George Aine The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives in collaboration with UNBS has embarked on the process to develop a unique...
Telecommunication companies offering mobile money services have announced that effective July 1, 2018, they will start charging 1% in form of Excise...
After telecommunications companies revealed on Friday afternoon how Ugandans will be paying for social media taxes, a reflection of government’s commitment to...
By Collins Mwai German multinational Siemens has mapped out their investment targets in the country and are currently negotiating partnerships with potential...
George Aine It is not easy to preserve milk fresh overnight for the early morning supply in the market minus storing it...
By Tom Merritt /TechRepublic Blockchain is best known for its association with Bitcoin, but it has many uses for business. Its ability to prevent...
Telecommunications companies have outed a joint statement detailing how social media taxes will be collected. When President Yoweri Museveni in late March of...
When the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Mr. Zhao Changpeng first came to Uganda in April of this year...
Jolly Mary Kabirizi is a farmer and scientist at Kyakuwa Farm Clinic. At the farm, she uses a pelleting machine to produce...
The competition among boda-boda hailing services is set to become more aggressive after UberBoda which had been seen as reluctant in cutting...
The Jane Goodall Institute on March 17, 2016, through The GFW, or, Global Forest Watch, launched an online mapping platform and Forest...
By The New Times The wait is over as Volkswagen (VW) officially kicks off its much-awaited operations in Rwanda. The official launch...
On the second day of March this year amidst increased reports of sexual harassment at Makerere University, the university’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Barnabas...
Businessman Patrick Bitature has cautioned those interested in investing in technology to understand that it’s a very high-risk sector, and therefore, should...
Pay TV companies have exploited this season of World Cup to make more money as they provide their customers with easier means...
Telecommunications giant MTN Uganda and pharmaceutical giant CIPLA-Quality Chemicals Ltd (CIPLA-QCI) are finalizing plans to list shares on the Uganda Securities Exchange,...
By George Aine In many developed countries, the use of one card to access services such as medical, transport and financial services...
As internet penetration in Uganda continues to grow and more people, with the proliferation of Chinese smartphones, are able to acquire internet-enabled...
The third week of June ends today, and SautiTech, for the third time, is doing a weekly roundup of the biggest stories...
SautiTech has introduced a special product. Since we kicked off work in May, we’ve so far unveiled two products, a weekly roundup...
FinTechs are continuously stimulating the financial sector and deepening their impact, according to the World FinTech Report 2018 released by Capgemini, LinkedIn...
It is common to find livestock farmers feeding pasture or grass to their animals straight away as they harvest it from the...
The United States of America government through its agency, The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), has lent $100 million (about Shs386 billion)...
Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Secretary and Director for Legal Affairs, Susan Marian Atengo Wegoye was elected to represent Uganda on a committee...
By ITNews Africa Telecommunications companies, MTN South Africa and Ericsson, have validated the technological prowess of fifth generation (5G) wireless technology in...
By George Aine A substantial amount of losses on farms occur at the stage of post-harvest handling. This is as a result...
Prisms, an app developed by Ugandan scientists to help in diagnosing diseases in babies has gained global attention after being featured among...
By Alissa Fleck Telecom experts are going so far as to herald the arrival of 5G as the advent of the fourth industrial...
George Aine The use of machinery on your farm is definitely one of those dreams that every farmer would like to see...
Airtel Uganda has launched a partnership with Kwesé iflix – a mobile platform offering cutting-edge programming, live sports, video-on-demand and download-to-watch-later entertainment...
By Nicholas Asingwire and Julius Wasajja In business, just as in war, when rivals hit the battlefield, they want to kill their...
By George Aine It is true that the hard climatic and economic times have stretched to hit animals even harder since the...
By Ambareen Musa Most startups struggle to survive in their initial few years with the majority failing within the first five years....
By George Aine With the harvest season upon us, many farmers are probably summoning the entire extended families to help in threshing...
By Quartz Africa More than 130 new hubs have opened in Africa over the last two years, and there are still not enough. Many...
