Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Taking you back to last week’s events that transpired on Thursday, Econet shareholders approved a resolution to allow the company’s directors to buyback the company’s shares in the next 12 months. This isn’t newsworthy in itself. Econet has always had this resolution at most of its Annual General Meetings (AGMs).…

Liquid Telecom, a subsidiary of Econet Wireless Global, is set to connect the entire continent through a land-based communication link between Cape Town and Cairo, the South African and Egyptian cities respectively. It has been building a fibre network across southern Africa covering Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, South Africa,…

Samsung once again teases world’s first foldable smartphone with flexible display.

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing basic goods and services and income generation opportunities to the underserved. Goodwell Investments has launched a new EUR 20 million (around $23 million) fund for investments in the inclusive economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The…

Safaricom Chairman Nicholas Ng’ang’a said that the telco’s dominance in the market is as a result of carefully executed market strategy, innovation and continued investments.

Hello Tractor connects tractor owners to farmers through an Internet-of-Things (IoT) digital solution that bridges the gap between traditional farming and more technologically advanced approaches.

In this guide we’ll take you through the current set of iOS 12 beta problems. The latest iOS 12 beta has a long list of issues and every upcoming beta will have its own collection of bugs and problems.

Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itself.

Kilimall, Uganda’s largest online shopping mall, launched in 2016 with a mission to become No.1 E-commerce platform in Africa has shut down operations in Uganda according to Dennis Nyunyuzi who is familiar with the matters. “Kilimall is not operating in Uganda locally [anymore],” he said. Dennis, who was partnering with Jay Cho – a…

Google recently released its exciting Android Pie update with tons of new features. If you’re wondering “will my Huawei phone get Android 9 Pie?” we’re here to help. We’ll provide information about what to expect, what’s new, betas, and when the update might arrive. Including Honor Android 9 updates. Earlier this year…

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe recently launched a smarter, better and faster way to pay, EcoCash scan and pay service. Customers are now able to make payments in just seconds by simply scanning, and paying with their smartphones every time they see the Masterpass QR code in stores countrywide. EcoCash’s new scan-and-go mobile shopping capability…

The Android Pie update is exciting, but like all major updates, it’s plagued with a variety of problems.

Econet Wireless recently launched the EcoFarmer Club, which offers farmers access to a bundle of services that include agricultural commodity prices, valuable farming tips, relevant local weather information and a mobile trading platform which links farmers to buyers. Speaking at the launch of the EcoFarmer Club in Harare yesterday, Econet chief…

Toyota Motor Corp sets to invest $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said on Monday, a bid by both to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business. Toyota, one of the world’s largest carmakers, and Uber, the leading…

Vodacom says it is now providing a fully commercial, standards-based 5G service in Lesotho.

MTN’s latest innovation, MTN mPulse has been launched to enable teens between the ages of 9-15 learn and gain useful skills while having fun.

Just after the recent introduction of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, there is yet another exciting smartphone that is coming soon to take on the Galaxy Note 9, Pixel 3 XL and the new iPhone. We’re talking about the OnePlus 6T. In this post, we’ll go over all the latest OnePlus 6T release details,…

The High Court has suspended NetOne CEO Lazarus Muchenje’s application for the court to rescind the mobile network operator’s board meeting which passed a resolution to renew the contracts of nine executives, ruling it as not urgent. Muchenje had approached the court to declare null and void a special board…

MTN is the biggest shareholder in Jumia with a 40% stake and the company currently values the internet company at $1 Billion.

This will see Liquid Telecom set up “new base stations” that will be connected to their fibre network to “deliver guaranteed reliability and speed.