Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

The news is likely to be another headache for Huawei, which has become enshrouded in controversy following the arrest of CFO Meng Wanzhou.

Telecommunications guru Strive Masiyiwa has responded to a jibe by exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo that he is a Bondnote billionaire, a reference to the local currency that is used in Zimbabwe.

Liquid Telecom announced that it has appointed Mohamed Abdel Bassit its new Regional Chief Executive for the Middle East and West Africa (MEWA), effective January 1, 2019. Based in Cairo, Bassit will oversee the group’s expansion further into MEWA following the recent news that it is investing US$400m in the Egyptian market and has completed the first fibre network to stretch all the way…

Analysts have projected data and internet to drive telecoms giant Econet’s business post unbundling as full-year revenue for the financial year 2019 is expected to hit $678 million mark. This will represent a 20 percent jump ahead of $578 recorded in FY18. After becoming a fully converged telecommunications, media and…

Roku shares jump 25% due to impressive streaming numbers.

How gamer Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins went from working at a fast food joint to making almost $1 million a month playing Fortnite.

Goodbye 20018! The year 2018 may be remembered for its many launches, from well-funded augmented reality (AR) startups to future-gazing big data platforms. But for every new entrant to the technology industry, there was probably at least one company or product that went in the opposite direction. As we approached the end of…

Huawei on New Year’s Day wished followers a “Happy #2019” in a tweet marked sent “via Twitter for iPhone”.

All the foldables, rollables and 4K-ables we anticipate seeing at the big tech show. The 2019 International CES will begin on Tuesday, 8 January and end on Friday, 11 January.

The flagship to end all flagships, then? We’ll have to wait and see.

Galaxy M family will initially see three phones – the Galaxy M10, M20 and M30

Samsung is expected to launch their foldable smartphone come 2019. We’ve also heard reports that other companies such as Huawei are interested in such devices as well. In fact it wasn’t too long ago that it was rumored that Apple might be considering tossing their hat into the ring with a foldable phone of their…

It had been widely speculated that Samsung or Huawei would be the first company to launch a folding phone.

As the new year-round the corner we are getting numerous updates about the launch of new smartphones by the mobile manufactures. We could expect that the next several new smartphones and devices of various categories to be available in 2019 and that too includes the Huawei Y7 2019. Huawei, which has…

Earlier this week, Vivo launched the Y93 budget Android smartphone in India. Currently, the smartphone is available in a single memory configuration with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. However, it now appears the company may soon launch another storage variant of the Y93 in the country. Vivo Y93 3GB…

LG is all set to launch the successor to LG G7 ThinQ which didn’t manage to grab more eyeballs with LG G8 later next year. As per the source, the new LG G8 will launch globally by end of March 2019. It will feature 3D camera which has now become…

Huawei’s budget phone is new and improved for 2019

Hyundai Motor Corp has developed a biometric system for cars that will help the drivers to unlock and start engine with a light touch.

MTN Uganda has also partnered with MTN Rwanda and Safaricom to facilitate regional cross-network mobile money transfers.

Indian operator Bharti Airtel has decided to sell a further 32% stake in Bharti Infratel, valued at close to Rs 15,500 crore, to create a war chest to bolster its countrywide 4G networks and counter Reliance Jio Infocomm. Separately, the Sunil Mittal-led telco on Thursday also appointed a panel to explore various other…