Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Here is some good news, Theo Bertram, Senior Manager, Public Policy EMEA has sent a call for applications from undergraduates, graduates and law students interested in internet and technology policy to participate in the Google Policy Fellowship. Fellows will work with host organisations who deal with issues such as broadband and access policy, content regulation, copyright…

Founded a couple of years ago, Zeepay is now a leader in the mobile money service sphere with ambitious plans of going beyond the SIM-enabled transaction currently in operation. The Ghanaian fintech company, Zeepay, which provides integrated mobile payments services, took the top award as the Startup of the Year at the 2017…

China has openly outlined plans to become a world-leader in artificial intelligence by 2025, laying down a challenge to U.S. dominance in the sector amid heightened international tensions over military applications of the technology. China released a national AI development plan late on Thursday, aiming to grow the country’s core…

The world’s second largest mobile operator, Vodafone, today reported better-than-expected 2.2 percent revenue growth in its first quarter, reflecting a robust performance in Italy and Spain and an acceleration in demand in Turkey. The British company said the increase in organic service revenue, which beat analysts’ consensus forecast for a…

Elevate Youth: Designed to help Youths rise to the Next Level and maximize on their potential. Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access…

Yesterday, Tuesday, the African Development Bank (AfDB) signed an agreement with Islamic Development Bank to partner on USD$2 billion in project financing for renewable energy, health, food security and other key initiatives in Africa. Each partner will contribute $1 billion over the next three years to support economic transformation on…

This comes as some good news from Emirates to its customers, which flies daily from Lusaka and Harare to Dubai, has expanded its popular free inflight WiFi service with generous rates for all flyers.Effective immediately, all Emirates Skywards Platinum and Gold members can enjoy free unlimited WiFi during their Emirates…

This newly established partnership between Xpress Money and TerraPay will have a major impact on businesses in Africa. This partnership enabled international money transfers to mobile wallets in Africa allowing customers to send money form their country to any mobile number or bank account in certain countries in Africa. Thanks…

As consumer behavior continues to evolve rapidly, with the most notable trend being a surge in global smartphone adoption. On the other hand, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, continues leveraging all the technology at their fingertips to enable customers to use the technology they use daily in their personal lives by recently…

Nigerian ed-tech startup dot Learn emerged victorious, won US$75,000 in prize money after being named first runner-up of the recent Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge. The challenge called on students and recent graduates to present technological solutions or services that could help benefit the economy, society or environment. Fifteen finalists…

This is certainly an achievement for Internet Solutions that has recently deployed the company’s first point of presence (PoP) in Madagascar; and has commissioned a second PoP in Zambia. Internet Solutions now has 68 PoPs in 16 African markets, with operating offices in South Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria,…

South African startup forgood launched a cause-based online pop-up store offering a curated selection of handcrafted products to purchase. We really can’t dispute that South Africa and Nigeria are taking a giant leap in promoting startups, hence resulting in these two countries’ economies booming. In January 2015 on the launch of…

Nigerian startup LegitCar has come up with a great initiative in a bid to reduce car thefts and protecting people from buying stolen cars, by successfully launching a database of all missing cars in Nigeria, allowing car buyers to ensure the car that they are about to purchase is not…

South African startup ThisIsMe claims it has set a new African record by completing a FICA process – which used to take anywhere between two days and two weeks – within three minutes. Launched in 2014, ThisIsMe allows a user to prove their identity and that they are still alive in order…

An online marketplace for products made or manufactured by Africans, TradPeek aims to celebrate and promote Africans’ skills and  innovations, changing the trajectory of Africa being a consuming continent and instead promoting exports. Nigerian startup TradPeek has an ambitious goal – to be to Africa what Alibaba is to China. “The company…

EMGuidance is a platform that focuses only on South Africa currently, but plans to spread further throughout the continent of Africa and releasing further to 11 extra countries. The platform – which is accessible via Android and iOS apps – has seen over 5,000 medical professionals register and use the platform…

This is some good news, as far as innovation in healthcare takes on a positive step. The latest healthcare technologies greatly improves the life expectancy of people and a new mobile app hopes to make mental health services available to all Kenyans, with access to psychiatric services and a support…

Microsoft will undergo a reorganization that will impact its sales and marketing teams. Beginning of this week, company executives even told employees The re-shuffling will impact those under Microsoft chief marketing officer Chris Capossela, executive vice presidents Judson Althoff and Jean-Philippe Courtois, all of whom sent messages to their teams describing…

Samsung subsidiary Samsung Display has its sights set on the growing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display market. The Korean conglomerate will build the world’s largest OLED manufacturing plant and boost the capacity to manufacture the screen panels by 30%. The company hopes that by building a larger facility, it will get…

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest producer of memory chips, has announced that it is pumping 20.4 trillion won ($18 billion) of new investment into growing its semiconductor manufacturing facilities in South Korea. This is a coincident with Samsung’s directive – the future of Samsung is self-driving cars. Hence, the need to…