As most of the planet was glued to screens watching Brazil play Croatia in the opening match of the World Cup, South Korean electronics giant Samsung chose to launch the Galaxy Tab S, its latest tablet device, to a...

SwiftKey, the startup that makes the popular Android word-predicting keyboard software  is switching its consumer keyboard app from a $3.99 paid download to free. "We have made the decision to go free to better enable everyone, everywhere, to use SwiftKey's market-leading technology...

Viber, the VoIP and messaging app recently acquired by Rakuten for $900 million, has today announced that it has crossed 100 million active users and more than 360 million unique registered users Based on its number of online users, and those available via push notification,...

Two days to the FIFA World cup Brazil 2014 DSTV SuperSport has joined in the largest football extravaganza promising viewers Augmented reality. Real-time social engagement. Live Streaming. Behind-the-scenes pictures and videos of  DStv’s SuperSport’s expert panel, including Manchester United...

Two year-old Startappz, an Egypt, UAE, Jordan, KSA and USA app developer firm took home 9 awards on Sunday 8th June 2014 on the Jordan App & Web Awards (Jawa) ceremony. The firm has 12 released apps on iOS,...

By David Okwi, Editor in Chief, Dignited.com (formerly TechPost.ug). This is his second piece on challenges developers mobile face in Africa. If you missed the first piece, find it here. Last week on Techmoran, I did hit off an eye-opening...

Africa Internet Holding (AIH)'s online food ordering service Hellofood has partnered with Tigo to have the app pre-installed on Tigo smartphones to allow Hellofood customers to order food online or via the app, and have it delivered to their doorstep. The...

By David Okwi, Editor in Chief Dignited.com (formerly Techpost.ug) We’ve heard it time and again how Africa is touted as a “mobile-first” continent from numerous blog posts and mobile conferences. In fact, basing on success stories such as Kenya’s M-pesa,...

Kenya's real estate listing site Anza has launched a new native iPhone application for their Kenyan property listing platform. The new app is available for download for free in the iTunes store. With this new addition, Anza has become...

iOS and Android users in both Cape Town and Johannesburg have a reason to smile with the help of Pocketplan, an app that's helping users go out in the cities by giving them the ability to scroll through...

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In a move that will see it consolidate its grip on Kenya's real estate market, BuyRentKenya.com, the country's largest online property site by listings has raised an undisclosed investment from One Africa Media (OAM) for a minority stake. Speaking to...

A new app dubebd LinkedUp!, has launched to introduce a smart new way to date professionals from your LinkedIn network from your smartphone. Now available for iOS, LinkedUp! says it's the first interactive mobile dating application that allows users to...

    Hellofood.com is an online and mobile platform where people can order food from all the restaurants in their city. The company works with all the most popular restaurants in each of the 14 cities that theycurrently operate in Africa,...

Etisalat Nigeria wants to transform the country's banking sector with its new smartphone mobile banking app that will enable customers to access their mobile money services faster and with more ease. With over 15 million downloads to date, the free...

  MTN Group is the one and only South African company that has made it to the World Champions list. The list, compiled by analysts from American multinational financial services company, Citi Group, names global companies dominating their respective industries. For...

  It has only been less than a week since the Samsung S5 handset went on sale, yet the finger print sensor has already been hacked, talk about smart brains. The good thing is that this hack was not illegal but...

Sony’s latest flagship device Sony Xperia Z2 has emerged 79 out of a possible 100 on the DxOMark mobile scale beating out Nokia’s 808. The new handset comes with 20.7- megapixel camera and ability to record in 4K video, earned...

By Zainab Ismail Samsung Electronics has forecast a drop in profit for the second quarter in a row despite being  the world's biggest maker of TVs and mobile phones, The company expects to make an operating profit of 8.4 trillion won...

Rocket Internet's  price comparison website PricePanda has today launched in India, one of the fastest growing and most promising economies in the world in a move to create full price transparency and enable customers to make well informed purchasing...

Today, as the world commemorates the 20th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide in which more than 800,000 people died over 100 days, Pan-African video-on-demand service Buni TV has released the acclaimed Rwandan film GREY MATTER (MATIERE...

Microsoft has rolled out updated Windows Phone software with voice-search features and offering it for free to manufacturers of smartphones and tablets. The software giant’s move is in a quest to catch up with Apple and Google mobile devices considering...

South Africans will be having their elections on 7th May this year; Mail & Guardian felt the need to keep the South African voting public informed in the run-up to the 2014 national elections. The company has launched a...

HTC has a new Flagship smartphone, the HTC One (M8). The most captivating thing about this smartphone is that is has a larger screen, louder speakers and has a depth sensor that lets photos be focused again after taking...

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A new upgraded version of YouTube for Apple has been released. This Google service app has new playlist and commenting features. Well, it is a minor upgrade on the music and video part but the improvements in the commenting platform...

Inspired by the loss of a friends whose lives could have been saved, and daily random accident victims whose lost lives before they could get any medical attention, Nigeria's JumpSpace Communications has lunched a location-based mobile application in a...