...

There’s no doubt about it, we live in a gadget-loving, device-dependent world. We love watching Netflix on our Apple TV, ...

Ever since Analysys Mason released a report recommending that Safaricom is declared dominant and its mobile money entity separated from ...

The latest stats by the Communication Authority of Kenya reveal that as much as active mobile money subscriptions have taken ...

The Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) launched its online financial service Loop in March 2017. The product was, and is ...

Did you know machine learning is behind a vast of technologies that we use today? Including online search, Netflix recommendations, ...

Project Loon, a formerly Google experimental project that delivers internet connectivity to off-coverage areas through the use of a balloon system ...

  African Women in Technology is an event series that was born out of the desire to connect, educate and empower ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya recently released their statistical report about the industry's performance for the January-March 2108 quarter. It ...

UPDATE: The article below was based on figures provided by the Communications Authority of Kenya reporting on the mobile money ...

  The cloud. The buzzword has become commonplace in our daily lives, especially in the business world. If you use ...

Google So what did Google do, why are they being fined and are they really guilty? Google is a giant ...

When you are browsing websites on Chrome, you may have noticed that there is usually a padlock icon towards the ...

Airtel, Kenya's second largest telco has partnered with the country's largest e-commerce platform Jumia to offer subscribers shopping vouchers in ...

It has become a normal trend for local banks to adopt an online platform/app for their clients – and that ...

By now, most of you may have heard about our tech conference that went live about a month ago. If ...

Cheap smartphones are getting good and good smartphones are getting cheap. Not my words but they hold true. You no ...

Safaricom's unstated goal is to transform lives and the company has invested heavily in value addition services that propel them ...

The English Premier League is one of the most watched spectacles in the world. Thanks to its popularity, media houses ...

I've not used an antivirus on my laptop for a year now and that is a big deal. Windows PCs ...

GSMA has published some interesting numbers in its Mobile Economy report. The statistics were revealed at the GSMA Mobile 360 ...

Towards the end of last month, WhatsApp announced a feature that should have been standard since the beginning: labelling forwarded messages. We ...

With the growth of mobile money services in Kenya and around a few African countries it is only natural for ...

We have previously covered the offerings of Shortlist, a technology firm that has figured out how to digitize the recruiting ...

The Infinix Smart series is a line-up of entry-level devices that cost less than Kes.10,000. First introduced in 2017, the ...

On 17th of July, Reuters reported that Safaricom was in "advanced talks" with the Ethiopian government to take the mobile money ...

In August 2017, we covered Alphabet’s ‘Wi-Fi for the World’ Project dubbed Loon. At that time, 10 balloons were deployed ...

Not shocked at all

There are several ways we consume news online: Reading them on online publications or watching videos posted on social media ...

Sometime last week, technology corporation Cisco released its 11th 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report. Most pointers of the report described the ...

Former US President, Barack Obama is in the country and obviously had to do the classic meet and greet with ...

Did you know that mentorship is cited as one of the core factors that effectively complements classroom learning? Research has ...