HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones has launched the Nokia 8110 4G in Kenya going for KES 8,000.00 in stores in Kenya as part of its Originals family. This 4G feature phone comes complete with the elegantly curved slider design. Giving you the chance to switch off, have fun and ...
eCommerce company Sky.Garden has made groundbreaking implementations to its payments module to ensure real-time payments to their sellers after signing a deal with digital payments firm Interswitch. The deal will improve speed and accuracy of mobile money payments and allow seamless cash flow management and comes months after the firm ...
The Ecobank Mobile App, a financial services application across 33 African countries, has processed 9 million transactions worth over $1 billion since launch less than 18 months ago. With over 4 million users, the Ecobank Mobile App is available to all, enabling users to open an Ecobank Xpress™ Account instantly on their ...
Equity Bank has reviewed withdrawal charges on its Equity PayPal Withdrawal service in a move that will see users pay as low as 1% on withdrawals made from their PayPal account. According to Equity Bank Group CEO and MD, Dr. James Mwangi: “Financial inclusion continues to remain at the core ...
The online world is magnificent. Its near-infinite amount of data has created a reality in which everyone has endless resources, nothing is too ambitious, and community is easy to achieve. Of course, once you step back into the offline world, the web can seem like a den of tigers. All ...
In 2015, the Motorcycle Assemblers Association of Kenya estimated that on average 8 million Kenyans used a boda boda daily, generating USD.3.9Million (Kes400.00Million) in revenue. Mombasa-based rent-to-own boda boda (motorcycle taxi) lender Watu Credit, has received US$1.5Million (Kes.156.Million) in debt finance via lending marketplace Lendable Inc., who secured the off-balance ...
Singapore-based Youtap has launched Youtap Cloud, a payment processing platform delivered as a cloud service for mobile money and payment providers in developing markets. Youtap Cloud enables real-time transaction processing for contactless mobile money and bank wallet payments. It supports QR code payments, as well as NFC technology, including ...
Mobile financial services firm Branch has confirmed it raised KSh200m through a commercial paper arranged by Kenya's Nabo Capital as TechMoran had earlier reported. The firm has officially launched in Nigeria too, after reaching 450,000 customers in Kenya who have collectively taken out 2m loans totalling KSh 4 billion. “Branch ...
Safaricom CEO Bob Collymorehas been named CEO of the Year by Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment and communications group. Mr. Collymore was yesterday awarded with the title of Ai SRI 30 CEO of the Year in the awards at the just concluded 11th Africa investor (Ai) Institutional Investment ...
When wireless charging was invented, leading technology companies that planned to use it came together to form a standard that would guide them forward. Among the companies included heavyweight like Samsung and LG; together with other players, they formed Qi (pronounced as ‘chee’ like in cheese), a Wireless Power Consortium. ...
Huawei Mate 10 has many names including Maimang 6 and some rumors called it the G10. However, Huawei launched the phone using the Maimang 6 name in China, but some reports said it would be called’ Mate 10 Lite’ in the international market. This phone marks the first device from ...
Safaricom has said it will introduce intelligent solutions to its Customer Care organization in a move to strengthen service delivery to its customers. “We are in the process of deploying intelligent solutions that will enable us to better understand our customer needs across all divisions of the company. The planned ...
After ruling its plans last week of bringing the OPPO F3 FCB Limited Edition, OPPO Camera Phone has announced an exclusive Barcelona official gift pack to every FCB F3 sold starting from 1st September 2017, the official selling date of the device. The selfie focused OPPO F3, aka Selfie Expert, ...
Access Technology Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Tencent Holdings Ltd., Altimeter Capital, Vy Capital and Amazon Inc.’s Alexa Fund have invested $300 million into Essential Products Inc., the smartphone maker founded by Andy Rubin, the creator of Android. Access led the round with $100m and will join the company’s board of directors. ...
According to a new GSMA study, more than half a billion people across Sub-Saharan Africa will be subscribed to a mobile service by the end of a decade. The report titled ‘The Mobile Economy: Sub-Saharan Africa 2017’, was published at the GSMA Mobile 360 – Africa event. It forecasts that ...
