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Twitter is launching a marketing campaign to address the question – What is Twitter and what is it used for? According to the Jack Dorsey-led company, it undertook a research recently to understand more deeply the perceptions of Twitter around the world. It found out the following: ninety percent of people globally…

Hillary Clinton launched a game-style mobile app, Hillary 2016, for her presidential campaign. This app helps volunteers get engaged in the campaign activities from their smartphone. The app was built by a team of techonlogy veterans from DreamWorks Animation, Charity: Water and Livestream. With Hillary 2016, you can: Complete daily challenges to help…

The Chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, has expressed interest in investing in the electronic payment and store value system, “digital currency” in Ethiopia. This assertion was made after seeing the increasing number of users in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. He referred Gates said that the foundation has not done…

DraperDarkFlow, Toro Orero, and Tim Draper have made investments in 8 SpeedUPAfrica startups. The eight Startups that have received  investments are as follows: VugaPay: A faster and safer way to send and receive mobile money payments online without sharing your financial information. Tress: A passionate global community of black women sharing and discovering…

As usual, the Comic Con is the place to release the latest TV and movie trailers and the 2016 edition is no exception. Here are some of the new trailers: The Films Suicide Squad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Xb9BhfVjY Justice League https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gglkYMGRYlE

In March 2017, the producers of Godzilla transport audiences to the birthplace of one of the most powerful monster myths of all in KONG: SKULL ISLAND, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures. When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery…

The first Wonder Woman movie trailer premiered at the Comic-Con on Saturday during the Warner Bros. panel. The trailer starts with the Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) bending over and admiring a man, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) washed up a beaches of Themyscira. She leaves with him and is involved in…

Nigeria’s largest online mall, Konga.com, will lay off some of its employees, as part of its business development strategy whereby it reviews staff strength every 6months. Konga has been doing this consistently over the last 2 years and usually let go of staff that still go on and do great…

No it is not a joke. It is true. A constitutional court in Zimbabwe delivered a landmark ruling ordering every Zimbabwean citizen to pay the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) licence fees irrespective of the service provider one may select to use. This means that any citizen with a gadget capable of receiving radio…

Naspers’ online streaming company, Showmax, announced that 10 million TV shows and movies have been watched on the platform since launch last year. Showmax launched in August 2015 trying to beat Netflix’s proposed entry into the South African market. According to Chief Product Officer Barron Ernst, “We knew we had a good…

From 19 August to 3 September the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is back in Johannesburg to explore and celebrate technology and creativity by Africans for Africa. The 2016 festival has cast its central theme as ‘Afro Tech Riot’ as community, femininity, notions of the spiritual, and exploring African knowledge…

The finalists were picked from a record 723 technology startups from 27 African countries that applied to launch at the event. Out of the 30, South Africa is represented by 11 startups, Nigeria 6, Kenya 5 and Ghana 3. For the first time Morocco will have a representative in the…

A new Zimbabwean Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), Viva Mobile, has been given approval to launch by the local telecoms regulator, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ). This will be the first MVNO in Zimbabwe. According to the founder and CEO, Dzidzai Chidumba, he had anticipated a go-live date…

When Twitter first introduced account verification in 2009, it was seen as status symbol. Denoted by a blue badge icon, verified accounts on Twitter allowed people to identify the authentic accounts of key individuals and organizations. An account may be verified if it is determined to be of public interest.…

July last year, Bharti Airtel entered an agreement with French based mobile operator, Orange to sell its operations in four countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and Sierra Leone. Today, Orange  announced that, together with its Senegal-based partner Sonatel, it has completed the acquisition of 100% of the mobile operator Airtel in Sierra…

A Brazilian judge has ordered the nationwide blackout of the messaging service, WhatsApp.  This will be the third time in eight months. Though the other two times were temporary blackouts in December and May, this one is indefinite. It is expected to be in force until the company complies with a previously issued request…

Nintendo market capitalisation has soared to 4.5 trillion yen ($42.5 billion) in just seven sessions since the mobile game Pokemon Go was launched in the United States. The game has been released in 35 countries, triggering massive buying in Nintendo shares. Interestingly the game is not yet available in Japan, though reports state…

WeFarm has won the second prize in the Chivas Regal “The Venture” competition for social enterprise. WeFarm was awarded the second largest contribution from the fund, receiving $200,000. The Venture, luxury whisky Chivas Regal’s search to find and support the most innovative startups from across the world, rewarded five social enterprises the…

Through the advent of Messenger and bots, messaging platforms have rapidly increased their impact in reaching users with life-changing content. Leading this technological evolution in low and middle income countries, the Praekelt Foundation will launch a new chatbot for Messenger integrated into the South African Nation Department of Health’s MomConnect, at…

According to the founder and CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, it took five years to reach its billionth trip, and just six months to reach the next billion. 1 billion rides in six months! This means the online transportation network company was providing an average of 5.5 million rides a day,…