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French operator Orange has mandated Lazard to find a buyer for its mobile telecoms business in Uganda according to TMT Finance.  Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. With more than 131 million customers, the Orange brand... Read More

As a way of setting up a National coordinated approach for handling Information Security incidents, a National Computer Emergency Response Team / Coordination Centre (National CERT/CC) responsible for receiving, reviewing, and responding to computer security incident reports and activity for both the public and private... Read More

Kampala, Feb20, 2014. Centenary bank has joined the Interswitch East Africa network in Uganda adding yet another innovation in enhancing their customer service. Interswitch East Africa operates a network that links different banks to enable their customers share Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and Points of... Read More

m:lab East Africa is among the seven companies that won the Rockefeller Foundation and the Tony Elumelu Foundation‘s Africa Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF). The other six companies include Investisseurs & Partenaires (Senegal) Renew LLC (Ethiopia), the Policy and Economic Research Council (Tanzania) Doreo Partners (Nigeria), GIMPA Centre for... Read More

Ericsson has been in operation in Africa for about 117 years. Besides the offices it has distributed allover the continent, it doesn't have a research or innovations hub staged in situ. Now, at the recent Swedish Ugandan ICT conference: Dorothy Okello, the commnications officer at the... Read More

If you asked around about a broadcast, internet and mobile expert in Africa, Russell Southwood would be the first reference. He is also the CEO of renown research firm Balancing Act Africa. The TechPost crew (David and Daniel) caught up with him about the status... Read More

Samsung has officially announced that they will hold an unpacked event at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress on the 24 of February ditching the earlier suspected date of April 2014. They did not specifically mention that they will release their most anticipated Galaxy S5 flagship... Read More

Blackberry has maintained that they will not be making a BBM version for Windows and the main reason is that the iOS and Android versions were made based on demand and as such they aren't discriminating but just allowing market dynamics of demand and supply... Read More

Not new to the phone business, HP has announced plans to release two new 6 and 7 Inch tablets that they are calling the “Slate 6” and “Slate 7” Voice Tab. The Phones are reportedly powered by Android 4.2 Jellybean with a quad core processor,... Read More