Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

One thing for certain is that the new partnership forms part of Liquid Telecom’s African Innovation initiative which is helping African innovation hubs to develop emerging technologies, such as cloud. Liquid Telecom Uganda part of the leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has today announced a partnership with tech-incubation hub;…

Barclays Bank, one of the few remaining banks that was still accepting DStv payments in Zimbabwe has recently announced that with effect from the 1st of December 2017 (a day from now) will no longer be accepting DStv payments. Barclays Bank Zimbabwe suspension on DStv Payments is due to limited foreign…

YouTube’s PR crisis over child safety on the internet-video site has become a business issue — with several large advertisers pulling ads after the trend of sex predators commenting on kid videos came to light. YouTube is taking extensive action after word broke that pedophiles were targeting videos of children…

It never rains but pours for YouTube. It is once again facing an advertiser fallout from major brands and could prove to be really costful. YouTube is promising a crackdown, but it’s too late for some brands. Cadbury chocolates maker Mondelez , Lidl, Mars, HP and other consumer goods marketers have pulled…

Wagon Shopping is a Kenyan startup that has huge ambitions for African expansion after launching an on demand e-commerce website that allows people to shop for supermarket products from the comfort of their home/office, and they deliver in under 2 hours. Launched in February, Wagon Shopping is looking to take the hassle out…

Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp (31), who created the blogging site more than 10 years ago at the age of 20, has resigned from the company. The many corporate reshuffles may be why Karp has finally stepped down, although it’s unclear exactly why he’s leaving the company or what…

After receiving so much criticism on not doing enough in preventing suicide or further harm/killings on the social site, Facebook is finally expanding its limited test run for suicide- and -self-harm reporting tools to the masses. Therefore, to get better at detection Facebook will begin implementing pattern recognition for posts and Live videos to…

The extent of Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Elections that we all witnessed Donald Trump surprisingly winning against a powerful Hillary Clinton is the subject of multiple investigations and a U.S. intelligence community assessment that the country waged overt and covert campaigns in an attempt to interfere with…

Recognising the diversity of its audience, Kwesé TV has recently added the contemporary music and lifestyle channel Hip TV to its African television platform. Hip TV is a Nigerian basic cable television channel owned by Ayo Animashaun. The channel is the sole channel with broadcasting rights to The Headies. Headquartered in Ikeja, Lagos State, Hip TV’s features are centred majorly on…

Just a few days after ZBC-TV started showing on Kwesé TV channel 230 ZBC-TV is now available on the Kwesé TV App meaning that you have access to the latest news on-the-go. Otherwise apart from news, especially after the latest developments, ZTV content still lacks and what’s available really sucks. Apart from…

According to a reliable source Apple is believed to have started working on the product that ultimately became the HomePod for many years dating back to 2012, but was blindsided by Amazon’s release of the Echo in 2014. The company also decided to focus on sound quality over smart assistant features for the…

Watching a friend’s Instagram Live video and feeling the urge to participate instead? Now you can, as long as the host agrees. This new feature is available via version 24 of the Instagram app for iOS or Android. Just a couple of weeks ago, Instagram made it easy to invite a friend to view…

Apple’s HomePod was originally set to be released in December. Priced at $349, and the HomePod is slated to take on higher-end sound systems like Sonos, as well as smart assistants like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. With the December holidays coming soon hopefully you weren’t counting on giving…

Last month, the Head of Kwesé Zimbabwe, Dorothy Zimuto adviced that ZBC-ZTV1 was going to be available on Kwesé TV. And indeed, ZBC-TV has now finally come on board on Kwesé TV as it is a requirement of Zimbabwean law that every licensed service carries the national broadcaster. ZBC-ZTV1 is now available on…

This is indeed some good news for Mozilla Firefox fanatics after more than a decade of coping up with either the internet browser running really slow or stop running altogether. Even those who have used Mozilla Firefox before can too attest to that. When scrolling or typing in text fields,…

Africa has been the fastest-growing mobile market in the world during the past five years. With mobile technology and mobile phones reshaping the future of the African continent, millions of Africans rely on they mobiles phone daily not only for communication but to run their day-to-day lives. It is easy to…

Ericsson is a global leader in delivering ICT solutions. In fact, 40% of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over Ericsson networks. We have customers in over 180 countries and comprehensive industry solutions ranging from Cloud services and Mobile Broadband to Network Design and Optimization. Over the past 140 years, Ericsson has been at the forefront…

Could this be a cause for concern for apple users? Awaiting Apple’s feedback after a Chinese security firm known as Bkav thwarted Apple’s iPhone X face ID with a mask, therefore, is it necessarily a practical security concern? When Apple introduced Face ID security alongside the iPhone X, it boasted that even Hollywood-quality…

Earning more than $25.3 billion in sales in just one day is a whole lot of money. Could you try to imagine how many companies combined needed to reach that kind of amount? If you needed evidence that internet shopping still has room to grow, you just got it. Chinese…

Guy Verhofstadt sparked a social media frenzy after he suggested Vladimir Putin’s agents in Russia could have meddled with Britain’s Brexit referendum. EU members then backed an investigation, claiming it was “beyond laughable” that Russia had any influence on the vote. Russia’s social media disruption campaign was far-reaching. Russia’s attempt to influence Western…