Three Ugandan start-ups including two fintechs have been selected among the twenty-two applicants that will face off in the last phase to...
An agricultural technology solution named Tifat has become yet another startup — after Matibabu and Innovex, that will be raising the Ugandan...
By Lauren Kate Rawlins South Africa: Drivers from Uber and Taxify on Monday delivered a memorandum to their respective companies to demand they...
By Anton Gaylard Africa has long been considered a global leader in fintech innovation and adoption. The continent’s low penetration rates for...
SafeBoda is laying strategies to extend its operations in Kenya, SautiTech can reliably report. Established in Kampala in 2015, SafeBoda has so...
To increase their footprint in Africa, CrimsonLogic, a partner of RwandaOnline Platform Limited (ROPL) and a leading provider of eGovernment products and...
The United States government, in partnership with local-tech incubator HIVE Colab, launched the U.S. Mission’s first mobile library project. Called the Nile...
One day in 2011, Ronald Katamba went to office to alert his employer that he was quitting his 9 to 5 job....
By George Aine Many young people with sexual reproductive health (SRH) problems such as early marriage and teenage pregnancies often fear to...
This past Sunday several people across the world marked Father’s Day. Celebrated on different days across various countries, Uganda is among those...
Last week we introduced our latest product in which we do a recap of the biggest stories in technology, focusing mainly on...
For the 2018/19 Financial Year, government has allocated Shs149 billion to the ICT sector, according to a presentation read by Minister of...
Makerere University Vice Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe and former Uganda Investments Authority Executive Director Dr Maggie Kigozi were among the few prominent...
By The NewTimes The National Research and Innovation Fund (NRIF) was officially launched on Wednesday and will be financed by government as...
By Business Daily Ride hailing firm Uber has introduced a safety feature that automatically logs off drivers on the app forcing them...
In 2016, the government of Uganda embarked on the implementation of the 90–90–90 strategy of eliminating HIV/Aids from the country. The 90–90–90...
By Teena Maddox |ZDNET Blockchain is on target to disrupt the world’s financial system, as the secure technology allows faster and more cost-effective processing...
By George Aine A computer was better than human dermatologists at detecting skin cancer in a study that pitted human against machine...
Brian Gitta on Wednesday evening had his name penned in African history books after winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, becoming,...
By Andrew Hutchinson/SocialMediaToday While Facebook has mostly kept Instagram and it’s main platform totally separate since purchasing the image-based platform back in 2012, over...
Uganda Communications Commissions warned broadcasters who have failed to “sieve content” thus enabling their audiences to use their (broadcasters’) platforms to express...
By George Aine Fiat Chrysler, the manufacturer of the Jeep and Maserati brands, had revealed plans to stop manufacturing cars with diesel-powered...
By Telecom Paper Airtel Kenya has abandoned plans to merge with Telkom Kenya to take on the market leading operator Safaricom, Reuters...
With a few days left to the kick-off of the world’s biggest football tournament that will run from June 14 to July...
In the wake of the murder of the legislator and senior army officer (Retd. Col.) Ibrahim Abiriga, which has since heightened security...
From the recently launched cassava app, groundnut and sim-sim machine to the animal-feed crushing machine, SautiTech continues to bring you more agri-tech...
By Reuters Tanzania ordered all unregistered bloggers and online forums on Monday to suspend their websites immediately or face criminal prosecution, as...
The cobalt-60 radiotherapy machine which was shut down over the weekend, with officials claiming it was for the purposes of servicing, resumed...
By Yonhap A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, Coinrail, said Monday its systems have been hacked, highlighting security concerns about virtual currency trading...
By George Aine Simsim and groundnut farming has been a source of livelihood for many farmers in north and eastern Uganda. However,...
Telecommunications company Airtel Uganda has boosted its infrastructure to solidify the network’s internet strength across all districts in the country, the managing...
By George Aine Electric cars are taking centre stage in the automotive industry across the globe. Mass production of the same has...
Following the grisly murder of the legislator Ibrahim Abiriga in a Friday shooting, President Yoweri Museveni announced that government could pass a...
