The Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF), a service fund that was rolled out in 2013 to ensure that underserved areas in Uganda...
Have you ever been on the phone talking about a holiday or a pair of shoes then, without googling said holiday or...
By TechCrunch Tesla CEO Elon Musk will step down as chairman of the electric automaker and pay a $20 million fine under a settlement...
By The New Times The East African Community (EAC) bloc is developing a regional Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy to boost...
Neopenda, a healthtech startup creating solutions that give patients in low-resource settings access to high-quality care, is among the startups based in...
Hilda Asiimwe, a Ugandan techpreneur and her Ghanaian colleague, Richmond Ampabeng Bediako, have developed a platform, Digital Health Access, that enables users...
Paul Isaac Musasizi, the chief executive officer of Kiira Motors Corporation, has been inducted into the African CEOs Hall of Fame, the...
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, the first wildlife veterinary officer of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, is among the winners in the 2018 Sierra Club...
In 2010, Hive Colab opened its doors for startups in Uganda, with a vision of “cultivating and scaling ideas with positive social...
Tugende CEO Michael Wilkerson has said that while there is commendable progress by many countries in sub-Saharan Africa on financial inclusion, having...
Uganda’s online apparel shopping platform, 2ambale, has said it is expanding its footprint to more African countries, focusing on East Africa first....
Apple recently introduced the iPhone XS, iPhone XS max and the iPhone XR running the most advanced technology Apple has ever introduced...
The Internet Society, a global non-profit organization dedicated to the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet, on Tuesday, announced that...
By George Aine Mr. Alon Lits, Uber’s general manager for sub-Saharan Africa, has revealed that Uber’s innovations in Africa have helped shape...
By Recode Google is pushing deeper into Stories, the photo and video montages that Snapchat created and Facebook popularized after it copied...
In 2009, when WARID Telecom rolled out its Pakalast advert, marketing its voice bundles, Eric Mununuzi was 22. The advert, immediately after...
Savio Lule Mark Badangayo, the founder of The Youth Hub Uganda, is among 116 people worldwide who have been selected to join...
Most people purchase a new TV without giving the entire process much thought. In Uganda, it’s always the factor of money that...
By George Aine Most Africans crave four-wheel drive vehicles that will suit the pot-holed roads in most parts of the continent. However,...
By Android Central Ten years ago, today, the world of smartphones changed. The T-Mobile G1 made its debut with little fanfare, a...
By George Aine Security officers working in the border districts have urged the government to regulate online job recruitment for people who...
Facebook and Twitter started with desktop/browser versions long before they introduced mobile apps for users. Instagram, on the other hand, started as...
A fresh breed of scammers has hit the mobile money sector, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has cautioned. The most common trick...
By George Aine Uganda has been ranked number one on the Africa continent in cybersecurity management, a new report indicates. According to...
National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has said it did not issue the statement that has been circulating online that they will...
By CNet Apple isn’t known for its iPhone’s battery capacities — and Huawei wants to help. The Chinese phone maker took to...
At the end of August, Taxify started rolling out a feature called Driver Destination to help drivers and Taxify Boda riders to...
The grand ceremony to recognize the winners in the 2018 Digital Impact Awards Africa went down Friday evening at the Kampala Serena...
This year Huawei beat Apple in smartphone sales and took the second spot just below Samsung. Both the first and second slots...
Following the end of the 2-month promotion in which SafeBoda would give a 50% discount on all rides, and another 20% for...
Wazi Vision, a healthtech startup founded to provide more affordable means of diagnosing eye impairments in children between the age of 5...
An Nisa, Africa’s first women-only ride-hailing company was launched Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya. An Nisa means for women in Arabic, and the...
Samsung’s highly touted and supposedly fireproof Galaxy Note 9 cell phone spontaneously combusted inside a Long Island woman’s purse, she charges in...
Lori Systems, a Nairobi-based startup that is building a logistics platform to improve cargo transportation across Africa is now present in Uganda,...
