Social Media

About 40% of the world population uses social media and spend a considerable amount of time on it daily. Undoubtedly, online activities keep increasing making social media a very powerful tool. Clearly, top social apps record numerous downloads from Google Play Store and App Store.... Read More

Social media is very beneficial if used well. However, you do not always have time to keep checking and posting on your social media handles. This is where automation comes in handy and IFTTT is one tool that can be helpful. What is IFTTT? It... Read More

Since it's creation in April 2011, SnapChat has been fast growing in terms of users. It is a multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc. One of its very unique features is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before... Read More

With a few hours to swearing in of the Ugandan Presidential elect, Social Media (Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp) has been blocked. Ugandan Telecoms posted on their Social Media channels defending their position as having been directed UCC the governing body and also in line the Uganda... Read More

WhatsApp has without question curved a name for itself as a prerequisite for modern-day communication to the point that people can't remember a time without it. But as WhatsApp was getting all the limelight and racking up an army of loyal users, two Russian brothers... Read More

That social media has become the main driving force behind most elections and anti-government campaigns comes as no surprise. The dissemination of information whether by the government or by the opposition is a do-or-die for the various parties concerned as public opinion hinges strongly on... Read More

It begins with a page view, a like, a retweet. Then, boom, an avalanche. Plot twist: Or perhaps a telephone call, an email, even a newspaper headline. No, a screaming newspaper headline, a catchy lede and then a full page story. There will certainly be... Read More

The shares of the world’s No. 1 social network touched a record high of $76.74 on Thursday after earnings and revenues easily topped analysts’ forecasts, boosting its market value to nearly $194 billion.  Facebook, which was founded in 2004 is now bigger than such decades... Read More

I have heard it being predicted, speculated and forecasted that Newspapers  in Uganda and the wider African continent will face an eminent death by a thousand cuts just about anytime from now. The reasoning has been simple -- the onslaught of digital media. In the... Read More