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  • November 30, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0
    Wearable device sales to hit $42 billion in 2019 says Gartner
    Gartner, Inc. forecasts that worldwide shipments of wearable devices will reach 225...
    featured MOBILE STARTUPS TECH 
  • November 29, 2018 Anthony D. Curtis 0
    The gift that keeps on taking, Bitcoin sinks again… below $4,000
    The blood letting is not stopping soon as Bitcoin plunges once again...
    BUSINESS featured FINANCE 
  • November 27, 2018 Anthony D. Curtis 0
    Nearly half of young users have deleted Facebook, Pew survey shows
    Pew surveyed more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users in May and June,...
    APPS featured SOCIAL MEDIA 
  • November 19, 2018 olivia Craig 0
    Hackers Are Snatching High-Profile Instagram Accounts
    In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and...
    APPS featured SOCIAL MEDIA 
  • November 6, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0
    Econet’s Kwesé is shutting down its operations to refocus on video-on-demand
    Pay-TV Company Kwesé is shutting down its operations barely two years after...
    BUSINESS featured 
Facebook Transparency Report reveals fewer user data requests by African Governments

Facebook Transparency Report reveals fewer user...

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Wearable device sales to hit $42 billion in 2019 says Gartner

Wearable device sales to hit $42...

November 30, 2018 0
The gift that keeps on taking, Bitcoin sinks again… below $4,000

The gift that keeps on taking,...

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Nearly half of young users have deleted Facebook, Pew survey shows

Nearly half of young users have...

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  • December 7, 2018 Editor 0

    Facebook Transparency Report reveals fewer user data requests by African Governments

    According to the recently released Facebook Transparency Report for the six months from January to June 2018, demands by African governments for information on Facebook users remain low compared to other countries, Globally over the six-month period there were 103 815 requests and in 74% of those requests...
    APPS Internet SOCIAL MEDIA 
  • November 30, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Wearable device sales to hit $42 billion in 2019 says Gartner

    Gartner, Inc. forecasts that worldwide shipments of wearable...
    featured MOBILE STARTUPS TECH 
  • banking security
    November 29, 2018 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    The gift that keeps on taking, Bitcoin sinks again… below $4,000

    The blood letting is not stopping soon as...
    BUSINESS featured FINANCE 
  • November 27, 2018 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Nearly half of young users have deleted Facebook, Pew survey shows

    Pew surveyed more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users...
    APPS featured SOCIAL MEDIA 

Business

  • banking security
    November 29, 2018 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    The gift that keeps on taking, Bitcoin sinks again… below $4,000

    The blood letting is not stopping soon as Bitcoin plunges once again over the weekend and is now trading for less than $4,000 for the first time since September 2017. The cryptocurrency fell to as low as $US3,519.94($4,874) on the Bitstamp platform, after earlier falling to a 14-month...
    BUSINESS featured FINANCE 
  • November 23, 2018 Editor 0

    Disruptive technology emerging markets in Africa could leverage to transform utilities

    The entire installed generation capacity of Africa’s 48 Sub-Saharan countries is just 68 gigawatts, no more...
    BUSINESS Q&A TECH 
  • artificial intelligence
    November 12, 2018 Meredith Bradshaw 0

    Founding DG of Kenya’s Vision 2030 secretariat Mugo Kibati, takes over at Telkom Kenya

    Telecommunications company Telkom Kenya has appointed Mugo Kibati as its new chief executive officer, taking over...
    BUSINESS TECH 
  • November 6, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Econet’s Kwesé is shutting down its operations to refocus on video-on-demand

    Pay-TV Company Kwesé is shutting down its operations barely two years after launch as Econet, the...
    BUSINESS featured 

Interviews

  • November 23, 2018 Editor 0

    Disruptive technology emerging markets in Africa could leverage to transform utilities

    The entire installed generation capacity of Africa’s 48 Sub-Saharan countries is just 68 gigawatts, no more...
    BUSINESS Q&A TECH 
  • October 11, 2018 Editor 0

