Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Kwese Sports has partnered with 234Bet, an online betting company for an advertising deal for the Premier League broadcast. The deal, which was signed on Monday, will be aired on Kwesé Free Sports and its sub-license stations such as NTA and AIT. Kwesé Free Sports is Africa’s largest free-to-air channel…

It’s a gigantic amount for a relatively short amount of gameplay.

Business process outsourcing, or BPO, is a business practice in which one organization hires another company to perform a task (i.e., process) that the hiring organization requires for its own business to successfully operate. And today the Econet Group unveiled the OmniContact  – a standalone ‘business process outsourcing’ (BPO) unit…

In an average year, Apple holds three to four events. There’s usually a spring event in March, the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, a September event that’s focused on iPhone and Apple Watch, and sometimes an October event if there are iPads or Macs expected in the fall. In this…

To President Donald Trump, it was an awkward slip of the tongue. To Apple chief executive Tim Cook, it was an opportunity to poke some sly fun at a president who has often clashed with the tech industry. A day after Mr Trump mistakenly referred to Mr Cook at a…

Google Chrome users need to update the desktop version of their Web browser as soon as possible, its lead security engineer has warned. Justin Schuh gave the warning after the Internet giant announced it had uncovered a bug — known as a zero-day exploit — in its software which is actively…

You’ll be able to stream everything from ‘Snow White’ to ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’.

MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter says that the group’s South African operation has ‘turned a corner’ with a strong set of results. On Thursday (7 March), MTN reported a 10.7% jump in service revenue for the year ended December 2018, with revenue up 6% to R134.56 billion. Operating profit climbed…

MTN Group has announced it will launch an instant messaging (IM) service akin to China’s WeChat and Facebook’s WhatsApp as it seeks to expand revenue from digital services and mobile money. With the IM platform, which will form part of the group’s mobile money initiatives, MTN wants to build what group…

Zoaib Hoosen has resigned as MD of Microsoft’s South African subsidiary and will be replaced by Lillian Barnard, the software giant recently announced. Hoosen, who has been at the helm of Microsoft South Africa for nearly five years, replaced Mteto Nyati in the role. Nyati, who joined MTN South Africa as…

EcoCash, Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe’s mobile money Fintech business, has partnered with Cassava Fintech South Africa to provide an enhanced cross-border money transfer service from South Africa to Zimbabwe. Announcing the launch of the service, Cassava Fintech International Group CEO Darlington Mandivenga said he was confident the service would do very…

The Founder and Executive Chairman of the Econet Group, Strive Masiyiwa, has bought back Mascom Botswana from MTN for US$300 million, 14 years after losing control of the telecoms giant. Mascom was Strive Masiyiwa’s first mobile company before he obtained a licence to launch Econet Wireless after a protracted court battle…

Rwanda has embraced technology and is now preparing its young population for the future by launching a coding academy. The school’s motto “born to code” encourages young people interested in coding to pursue it as a career. The academy focusses on cyber security and software programming, and 30 girls and…

It comes after Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO, filed legal proceedings against Canadian authorities alleging they arrested, detained and searched her in violation of her constitutional rights.

Liquid Telecom South Africa has secured its first customer, MTN, to offer 4G roaming to millions of South Africans. Liquid says the deal includes LTE services to fuel the growing demand for high-speed mobile broadband. The wholesale roaming service will be made available across Liquid Telecom’s network nationwide. “With MTN as a…

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer has filed a lawsuit against Canadian border and police authorities for “violating her constitutional rights” while arresting her at a Vancouver airport at the request of the US late last year. Her lawyers Howard Mickelson and Allan Doolittle said in a statement on Sunday that Meng, the…

Germany’s largest luxury carmakers are merging their car and ride-hailing services, including ReachNow and Car2go, in a bit to strengthen their position against Uber, Didi and Lyft.

MultiChoice set the stock market ablaze, leaping 16 percent from its debut of R95 a share on the JSE as the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) raised concerns that the listing had gone ahead despite complaints before the Complaints and Compliance Committee (CCC). Icasa, the communications regulator, said…

So the big day for MultiChoice Group (sharecode MCG) arrived as the owner of M-net, SuperSport and showmax has finally been unbundled from Naspers. So all the speculation about where the share price will trade at can finally come to an end. Background on Naspers and MultiChoice Below a bit…

TikTok, the popular video-sharing app formerly known as Musical.ly, has agreed to a record $5.7m (£4.2m) fine with the US Federal Trade Commission after being accused of illegally collecting personal information from children under 13. The app, which is owned by the Chinese giant Bytedance, a private startup with a…