Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Vaya Africa, a Mauritius-registered Transportation as a Service (TaaS) company, has launched an electric vehicle service in Zimbabwe as part of the company’s rollout strategy across Africa. “We are excited to launch the ‘VAYA Electric’ vehicle today as we start our journey of deploying innovative ways of harnessing clean, renewable…

Google is giving employees who work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic $1,000 allowances to cover equipment costs, CEO Sundar Pichai announced. Yet the CEO still believes working in offices has value and is not willing to abandon the company “campuses.” Beginning July 6, “Assuming external conditions allow, we’ll start to…

Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has today announced that its Check Point SecureAcademy™ education initiative has partnered with Strathmore University in Kenya to provide a comprehensive cyber security curriculum to students, bridging the cyber security skills gap and also creating a safer…

SYSPRO Chief Product Officer, Paulo de Matos Manufacturers and distributors are operating in intensely pressured times. Stats SA reported that manufacturing output contracted for the ninth consecutive month in February of 2020 with the full extent of the damage caused by Covid-19 and the nationwide lockdown still unknown. There is…

After 100 years in business, Hertz filed for bankruptcy on Friday, proving to be yet another casualty during Covid-19.  The old-time entity now joins the likes of J.C. Penney, J. Crew, Neiman Marcus, Gold’s Gym, Pier 1 and the McClatchy newspaper chain—companies that have all sought bankruptcy protection in recent…

Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Box is another tech company is joining the likes of Google and Shopify in making it officially okay for its workforce to work remotely until at least 2021; Square and Twitter, meanwhile, both went ahead and just made it permanent policy. RELATED READING: TWITTER CEO JACK DORSEY…

Want to get that sweet blue tick next to your name on Twitter? Plenty of people do — but in recent times it hasn’t been possible, due to Twitter’s verification programme being put on hold. To rub salt in the wound on Wednesday evening, the official Twitter Comms account put out…

Africa Data Centres, part of the Liquid Telecom Group, has completed the acquisition of a state-of-the-art Tier IV data centre in Johannesburg from Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank. The acquisition, which has been unconditionally approved by the South African Competition Commission, said the group in an update, would prove highly…

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday Facebook Inc will permanently embrace remote work even after coronavirus lockdowns ease,accelerating the tech sector’s geographic diversification away from its home in Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg said the world’s largest social network would start “aggressively opening up remote hiring” in July, expecting that about…

Netflix has announced that it will start automatically cancelling accounts that have been inactive for long periods of time even if you’re still paying for it. Users who have left their account dormant for a year or long will receive a notification from the company, asking if they want to continue…

The company announced yesterday that Twitter will make it easier to see quote tweets in a handy list just like it did on iOS on May 12th, now that new functionality is available on Twitter for Android and for the web, If you tap or click on the “Retweets” word on a…

According to Check Point Software, 27% of companies worldwide have suffered attacks on their mobile devices, showing a clear upward trend of sixth generation attacks We are witnessing a plague of mobile adware, one of the most common forms of cyber-threats designed to collect personal information from a user’s device.…

Microsoft Solitaire is a popular card game and it seems like the company wants to set a world record on its 30th anniversary. Today, the company announced that the game hosts 35 million players each month from more than 200 countries. In order to commemorate the occasion, it wants to…

Shopify Inc. will allow its 5,000 employees to work from home indefinitely, even after the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic fade and cities lift shutdowns. Shopify’s Tobi Lutke, Chief Executive Officer said that the company plans to keep its offices largely closed for the rest of the year as it re-designs…

Let’s face it, we’re all looking for easier way to do things. Short-cuts that help us get our work done faster and with less effort. And hackers are no different. To launch an attack against any software or system, hackers and threat actors will first look for an existing vulnerability or weakness…

May 21st marks the beginning of Culture Week in Zimbabwe, and Google is joining in the celebration with a homepage Doodle game that lets you play Zimbabwe’s national instrument, the mbira. Today’s Google Doodle game tells a cute story of a young girl watching an mbira being played with great interest, before…

Robots are now part of Rwanda’s fight against COVID-19 and will help minimize risk of infections among health care workers. These Anti-epidemic robots can screen 50 to 150 people per minute among other vital tasks Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Tackling the Rise & Spread of COVID-19…

Microsoft’s annual developer conference has officially kicked off, the first yearly developer conference in the consumer tech world we’ve experienced online. Microsoft usually hosts Build in Seattle to around 5,000 developers who pay around $2,000 to attend, but the pandemic meant Build went fully online this year, and was free…

YouTube has announced to roll out a new feature called bedtime reminders to help late-night surfers to sleep on time meaning that even YouTube wants you to stop watching sometimes. YouTube’s bedtime reminder feature joins the platform’s existing “take a break” reminders, and both are among a broader set of YouTube wellness…

According to a new report from Bloomberg published on Wednesday Facebook will begin reopening its offices worldwide on July 6th with stringent safety measures in place. The company plans to also mandate face masks at work The reopening plan is part of a multistep process the social network has in place to begin…