    Distribution Is The Real Disruption, Mobile phones game-changing agri-tech in Africa

    While emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence can capture our imagination, some of the most...
    Q&A TECH 
  • June 14, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Sky.Garden: Revolutionizing Kenya’s E-Commerce Sector

    Upon noticing that the economic sector in Kenya only caters for the top tier in the...
    BUSINESS Q&A 
  • April 6, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    JuuBike: Streamlining the Kenyan Bodaboda Transport Sector

    The Boda Boda Safety Association of Kenya recently launched a new app called JuuBike that will...
    APPS Q&A TECH 
  • March 19, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Panacea:Transforming the Education Sector in Africa

    After recently launching its Android App, Panacea, a Nigerian e-library startup, is geared towards revolutionizing the...
    Q&A 
  • Leti Arts
    March 2, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Q&A: Leti Arts bringing authentic Africa to the world through games & digital comics

    Caption: (inset) Leti Arts Co-founders, Eyram Tawia (Ghana) and Wesley Kirinya (Kenya) Africa is at the...
    Q&A STARTUPS TECH 

Cyber Security

  • Facebook
    October 9, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    17 Canadian federal depts. and agencies failed basic tests for credit card data security

    The Canada Revenue Agency, the RCMP, Statistics Canada and more than a dozen other federal departments and agencies have failed an international test of the security of their credit card payment systems. Altogether, half of the 34 federal institutions authorized by the banking system to accept credit-card payments...
    BUSINESS Cybersecurity FINANCE 
  • WhatsApp launches end-to-end encryption on messages for all its users
    October 8, 2018 Editor 0

    Rogue Move? Facebook to start flooding WhatsApp with Ads in 2019

    WhatsApp has been free, but soon users can...
    APPS Cybersecurity Internet MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA 
  • September 3, 2018 Editor 0

    Apple cracking down on apps store, requires all to define a privacy policy

    Apple is taking an unprecedented step on its...
    APPS Cybersecurity MOBILE 
  • May 24, 2018 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    South Africa’s Second biggest database leak exposes almost 1 million personal records

    Barely a year after South Africa’s largest data leak was...
    Cybersecurity featured Internet 

Start-Ups

  • November 30, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Wearable device sales to hit $42 billion in 2019 says Gartner

    Gartner, Inc. forecasts that worldwide shipments of wearable devices will reach 225 million in 2019, an increase of 25.8 percent from 2018. End-user spending on wearable devices is forecast to reach $42 billion in 2019. Of that, $16.2 billion will be on smartwatches. “At the moment, the smartwatch...
    featured MOBILE STARTUPS TECH 
  • October 16, 2018 Editor 0

    Tech and sports titans pay tribute to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen who has passed at 65

    Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft Corp. with fellow billionaire Bill Gates and used the fortune he...
    BUSINESS STARTUPS 
  • Banking Crisis
    September 21, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Sources Intimate that Rocket Internet is preparing a Jumia IPO

    Reuters sources have intimated that German start-up investor Rocket Internet (RKET.DE) is preparing its African online...
    BUSINESS STARTUPS TECH 
  • August 14, 2018 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Bitcoin Sinks Below $6,000 as Almost Every Cryptocurrency face downfall

    Bitcoin dropped below $6,000 and dozens of smaller digital tokens tumbled as this month’s selloff in...
    BUSINESS STARTUPS TECH 

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  • December 7, 2018 Editor 0

    Facebook Transparency Report reveals fewer user data requests by African Governments

    According to the recently released Facebook Transparency Report...
    APPS Internet SOCIAL MEDIA 
  • November 30, 2018 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Wearable device sales to hit $42 billion in 2019 says Gartner

    Gartner, Inc. forecasts that worldwide shipments of wearable...
    featured MOBILE STARTUPS TECH 
  • banking security
    November 29, 2018 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    The gift that keeps on taking, Bitcoin sinks again… below $4,000

    The blood letting is not stopping soon as...
    BUSINESS featured FINANCE 

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