Mobile money is mainstream in Kenya thanks to Safaricom, Kopo Kopo and several others who have made Lipa Na M-Pesa a reality. However, mobile money looks cliched now and BitSoko, a new Kenyan startup wants to take bitcoins mainstream by...

As immigrants studying in Canada, two Rwandan students realized that it was very expensive, slow and ineficient to send money using existing remittance services. They say it required long procedures such as looking for a branch, lineups, filling up...

  Malaria experts from across Africa met at the 13th annual National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) Best Practice Sharing Workshop. For these workshops, Novartis works in collaboration with the Global Fund, World Health Organization, the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network, the...

George Nassif,reminiscing about generations when the phone belonged only to the military pointed to cables sticking out of silver boxes and told a impassioned student learners to lurch onto the wireless revolution. “To break this monopoly, a Swedish engineer started...

It can sometimes seem as though you are spending inordinate amounts of money on replenishing your printer ink.  For something so small in size printer ink cartridges can seem to have a price that is out of all proportion...

  French telecommunication company has hired investment banks Lazard and Credit Suisse to assess a potential purchase of rival Bouygues Telecom; this deal could cost Orange up to 6 billion euros ($8.2 billion). Well, the telco has not yet made their...

StarTimes, a company that will now affect a 33 per cent drop on the cost of acquiring digital decoders has today announced a price reduction  in acquiring its approved StarTimes decoders expected to enable more Kenyans to access digital TV, increasing...

By Olumide Olusanya How can I build a successful business from scratch when there are giant businesses existing in my industry? How can I compete favorably with the giants of industry when I have limited budget? If you desire answers...

  From a humble jingle to a world-renowned piece of music that crosses cultural boundaries, Nokia’s seminal ringtone continues to signify much more than an incoming call.The most-played melody today, which celebrates its twentieth birthday this year, is estimated to...

    Viettel Cameroon has requested the government to extend its 3G monopoly. It happens that the telecommunication company has exclusive rights to the 3G monopoly for upon December 2014 as according to the contract they had signed with the government...

Released back in 2000, one of the most successful nokia gadgets Nokia 3310 is actually making a modern-day come back. This cult handset will add a 41MP pure View camera with Zeiss optics and Xenon flash, it will also run...

US web and mobile payments startup Stripe is testing bitcoin support for its merchants and at the moment is testing the service with its client, Tarsnap, an online data backup service. Stripe’s bitcoin service will let merchants accept bitcoin as...

  Kenya seems to be the most attractive country when it comes to innovations, well this is according to Royal Philips. The electronics company has announced the establishment of its Africa Innovation Hub in Nairobi, Kenya. The Philips Africa Innovation Hub...

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Equity Bank's shares have started rising steadily after it applied for a licence from the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) for a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), which will guarantee it rights to share infrastructure with any operator to...

Fashion keeps changing every year. Though old fashion trends keep coming back to rock runways some of them die a bitter death. The trends that we saw last year includes red carpets favorite Great Gatsby from the 60’s movie,...

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  By Olumide Olusanya, Dr “ But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were,...

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So I am reading this article on MTN, Millicom and Rocket Internet’s 1:1:1 partnership, and the realities of the things being hidden under corporate lingua are enormous. First time I am seeing an actual Oliver Samwer quote in a...

Ethio Telecom has picked Chinese company, Huawei to roll out 4G high speed internet in the capital city, Addis Ababa. The commission will also include 2G and 3G internet bandwidths. "In terms of allocation, Huawei will be responsible for the...

Kenya's Davis and Shirtliff, a supplier of water related and alternative energy equipment and Lorentz, a solar pump manufacturer have together launched a new application that can help borehole owners remotely manage their boreholes by phone. Dubbed the Lorentz pump...

Kenya's Crown Paints has launched a new paint that will see property owners reduce the risk of fire in buildings. Designed to make buildings resistant to sudden fires caused by paint on walls and ceilings,  the product known as Crown...

The South African government has launched a massive eLearning programme that will see 2,200 institutions in Gauteng benefit from a distribution of 88,000 tablets for school kids. Each schools shortlisted for the programme will receive 44 ten inch Huawei devices. This...

South Africa's YouDeal, a distributor-to-consumer marketplace launched in 2010 has today launched a mobile site to reach out to the increasing mobile population, as use of smartphones and mobile devices increase in South Africa. Working in partnership with Syncrony, a...

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  My quest for perfection (and my laziness) has left this article unpublished for up to one month, but now I am completing and publishing it. Now if you don’t already know, McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger/fast-food restaurants,...