Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Beginning of July, subscribers to their surprise were greeted with an error message on their devices stating that Econet had shut down Kwese Play and Roku came out stating that Econet had shut down the Kwesé Play service and were no longer working together. However, Econet had a different version…

Cassava Fintech International (CFI) is a leading Fintech company in Africa and a subsidiary of the Econet Group and has announced the launch of Africa’s first integrated Social Payments platform branded Sasai which combines instant messaging, social media and mobile payments into one App. For those who know WeChat will understand…

Gallery Go is a new app from Google designed to let people with unreliable internet connections organize and edit their photos. Like Google’s regular Photos app it uses machine learning to organize your photos. You can also use it to auto-enhance your pictures and apply filters. The difference is that Gallery…

Robinhood Markets Inc. which offers free app-based trading has closed a new round of funding valuing the company at $7.6 billion. That’s up from its latest $5.6 billion valuation in 2018. The company raised $323 million in the most recent deal. RELATED READING: Robinhood Founders, Baiju Bhatt and Vlad Tenev, become…

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in Elon Musk’s OpenAI to build artificial intelligence that can tackle more complex tasks, the companies announced Monday. Through the partnership, the companies will build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies and Microsoft will become OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider, according to the announcements. The companies said the technology they…

On Saturday Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s largest telecoms operator (MNO), services were disrupted just before 10AM for long hours following a power cut that affected its network operations centre (NOC) in Harare and today Econet released a press statement which you’ll find below. RELATED READING: POWER BLACKOUT AFFECTS ECONET SERVICES CAUSING…

Due to what’s currently happening in Zimbabwe in regards to massive daily power cuts that last up to 15 hours a day, it has suddenly become a topic of interest on the impact of electricity to our daily lives and how it can cripple a country’s economy even further. Yet…

Zimbabwe’s economy could grind to a halt if power outages gripping the nation persist as production plunges, exports decline, companies lay off staff and disposable incomes shrink, after it emerged that manufacturing companies are going for up to 18 hours without electricity. RELATED READING: ZIMBABWE MOBILE NETWORKS COULD SWITCH OFF BASE…

‘Our generators failed to kick-in following a ZESA power outage, resulting in an automatic system shutdown’

Robocalls and spam calls are really an epidemic. The thing is, you are able to block more of the robocalls and spam calls that drive you insane but the bad part of it that is you may have to spend a little bit of money to do it thoroughly. According…

inDriver an American online ride-hailing service has begun recruiting local drivers for its service ahead of launch in Zimbabwe towards month end. The firm will join a growing market for ride-hailing services in Zimbabwe which includes operators such as Cassava Smartech’s Vaya, Toda and Hwindi. The inDriver application allows drivers to apply for registration…

The Founder and Executive Chairman of the Econet Group, Strive Masiyiwa, has revealed that his company wanted to solve the nation’s electricity problems in 2007 but was prevented from doing so by corrupt officials at ZESA Holdings LTD.  According to Strive Masiyiwa, ZESA, and some top government officials, frustrated the project…

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Zimbabwe is experiencing its worst power cuts in three years, lasting up to 15 hours daily – Stage 2.

Mobile threat researchers at Avast has identified seven stalker apps all likely designed by a Russian developer and Google has moved swiftly to remove those apps available on Play Store as apps for children’s safety or finding stolen phones but were being used to stalk employees, romantic partners or kids. The apps were…

Bernard Arnault has a net worth of $107.6 billion, Bloomberg reports. Forbes, meanwhile, pegs his net worth slightly lower at $104.2 million.

Today Intel announced its deep partnership with SAP, a broader multi-year partnership focused on optimizing Intel’s platform innovations for the datacenter and as part of the arrangement, SAP will optimize its business software to run on Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory. SAP will optimize its bundle…

Visa Inc. the world’s biggest payments network announced that it has invested in Indonesia’s Go-Jek as part of the ride-hailing company’s ongoing Series F fundraising round but surprisingly Visa did not mention how much money it was investing in Go-Jek or how big a stake it would acquire. This investment…

The 12-gigabit (GB) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM will give smartphones the power they need for 5G and AI applications.

Expect them to show up in iOS 13 and Android Q.