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At a press event in San Francisco, Twitter executives recently made a statement about its ongoing work on adding a new way for users to manage their interests. The new feature will see to it that users are able to manage handles and hashtags in... Read More

After months of debacle between Globacom and MTN Nigeria about interconnection debt between the two parties that recently resulted in a unidirectional disconnection by MTN. They have both come to some sort of understanding with partial payment of the debt being paid. Before now, Glo... Read More

Huawei Marine has announced a partnership with PCCW Global to construct the first submarine cable between Mauritius and Rodrigues Island, in a further boost for African internet connectivity.  This will be Huawei’s 12th submarine cable system deployed in the African region to meet increasing demand... Read More

Kenyans have Monday morning woken up to chilling news that Safaricom's CEO Bob Collymore has succumbed to cancer. In a statement to the public from Safaricom PLC Board Chairman, Nicholas Ng'ang'a says, “It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing away of Robert... Read More

A tech hub is a community that fosters innovation for technology startup companies. It can be a specific area, or simply a specific building or set of buildings where small startups can rent space alongside each other to share facilities and ideas. In Uganda, HiveColab... Read More

The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) on Monday received two new mobile registration trucks that are to be used to boost its registration capacity. The trucks that were procured under World Bank supported by Uganda Reproductive Maternal and Child Health Services Improvement Project (URMCHP)... Read More

Microsoft has had presence in Africa for close to 30 years and has seen witnessed growth in the continent, including tremendous innovation from the people to increased internet connectivity and everything in between. To further enable and empower our people, Microsoft today launched its first... Read More

Spammers on the internet are becoming many with the advancements in technology. One of the tactics they use on Twitter is rapidly following accounts in bulk with a hope that they will follow back. Twitter, in an effort to remove spammers from its platform, has... Read More

Uganda’s behemoth online shopping mall, Jumia Uganda has launched the 2019 Jumia Mobile week. This is the forth annual mobile week ever since the maiden Jumia mobile week in 2016. Jumia mobile week is famous for big price cuts on mobile handsets and is a... Read More