Vodacom is Shutting down M-Pesa in South Africa After 6 Years
May 9, 2016
M-Pesa is one of the most successful product Safaricom has ever had. Many other telcos have tried to adapt M-Pesa into their countries but so far the success has not been replicated. In South Africa,…
Instagram is Testing New Profile Features Targeting Businesses
May 6, 2016
Instagram has been working on a number of changes on its photo/video sharing platform as it tries to attract new users and advertisers. The company has already implemented some changes and has promised more will…
Opera Updates Its Browser to Version 37 Which Comes with A Native Ad-Blocker
May 5, 2016
Opera has always tried new things with its browser and was among the first browser developers to include a data saving feature. This helped the browser gain popularity in most developing countries (Kenya included) and…
Twitter Gets a New ‘Connect’ Tab to Help You Discover People You Might Be Interested In
May 4, 2016
Twitter has had a tough time the last year or so. Even though the company is making some money from ads, it still is having a difficult time attracting new users to its platform compared…
Wiley Fox: Bringing Exclusivity to the Kenyan Smartphone Market
April 29, 2016
A smartphone is worth more than the sum value of its parts and no one understands this better than Wiley Fox. The Kenyan smartphone market has a good number of players. Most of these brands…
YouTube Updates Its Mobile App to Give It a Clean and Simple Look
April 28, 2016
Google has just updated its mobile apps to give them a modern, simple and clean format. The company announced this two days ago through its official blog post saying that this new design will help…
Ericsson IoT Accelerator enables industries to put data to work
April 28, 2016
Today at Hannover Messe, the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology, Ericsson announced the IoT Accelerator. IoT Accelerator combines horizontal, feature-rich IoT platforms with Ericsson’s services and a marketplace where customers from sectors such…
Fuelling SME growth in Kenya: The competitive advantage of the cloud
April 27, 2016
With the growth in mobile devices, decreasing bandwidth costs and more international vendors and local service providers offering a variety of new services, Africa is cloud computing’s next great frontier. In 2013, 48% of SMEs in…
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Instagram is Currently Testing a Revamped Black and White UI
April 27, 2016
Earlier this year, Instagram said that it will be implementing a number of changes to its platform throughout this year. The company did not say what these changes are but we know that the changes…