Financial institutions in Uganda and the entire East African region have been urged to embrace FinTechs to achieve financial inclusion. According to...
MTN Uganda on Thursday unveiled a virtual payment gateway called MTN MoMocard that is aimed at enabling quicker and more secure online...
Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) Spokesman Luke Owoyesigyire has said that security operatives are on the ground to find out what could have...
Internet privacy is an area of great concern today. It is an area gaining much attention today because data has become a...
In this interview, Mr. John Kamara, Director for Global Gaming Africa, explains how Africa has embraced blockchain technology. What kind of solutions...
Samsung is currently the largest smartphone maker. However, in the recent past, its sales and market share has been significantly declining. As...
By George Aine Cabinet has approved the National Broadband Policy, putting in place stringent laws to be followed by telecom and broadband...
The government of Uganda has approved the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) to renew the license of telecommunications giant MTN Uganda. The license...
In May of this year, ChapChap Africa unveiled new features they had added to their flagship product, the ChapChap Merchant application. With...
By The New Times The Ministry of Education has challenged secondary schools to fast-track a new model of a smart classroom in...
By George Aine Uganda’s largest pharmaceutical company Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited (CiplaQCIL) on Monday listed its 657,179,319 shares on the Uganda...
By George Aine Africa’s premier fintech event, the Africa Fintech Summit, will be held for the first time in Lagos, Nigeria, on...
By George Aine Many African countries are beginning to embrace the use of commercial drones to achieve service delivery. In Rwanda, the...
Cinnamon Clubs, a software that helps investment clubs to manage and keep records has been rolled out in Zambia, Dickson Mushabe, the...
Joy Doreen Biira, a Ugandan journalist currently based in Kenya, has been named among the top 250 business and technology journalists in...
Ten innovators from the Ugandan legal technology ecosystem qualified for the 2018 HiiL Justice Accelerator, putting the pearl of Africa in the...
By Vanessa Kamau/TechMoran Weight loss is one of the key problems that most women have. You probably had resolutions at the beginning of...
A new report released by Ecobank Research has shown that Ugandan has the most expensive mobile data in East Africa and it...
While the internet is becoming cheaper, many people in developing countries still can’t afford it. But there’s an increasing need to access...
The parliament of Uganda on Friday weighed in on the comments made Thursday by the Obongi county Member of Parliament (MP) Hassan...
By VenturesAfrica South African-owned multinational media group and parent company of DSTV, Multichoice may downsize its workforce to effectively deal with fierce...
Once in a while, we misplace our phones. When this happens, we start panicking, either because of the information the lost phone...
A Ugandan technology entrepreneur called Abraham Natukunda has beaten thousands to emerge among the 10 nominees of the 2018 Innovation Prize for...
The multinational technology company Apple has multiple social media accounts, with combined tens of millions of followers, but most of them are...
By Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple announced three new iPhones during its fall event in Cupertino on Wednesday, including the iPhone XS, the...
By George Aine The government is set to launch the Uganda National Commodity Exchange Ltd (UNCE) with online trading capabilities in a...
A startup in Africa is testing a hypothesis. Can cheap solar panels and batteries do for electricity what mobile phones did for...
A new ride-hailing company has announced it will be launching its services in Uganda this year, entering a market that is currently...
By Nick Douglas/LifeHacker Together with Vlad Tenev, second-generation American Baiju Bhatt founded the stock brokerage service Robinhood, which lets users trade public stocks from...
Millions of people around the world use Twitter each day. However, some are faced with barriers such as slow mobile networks, expensive...
The government has developed an electronic system that will license recruitment agencies and vet migrant workers in a bid to eliminate middlemen...
By George Aine The Central Bank has agreed with the Ministry of Finance to support the proposed 0.5 percent Mobile Money tax...
Two Ugandan agritech startups are among the 12 companies that were picked from six African countries to participate in the 2018/2019 Ashoka...
By George Aine Cabinet has approved a government proposal to borrow $104,022,277 (about 400b) from Standard Chartered Bank to install more CCTV...
