Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Bob Collymore Safaricom Chief Executive Officer plans to step down in August for health reasons, but the government’s insistence he should be succeeded by a Kenyan has delayed announcing a replacement, two company sources said. Mr Collymore has helped to build Safaricom into East Africa’s most profitable company, thanks to…

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The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL release date is still several months away, but news and rumors are appearing more each day. These will be Google’s latest and greatest phones running on Android Q, and that’s exciting. Here, we’ve gathered all the latest Pixel 4 news, leaks, and info into one place for potential buyers.…

Apple’s iOS 12.2 update is out of beta and the milestone upgrade is now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users around the world. iOS 12.2 is much bigger than the previous version of iOS 12 (iOS 12.1.4) and comes with a long list of changes including bug fixes, patches, enhancements,…

The first iteration of Apple’s rumored iOS 13 update is getting closer and today we want to take you through everything we know, and think we know, about iOS 12’s successor. Apple is still hard at work improving iOS 12. The company recently released a massive iOS 12.2 milestone upgrade and the…

As part of its growing acquisition of content from Africa, Netflix has announced its first original African animated series – Mama K’s Team 4. The series is produced by award-winning South Africa based studio, Triggerfish Animation, and London based kids and family entertainment specialist, CAKE. Mama K’s Team 4 tells a story…

Luckin, China’s upstart coffee brand, has an audacious plan: convince China to switch from tea to coffee, overtaking Starbucks while they’re at it. It’s an expensive proposition, so they’re relying on an IPO — and a Silicon Valley mindset. “Technology is the core of our business,” Luckin Coffee, the young…

MTN Nigeria Communications has finally changed its legal status from being a Private Limited Company (Ltd) to Public Limited Company (PLC) and this recent conversion to a public company from a private company yesterday represents the first step towards a listing Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). On its own, though, the…

Uber drivers across the world are set to receive up to $40,000 (R572,000) as a “driver appreciation reward” ahead of the ride-hailing giant’s initial public offering. The company announced in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing published on Friday that it would pay around $300 million (R4.4 billion) to its more than 1.1…

Early investors and employees of Uber Technologies Inc. are planning to sell about $1.3 billion worth of stock in the ride-hailing firm’s initial public offering. Benchmark is the biggest seller, offering 5.7 million of its shares, according to a regulatory filing Friday. That would fetch about $270 million at the…

Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $9 billion in an initial public offering that could give the ride-hailing giant a market valuation of as much as $84 billion. Uber had previously considered targeting a valuation of $100 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, and some bankers had…

Huawei’s controversial status in North America and Europe stems from a lot of different factors. At the heart of most of them, however, is the hardware maker’s alleged ties to the Chinese government. The notion of government control has been enough to cause something approaching an outright ban on its…

Facebook said on Wednesday that it expected to be fined up to $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations. The penalty would be a record by the agency against a technology company and a sign that the United States was willing to punish big tech companies. The social network…

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Rami Malek has been confirmed to star in the forthcoming James Bond film as the latest villain to challenge Daniel Craig’s 007. After months of speculation, a livestream from the official 007 Twitter account revealed the returning cast along with some new faces, including Malek. The Oscar-winning actor was not at Ian Fleming’s residence in Jamaica, where the…

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According to Indian lawmakers they said that TikTok was encouraging the spread of explicit content and “cultural degradation” among youth, and then they successfully banned the short video app — but only for a week or so, because the TikTok ban has now been lifted. That’s according to reports from Reuters, TechCrunch, CNN Business, and others. Technically, TikTok’s existing…

Strong earnings push Microsoft toward a new milestone

Twitter  co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey sat down with President Trump for his most high-profile tête-à-tête yet. Dorsey’s 30-minute meeting with Trump happened behind closed doors. Motherboard reported the meeting just before Trump tweeted about it. Unless either of the men decides to share more about what they discussed we won’t know how things went…

Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa plans to list part of his Botswana telecoms operator Mascom by October this year, he said on Tuesday, in what he expects to be one of the biggest flotations on the Gaborone bourse. Masiyiwa, through his holding company Econet, is finalising a $300 million deal with…