Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Disney’s Lion King this weekend earned another $38.2 million (-49%) to bring its cume up to $431 million topping Captain Marvel. That gives it a bigger (sans inflation) total than the $422 million gross (counting the 2011 3-D reissue) of original The Lion King. At a glance, we’re probably looking at…

Well, it didn’t take very long for Disney’s remake of The Lion King to become one of the highest-grossing movies of the entire year. Just over two weeks after its international release, Jon Favreau’s film has already crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, making it Disney’s fourth movie to do so…

After recently shutting down its Kwese Play service, diversified telecommunications giant, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, has now recently discontinued its media offering Kwese TV service and apologized to customers. READ: KWESE PLAY SERVICE OFFICIALLY SHUTS DOWN, CUSTOMERS TO RECEIVE REFUNDS IN AIRTIME Despite being embraced by thousands of Zimbabweans since its launch…

Today Apple Inc. announced that it is suspending its global internal program for “grading” a portion of user Siri commands after some consumers raised concerns about the program following a Guardian report revealing the practice. Apple employs people that listen to less than 1% of Siri commands in order to improve…

Salesforce has wrapped up its $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software, creating a powerful force in the lucrative enterprise software world. READ: SALESFORCE IS BUYING DATA VISUALIZATION COMPANY TABLEAU FOR $15.7B IN ALL-STOCK DEAL The deal shakes up the Seattle tech scene and instantly makes Salesforce a major player for talent in the region.…

Following Ninja’s news, Mixer pops to top of the App Store’s free charts

Due to massive power outages in Zimbabwe, the country’s largest telecommunication company, Econet Wireless says it requires more than US$60 million to upgrade its equipment and convert all its sites to solar power. The move to embrace solar energy comes on the back of crippling power cuts, which have dampened…

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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