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East Africa's premier mobile startups conference, Pivot East, is here. The mobile startup pitching competition that started in 2011 officially kicks off on Tuesday, 25th to Wednesday 26th July at Kampala Sheraton hotel. This year's major objective is “To facilitate discovery of the next wave... Read More

Social media giant, Facebook, on Wednesday announced that it will start supporting clickable hashtags (#) from its users. This comes 7 years after Twitter started supporting them. Similar to other social networks like Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook will allow appearance of... Read More

The internet, since 5th June has been awash with conspiracy theories of close collaboration between NSA and major technology companies in Silicon Valley. These nefarious ties' allegations publicly leaked by a former NSA IT guy, Edward Snowden  in unprecedented series, have been denied by the... Read More

Sure, for every story that makes headlines, there are driving forces that make it so. It's an interplay of various factors such as; relevance of content; distribution channel; community among others. The post industrial economy is organized around knowledge for the purpose of social control... Read More

What is Search Engine Optimization and why is it important for my business, you may ask. A Search Engine is a web-based tool that enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web through search and currently the most widely used Search Engine is... Read More

Today MTN Uganda launched its 7th Annual Edition of the campaign dubbed, 21 Days of Y’ello Care. 21 Days of Y’ello Care is an annual 21 day long MTN staff volunteerism initiative in which employees across MTN’s international footprint take time off to physically get... Read More

This morning, my Gmail account almost got compromised with just a single disguised email message i received in my inbox. The email subject was "Google Alerts" and it was coming from "[email protected]". The contents of the email read; Your account was recently accessed from another... Read More

Ashish J. Thakkar the CEO and Founder of Mara Foundation officially launched  Mara Online which is an online and mobile platforms that allow users to communicate, interact and collaborate with each other. It was launched last weekend in California where Thakkar was the keynote speaker for TiEcon, one of... Read More

Jolla, the Finnish-based company set to launch its new Sailfish mobile operating system later this year, has unveiled its first device. The device comes with ample 4.5” Estrade display, a Dual core processor and 4G connectivity. More so, the device has 16GB internal memory with a slot for a microSD... Read More