Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

According to a forecast report from JPMorgan, Apple is expected to release four 5G-capable iPhones in 2020 and this coincidently comes after Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon said at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit this week that Apple and Qualcomm are working to launch a new 5G iPhone as “fast as possible.” RELATED…

Thursday Uber said that it had officially launched services in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, where it is hosting a series of training sessions to bring local drivers on board after 12 months of talks with regulators. Abidjan has become the 16th African city to host Uber, marking the ride-hailing firm’s…

Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon said at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit this week that Apple and Qualcomm are working to launch a new 5G iPhone as fast as possible. RELATED READING: QUALCOMM’S SIMULATED 5G TESTS PROVE A WHOPPING 20X INCREASE IN DOWNLOAD SPEEDS OVER 4G #MWC18 The main goal of Qualcomm’s renewed…

On Friday Twitter said that its ban on political ads will exempt “caused-based” messages on topics related to social or environmental issues. RELATED READING: TWITTER BANS POLITICAL ADVERTISING ON ITS PLATFORM The San Francisco-based messaging platform unveiled details of its move to bar all paid political messages, starting November 22, while…

To some, TikTok the short-form video app seems like a digital fad. To others, it’s the next wave of social media. Whatever it is, it currently provides a direct line to the younger generation. While the app continues to grow its base in the US — last February it reported 26.5 million…

If you may ask, we may say Facebook is trying really hard to tell people that it owns Instagram and WhatsApp and why do we say so? Because earlier this month, the company introduced new branding for all of its apps. On Wednesday, it introduced Facebook Pay, a service that’ll…

Instagram recently announced that it was expanding the test globally. Previously, the test was only limited to seven countries. RELATED READING: INSTAGRAM EXPANDS TESTS TO HIDE NUMBER OF LIKES TO 6 MORE COUNTRIES Instagram began hiding Likes in April in Canada and then brought the test to Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil,…

Google has become the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services after Apple’s credit card launch and Facebook’s proposed digital currency Libra.  RELATED READING: FACEBOOK MOVING FORWARD WITH LIBRA CRYPTOCURRENCY DESPITE STRING OF WITHDRAWALS RELATED READING: APPLE CARD LAUNCHES TODAY FOR ITS US CUSTOMERS The…

Nut Pro 3, the once reputedly smartphone by TikTok’s owner ByteDance is now available, hence, making it ByteDance’s first smartphone. It’s a continuation of work by the Chinese phone maker Smartisan (which partially explains the name), and it’s being released under the Smartisan brand. Smartisan is back with this new phone after nearly a year…

The Distribution Power Africa (DPA) a market leader in innovative solar energy solutions has been mandated to build a 1.2-megawatt power plant for Africa Data Centres at its facility in Nairobi, Kenya. RELATED READING: DISTRIBUTED POWER AFRICA PARTNERS EDF TO DEPLOY HYBRID ENERGY IN AFRICA Africa Data Centres, is a…

Phew! DStv subscribers can finally breathe a sigh of relief. – following news that three popular DSTV channels were going to be scrapped off, it has just been announced that Multichoice will no longer be getting rid of the History and Lifetime Channels. Yipeeee! Earlier last month, it was announced…

Google has started rolling out incognito mode for Google Maps to Android devices. First reported by Android Police, the rollout was announced on Google support page. The feature is similar to the incognito mode available on Google Chrome that allows users to go anonymous while the mode is switched on.…

Sony announced as part of its second-quarter earnings report that it sold 2.8 million PlayStation 4 (PS4) consoles between July and September, hence making it the second best-selling home console of all time Since the company hit exactly 100 million sales three months ago, the total is now at 102.8 million, meaning the…

ZULU King Goodwill Zwelithini is set to launch his own mobile network, Bayede Mobile on 1 November in South Africa. What’s Bayede Mobile? King Zwelithini, a Zulu monarch, has approved the use of the term “Bayede” for various business ventures, without leveraging from it. However, this is all about to change.…

Ministers have recently issued threats against Econet’s mobile money service, EcoCash, whose agents are accused of charging desperate Zimbabweans looking for cash a massive premium of up to 60 percent. RELATED READING: GOVERNMENT, ECOCASH WARNS UNSCRUPULOUS AGENTS “EcoCash manager may face arrest if her business continues to inconvenience the public by…

On Monday the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) stopped operators of mobile-money services, the dominant way in which money is moved in Zimbabwe, from doing cash in and cash out transactions. Therefore, following yesterday’s ban on cash-in and cash-out transactions, EcoCash has filed an urgent application at the High Court…

Following a series of warnings to unscrupulous mobile money agents, the Zimbabwean Central Bank (RBZ) has now with immediate effect banned all cash-in, cash-out and cash-back transactions by all mobile payment system providers and merchants. The central bank also banned the use of the cash-back service when customers pay with…

A week after Apple kicked off its annual fall product launch, today Huawei Mate 30 Pro has been officially announced, and it’s arrived alongside the Huawei Mate 30 without pre-installed Google-licensed apps as the Chinese tech giant faces fallout from a U.S. blacklist earlier this year. Related Story: Huawei launches the Mate 30…

Through invites Google sent to media today it officially announced that its annual hardware event is set for October 15th in New York City. The heavily teased Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are expected, along with other refreshes for the Made by Google 2019 lineup. Related story: Google reveals…

It certainly didn’t take long for Netflix to feel the heat of the recently announced Apple’s original TV service, Apple TV+, with its shares falling by more than 3% on Tuesday. Apple announced that its subscription TV service will launch in November and will be free for a year for customers…