Kenya's mobile money integrator for merchants Tangazoletu has marked ten years of its existence with an ambitious target to bring ten million unbanked Kenyans in the informal sector through financial technology solutions. According to Chief Executive Officer of Tangazoletu Mr.Chris Gathingu the firm will collaborate with more than 70 partners ...
Huawei Mobile Kenya has launched the P10 Lite in the Kenyan market at a recommended market price of ksh 34,999 across the country. The new dual Sim P10 Lite comes with a high performance Kirin 658 Chipset; 4GB RAM and EMUI 5.0 processor and has a 12MP rear and 8MP ...
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than half of all mobile money deployments worldwide according to GSMA's latest ‘State of Mobile Money in Sub-Saharan Africa’ presentation. The report indicates that the number of live mobile money schemes in the region had reached 140 across 39 countries at the end of last ...
OPPO Mobile Kenya will in mid-July unveil a limited black edition of its OPPO F3 dual selfie camera phone. The new version which will be available at authorized resellers comes with a pre-installed screen protector, jelly case, fingerprint reader, a 16 megapixel front camera and a two years official warranty ...
Following the launch of its OPPO F3 smartphone in the local market, OPPO Kenya has signed up online and off-line partnerships to scale up its operations in Kenya to meet the growing smartphone demand in the Kenyan market. It's first ever move to boost its market share in Kenya was ...
Most conversations about cybersecurity are centered around data breaches and the potential damage that stolen data can do to a company. When hackers steal personal information about your customers or employees, the costs are certainly high, especially when you consider the fines and penalties associated with the breach, lost customers, ...
Apple's iOS, which is two years older than Android, does not come with a pre-installed File Manager App. Users have to look for their own means of accessing their files saved in...wait, the OS does not have memory card support either. Things are about to change however, according to a ...
India’s smartphone market grew 12% year on year in the first quarter of 2017, with over 27 million units shipped, but no new names entered the top five. With Samsung treading water in first place, significant sequential growth saw Xiaomi and Vivo take second and third place respectively. Lenovo moved ...
Nigeria's Gadget Clinic, an on-demand gadget repair service is looking to raise $50,000 - $100,000 to scale the business, acquire more manpower, setup standard repair hubs, own its logistics. as the firm seeks to expand its capacity to handle more customers across the country. Now with close to 100 customers ...
TECNO Mobile, has launched the much anticipated Camon CX across 41 markets in Africa, Middle East and Latin America, including in Kenya and Nigeria. Introduced in 2015, the Camon series has sold over 5 million handsets globally giving the firm over 25 per cent of market share in Sub-Saharan African ...
Qualcomm has introduced the Qualcomm® 205 Mobile Platform, designed to bring 4G LTE connectivity and 4G services to entry-level feature phones. The Qualcomm 205 Mobile Platformwill allow feature phones to access Wi-Fi like their smartphone counterparts. “Qualcomm Technologies is committed to the migration of users and networks from 2G, 2.5G, ...
From the Moto Z unboxing article we just posted the other day, we mentioned Moto Mods, they are unique hardware units that you magnetically attach to your Moto device to add extra functionality. The Moto Mod we tested was the JBL Sound Boost. It left us with a very positive experience due to ...
The One Plus has a been a very interesting company, it is among the youngest in the mobile manufacturing field but also among the fastest rising. What makes the company special is the flagship-rivaling hardware it produces and sells at very affordable prices. It has been making headlines for all ...
Lenovo introduced a new device portfolio at Mobile World Congress 2017 that spans nearly all mobile form factors for the ultimate in choice with: the detachable Miix 320, blending affordability with connectivity on-the-go – two convertibles, mobile powerhouses Yoga 720 and 520 – four tablets, the versatile Tab 4 family ...
Every time you look at smartphone’s specifications, you find that processors are labelled either dual core, quad core, octa core or deca core. These names indicate the number of cores available. However, more cores does not necessarily translate to more power, there are a lot more considerations. We will go ...