Arua Municipality Member of Parliament Ibrahim Abiriga was shot dead on Friday evening while heading home in Kawanda, Wakiso district. Using wide-ranging...
By Irfan Ahmad Did you know that 46% of users will unfollow a brand on social if they post too many promotional messages...
Uganda on Saturday celebrated Heroes Day. A lot of messages and information about the day were passed on by individuals, companies, government...
Just as we do at the end of every month, SautiTech will be doing a recap of the hottest stories of the...
Swiss company Societe Generale De Surveillance (SGS) has opened its seventh vehicle inspection station in Uganda and it is located in Namanve,...
By Farai Mudzingwa eMbare is a recently launched market place for vendors and before I even used the app I was impressed that...
By Emma Wiltshire (SocialMediaToday) Social media algorithms are constantly evolving. And as marketers, it’s our job to understand the way these platforms work so we can...
MTN Group, headquartered in South Africa, has been in the telecommunications industry for the last 24 years. It currently has thousands of...
By Homi Kharas and Jaana Remes Around the world, governments are making cities “smarter” by using data and digital technology to build...
South Africa’s MTN Group and Vodacom Group has expressed interest in the Ethiopian market, following the announcement by the East African nation...
Uganda has shown her interest in the blockchain technology, and the propensity towards it was displayed during the recent blockchain conference, where...
Mobile operator Orange has inked a co-investment deal with American multinational technology company Google to strengthen the start-up ecosystem in Africa, reports...
By The New Times Blockbonds together with I&M Bank Rwanda, yesterday officially announced the rollout of the first blockchain based platform, SPENN....
By Alvine Chaparadza/TechZim Many social media platforms allow a person to create a group on which members can share views, photographs or...
Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, will be the first host of 2018 Demo Africa Innovation Tours that will rotate in eleven African cities,...
By George Aine Poultry farming in Uganda is increasingly becoming more commercialized in Uganda, with many farmers now beginning to keep thousands...
By TechWeez Little, one of our own local taxi hailing services, has sold its stake for African expansion. Little is being reported...
President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday revealed that the information and communications technology (ICT) sector registered the most growth in the 2017/2018 Financial...
By George Aine Blockchain technology is an integral part of how cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, work. However, many are concerned on how small...
On Tuesday June 5, people across the globe united to celebrate the World Environment Day under the theme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’. Several...
Uber are considering extending their online food delivery system footprint in Uganda, SautiTech can reveal, and this comes shortly after the Uber...
Four Ugandans that are still below the age of thirty were recently recognized in Forbes Africa Magazine among the top ninety continental...
Apple launched its latest version of iOS 12 on Monday at the World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC ‘18) like we had predicted...
Andela Uganda, a community that brings together technologists, is organizing a forum dubbed “First Tech Sundowner Event,” where tech enthusiasts will be...
A few week back we reported some of the developments we anticipated ahead of this year’s World Wide Developer’s Conference which kicked...
The Social Media Conference held annually to analyze the continuing role social media plays in shaping political thoughts and engagements in society...
The Private Sector Forum 2018, running under the theme “Harnessing digitalization for the development of Agricultural value chains in Uganda” focused on...
Facebook’s most popular messaging app is set to fully launch its Unified Process Interface (UPI)-based digital payments system in India this week,...
A Ugandan innovator named Brian Giita is set to face off with 3 finalists from other African countries in the African Prize...
Competition for both drivers and customers is getting tighter each day among the hailing apps: Uber, Taxify and SafeBoda. Whereas SafeBoda specialized...
By Business Daily MTN Ghana, the largest telecom operator in Ghana opened a historic Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the country that...
Vodacom Tanzania Limited’s mobile money service, M-Pesa is celebrating 10 years of existence since its launch in 2008. Speaking about the achievements...
On April 25th, 2018, Google gave Gmail a complete new design enhancing both its functions and the User Interface. Following the company’s...
On the 31st of May, Makerere University, on their official Twitter page, announced the launch of the Cassava Application, a mobile platform...