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Africa Internet Group (AIG), Africa's leading e-commerce platform has officially rebranded as Jumia across the continent. Jumia has further consolidated its various companies under the one unifying brand. Companies such as HelloFood, Lamudi, Jovado, Kaymu, Vendito and EverJobs will now transact business under the Jumia moniker.... Read More

Telegram continues to dazzle its 100 million odd users with a string of updates which are stretching the limits to what a chat app can do. The added functionality means that once you have Telegram open and get to chatting, it won't be really necessary... Read More

As if Facebook Messenger's 900 million users were not enough, Facebook now wants to replace your boring default Android SMS messaging app by integrating it with its own. Facebook Messenger users for Android now won't have to leave the app to receive and reply traditional... Read More

Factory Reset Protection (FRP) is device protection security feature introduced on Android smartphones running Lollipop (5.1) onward aimed at preventing someone from just wiping your data during an unsanctioned factory reset and getting away with it. In theory, this feature is intended to render a lost... Read More

Android Instant Apps is a nifty little trick Google showcased at the annual Google IO 2016 event that just made non-committal app hunting a whole lot more interesting. Basically what it does is give you a jaribu -a taste- of the app without having you... Read More

Rumors about the imminent merger between Android and Chrome OS have been circulating for the better part of the decade without any outward sign from Google that something was actually in the works to the chagrin of Android and Chrome OS lovers worldwide. Now it... Read More

There's an age-old saying that "If you want to hide something from a black person, put it in a book." However we beg to differ. Black people are not to be taken in such a bigoted stereotypical fashion as we are not a homogeneous collective... Read More

Press Release: Fenix International, the largest provider of off-grid home solar in Uganda, announces that it has signed over 60,000 leases for its product, ReadyPay Power, since January 2014. The leases, totaling $11 million in value, have brought an estimated 300,000 Ugandans power for the... Read More

Let’s face it. Payment gateways are fragmented. They are confusing. And they are broken. It’s usually something like this: when you want to make an online payment you either have to use PayPal or one of the several debit cards. But when you want to... Read More