The National Information Technology Authority (NITA-Uganda) and the National Identification & Registration Authority (NIRA) are part of the 25 agencies to be...
“The conventional way has never changed the world,” Alfred Opio, the chief executive officer of KAINO Africa, said Tuesday morning as the...
After numerous years of monitoring your usage stats, YouTube has decided to give some of this information back to users. YouTube has...
Too much time on your phone can lead to an imbalance in your brain chemistry and has been linked to depression, anxiety,...
Taxido, a ride-hailing service based in Camberwell in the United Kingdom is looking for motorcycle riders and drivers as it prepares to...
Motorcycle taxi hailing companies are facing resistance in Uganda. In the past few weeks, there have been separate reports of SafeBoda and...
The government has announced that it has started a pilot programme where it is video-conferencing lessons in schools in rural areas. According...
President Yoweri Museveni reiterated his firm belief in employing technology to crack the current shootings of high profile figures in the country...
An online store based in Rwanda called Kasha has launched its second branch in Kenya. Kasha’s platform helps women shop beauty and...
By George Aine Students of Mentor Secondary School in Lira Municipality have designed a mobile application that helps in testing Diabetes. The...
By The New Times In an effort to reduce corruption, improve transparency and efficiency, and minimize potential collusion among bidders, several countries...
Having a device last more than a year with the same user is very rare these days. One of the major reasons...
An association of motorcycle taxi riders in Kampala called Boda Boda Industry Uganda (BIU) is rolling out a drive against their counterparts...
Inspector General of Police Okoth Ochola has directed police commanders operating in areas where SafeBoda riders do business to ensure that they...
There are times when you mistakenly delete a file on your PC, and you are stuck on how to retrieve that particular...
When buying internet data bundles, telecom companies always indicate the period in which you have to use that package before it’s rendered...
By George Aine In 2012, the government lost about Shs100 billion to 25,000 suspected ghost employees planted on the government payroll by...
National Information Technology Authority – Uganda (NITA-U) has organized a cyber-defense workshop alongside NRD Cyber Security, a European company focusing on discussing...
Julianne Rwakooko Mweheire is now the Director Industry Affairs and Content Development at the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC). The position fell vacant...
The new digital age has allowed more and more devices we use to be connected to the internet, carry cameras and audio...
In 2015, one of the most fascinating reports in the recent past was released, naming Uganda the world’s most entrepreneurial country. Since...
Scientists, data journalists, data geeks, and any other data users will now easily discover datasets online thanks to the “Dataset Search” tool...
Ugandan techpreneur Kevin Lubega and Humphrey Nabimanya, a social entrepreneur were recently listed among the 100 most influential young Africans. The list...
By Anna Johansson/Entrepreneur The convenience and far reach of the internet have given millions of people the ability to make a living...
Ugandan startups are among the budding companies that are allowed to apply for the CATAPULT: Inclusion Africa, a program of Fintech startup...
Internet access in most countries remains significantly low, with affordability being mentioned as one of the largest barriers to digital inclusion, according...
Submission of applications to participate in The AppsAfrica awards, a project that is climaxed with a ceremony to showcase the most exciting...
By Tom Jackson /Disrupt Africa Entrepreneurs and small businesses have long been regarded as the engines that power the global economy, but the thing...
BringCom Incorporated, a multinational provider of connectivity solutions based in the U.S., has completed the acquisition of Datanet.Com, LLC in Uganda. This...
Microsoft recently announced in a blog post that the next update which will be called the “Windows 10 October 2018 update” will...
Most smartphone users notice their smartphone speeds reduce over time. The speed your device had when you started using it tends to...
By TechMoran Technologies are becoming the backbone of businesses of all sizes across the world. As a result, there are a growing...
A rider who has been working with the ride-hailing company, SafeBoda, and only identified as Kazibwe has been sacked from the company...
The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance Vincent Bagiire Waiswa has urged Ugandan innovators to develop systems that...