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Andela has today announced the appointment of Wambui Kinya as its Chief Strategy Officer. With over eighteen years’ experience in digital, mobile marketing and technology consulting, Kinya will spearhead Andela’s partnership strategy in Africa and ramp up the company’s efforts to recruit technical leadership across the continent. This follows Andela’s $24 million Series B funding, announced last month, led by Mark Zuckerberg’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with participation from GV, formerly Google Ventures. “As Andela launches into the third quarter with incredible momentum, we are thrilled to welcome Wambui to the team,” says Christina Sass, co-founder and COO of Andela. “She…

Microsoft is currently working on a new intelligent camera app for iOS devices. This new app will be called Microsoft Pix and when you use it to take photos, it automatically picks the best version of the photo and enhances it to ensure your shots are the best they can be. When you tap the shutter button to take the photo, the app goes through a number of shots that were taken right before the shutter was tapped and those that were taken after you tapped on the shutter to determine the best image. This allows you to capture the…

The next device under the Galaxy Note series is currently in production. This device, the Galaxy Note 7, will take over from the Galaxy Note 5 which was unveiled last year. The Galaxy Note 7 will be launched on August 2 at an event in New York so you should expect to see more leaks and rumors about it as we get close to that date. So far, we have seen and heard pretty much everything about this phone and the most recent one suggested that Samsung has plans to make it slimmer compared to the Note 5. We even…

Apple is about to launch its next smartphone, the iPhone 7 so you should expect to see rumors and leaks about it from now till its officially launched. The latest leak comes inform of a video that gives us a look at what the phone is all about. We have seen photos of the phone but this is the first video so it’s most definitely not photoshopped. The video was initially posted on Chinese social site, Weibo, and was later uploaded to YouTube by TechTastic. The 6 second video is not in the best quality so you should not expect…

We have seen many smartphones from Tecno this year but the one I have been waiting for is the flagship, the Phantom 6, that will be launched very soon. I used the Phantom 5 last year and was impressed so am excited to see how Tecno tops it. As for what the company is planning with the Phantom 6, am getting information that there will be two variants, the standard Phantom 6 and the Phantom 6 Plus. Am still yet to get the screen size of the standard Phantom 6 but the Phantom 6 Plus will have a bigger 5.95…

LG is about to expand its smartphone lineup this September with the release of a new device. The company is reportedly working on a successor to the LG V10 (pictured above) that was unveiled in October last year. This smartphone has been on the market for almost 9 months but here in Kenya the company started marketing it a few weeks ago. Back to the successor to the V10, Korean website, ET News, says that it will be called the LG V20 or V11. The publication is reporting that the phone will be launched in September which will be about a…

Microsoft has been having a difficult time getting manufacturers to use its Windows Phone platform. This means that the number of devices on the platform has reduced and so consumers don’t have a bigger selection to choose from. This has meant that those who do not like the Windows devices on the market have no option but to go with either Android and iOS. With fewer people using Windows on their smartphones, developers are not encouraged to create apps for the platform as it just doesn’t make any business sense. This then affects those already using the platform as they…

Windows Phone (Mobile) has had a very bumpy ride the last couple of years. Its market share has been dropping as people prefer to go with either Android or iOS. As people ditch the platform, developers have also been pulling their apps off the platform as it just does not make sense to keep making the apps if people are not using the platform. Rovio, which is considered to be one of the best mobile gaming companies, has announced that it will no longer release its games to the Windows Phone platform. The company is known for making the very…

Samsung has confirmed that it will be releasing the Galaxy Note 7 on August 2. Even with this confirmation, the company is still now revealing to us what specs the phablet will come with and we are left to deal with the leaks and rumors that we can never be sure are 100% correct. We have heard a ton of rumors about the Galaxy Note 7 and the most recent one suggested that it will come with a newer display technology that will make it possible for Samsung to make the Note 7 thinner than the Note 5. To add…

A few weeks ago, Xiaomi officially launched the global version of MIUI 8 as it unveiled the Mi Max in India. When launching MIUI 8, Xiaomi said that the beta version will be available to users on July 11 before it releases the stable version sometime in August. July 11 came and passed and Xiaomi did not disappoint as it released the global beta ROM of MIUI 8. This release will not be available for all Xiaomi customers as the company says that it will be rolling it out to select devices before the other get it at a later…