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Netflix and Google are arguably two of the biggest tech companies in the world because —obviously— they have the best products, available at the lowest prices in their class. However, recent price hikes from these companies for some of their products shows that they want more... Read More

Online privacy directly correlates with your actual privacy and needs to be taken seriously. One big defense mechanism for online privacy is a strong password. Unfortunately, people get too lazy at times and just create very weak passwords. See also, An Idiot's guide to creating... Read More

On Thursday 13th December 2018, MTN Uganda announced the MTN APP Challenge 2018. This edition of the MTN App Challenge focus on building innovations for digital payments. All participating innovators are required to build applications that facilitate digital payments. MTN Uganda opened up its Mobile... Read More

On July 1st, the government introduced two new taxes, the OTT tax and the mobile money tax. Ever since the introduction of mobile money tax, transactions across mobile money services declined. The government tried to refine the tax by removing tax on deposits and reducing... Read More

SWARM is a yearly summit started by Uganda’s first incubation hub, the Hive Colab in corporation with numerous ICT and startup backers. The maiden Swarm Summit happened in December 2016 at the Hive Colab. Swarm 18 will take place at The Square place in Industrial... Read More

In March of 2017, the Ugandan Government took over Uganda Telecom’s operations after the Libyan government, the majority shareholders, pulled out of the ailing telecom. UTL has been associated with slow business and financial troubles that had camped almost permanently at Uganda’s oldest telecom company. However,... Read More

In commemoration of World Tourism Day 2018, Jumia is at it again in the expansion of its Flights services, this time in partnership with Amadeus, a leading travel technology company. The partnership is the base for a new flights marketplace on Jumia, that will be... Read More

PRESS RELEASE: Jumia Food, the food delivery branch of Jumia Uganda, has appointed Timothy Mugume as the new Country Manager for Uganda. Mr Mugume has been the Jumia Travel Country Manager, and he brings to the Food department a great expertise and understanding of e-commerce amassed... Read More

Microsoft, the giant company behind the popular Microsoft Office Suite of apps and the Windows Operating System is reportedly in the process of acquiring Github. GitHub is a vast code repository that has become popular with developers and companies hosting their projects, documentation, and code.... Read More