Lycamobile, a United Kingdom-based telecommunications company is laying the groundwork ahead of its launch in Uganda, betting on a market that saw...
Co-Creation Hub, an 8-year-old innovation center based in Lagos, Nigeria has announced it will be commissioning its second unit in Africa which...
Telecommunications giant MTN Uganda has become the first mobile network operator in the country to enable cross-network mobile money transfers among all...
Aidos Kuneen (ADK), a Tangle-based cryptocurrency is planning on offering itself as an exchange traded fund (ETF) in Kenya, Ricardo Badoer, the...
By Rachel Strella As 2018 nears its conclusion, business owners and marketers should be thinking about what they can do to make their...
By Stephen Obeli Don’t the rich, the famous and the wannabes live and make most of their purchasing decisions everyday and weekend of...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which is said to be the largest private foundation in the United States is supporting an innovation...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced an investment of US$7.5 million in Africa Tech Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Kenya....
By Nathan Mendenhall Social media marketing is a very odd thing. On one hand, social media is a medium which enables brands...
KaiOS Technologies, a company that develops KaiOS, an operating system optimized for smart feature phones has established strategic partnerships that could significantly...
The Westerwelle Foundation has unveiled the agenda for the Spring 2019 Westerwelle Young Founders Programme and the deadline for application is January...
Bralirwa, the largest brewer and soft beverage company in Rwanda, has started locally brewing Heineken beer in the country, a move that...
By Annie Bricker Africa is in a constant battle against its colossal geographic scale, political unrest, and lack of legacy infrastructure, creating a...
In the business life, we make deals with two groups of people – those who have become dear friends and those we...
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) has appointed eight scientists to its Secretariat to support the implementation of...
Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu is the new chief executive officer of The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF). Ugochukwu, who replaces Parminder Vir, will be taking...
Eversend, a digital payment gateway leveraging emerging technologies like blockchain to facilitate electronic money transfers, is among the winners of the London...
Demand for the traditional feature phones has continued to rise despite the existence of the more customized smartphones, statistics show. Data released...
Social networking site Facebook is set to mark its entry into the financial sector with a cryptocurrency that enables users to transfer...
Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda is the 2018 African of the Year, according to Forbes. Kagame, who is also the chairman...
MTN Group unveiled six new executives who will be taking up different roles at the company headquarters and its subsidiaries across the...
Ugandan innovator Ketty Adoch is among the eleven “changemakers” that have been selected to receive Microsoft and National Geographic AI for Earth...
EkoRent, a Finland-based company which has been testing Nopia Ride, the first electric taxi-hailing company in East Africa, has promised to start...
Tuskys, one of East Africa’s biggest supermarkets, has ventured into the electronic commerce space with some unique services that could give it...
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) has announced a fund to a tune of US $2 million (about Shs7.4 billion) to...
Hundreds of tertiary institutions in Uganda, every year, churn out multiple job seekers to the country that’s unprepared for them. This country...
At the beginning of 2019, Uganda joined fellow East African countries to start issuing ePassports. The first batch of more than 20,000...
The entire National ID registration process had a few errors here and there. Ranging from incorrect name spellings to the wrong date...
Andela, a global training and placement company for software developers, officially launched its third unit in Africa, Andela Uganda, in July of...
The government of Rwanda has announced it will be resuming the Internet on the Bus Initiative which had been suspended, following a...
MTN Rwanda has partnered with the world’s biggest social networking site, Facebook, to introduce Facebook Flex, allowing Rwandans using MTN sim cards...
By Stephen Obeli I want to be honest with you today; many of us doing social media marketing in this year are...
On a Sunday evening of March 4 this year, President Yoweri Museveni rolled out social media posts, announcing he was firing one...
Smartphones today collect a lot of data. When it comes to photos, most of the smartphones save the basic information such as...
By Njenga Hakeenah Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in the daily life of the Ugandan population through internet access...
Wi-Fi connection, broadband or any form of internet connection will require troubleshooting once in a while to fix connectivity issues. Below, we...
GoZem, one of the latest ride-hailing companies in Africa, launched in Togo, trying out its luck in West Africa, which is still...
The National ID or identity card has become the most popular form of identity in Uganda today. Even telecom companies in Uganda...
By Pius Muhumuza I can’t claim to be an expert in car tracking, let alone Telematics but I sure do know enough...
Cosmas Ndugga, the founder of The Cosmas Foundation Uganda, a non-profit organization, is the winner of the US $500 grant put up...
Fintech International Limited has rolled out a new generation of smart point of sale (POS) terminals that are aimed at increasing efficiency...
American firm CTI Africa has pledged to give Uganda farmers insurance offers, mobile banking, microfinance and agricultural education services early next year...
Zembo, an automotive company started by two French engineers, will begin selling electric motorcycles in Uganda in April 2019, SautiTech has been...
On Tuesday, drivers attached to the different ride-hailing services in Kampala expressed their dissatisfaction with the prevailing situation in the industry, issuing...
Liquid Telecom Kenya has partnered with Africa’s largest non-profit civic technology network Code for Africa (CfA) to install air quality sensors at...
Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics company Huawei has joined a growing list of global companies that are setting up hubs...
Hello Tractor, a startup that helps farmers digitally access tractors has teamed up with the research team of the American multinational IT...
Wasla Browser, a search engine created for internet users in the Middle East and Africa, has been launched in Egypt. Founded by...
Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma has said he set up an electronic world trade platform (eWTP) in Rwanda because the tiny East African...
LED TV, OLED TV, and QLED TV come to mind whenever one looks to improve their TV experience. But the picture quality...
Digital taxi drivers have demanded application operators to increase fares per kilometer to match with the current costs incurred to sustain their...
Ugandan healthtech startup M-Scan has beaten 14 other African companies to emerge winner at the 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa. On Tuesday,...
Global money transfer agency WorldRemit has struck a deal with Addis International Bank, which is based in Ethiopia, to boost online money...
Ride-hailing service Uber has partnered with Tigo, a telecommunications company based in Tanzania to introduce UberChopper to East Africa’s largest nation. According...
Swipe2pay, a Ugandan startup that helps merchants track their records and manage payments, has won U.S. $40,000 (about Shs149 million) after emerging winners...
Spanish delivery startup Glovo has expanded its Africa operations to Kenya, underlying its intention to revolutionize the customer delivery service on the...
Have you written your TIN number somewhere and can’t seem to find it? Or you never bothered writing it somewhere and can’t...
American streaming giant Netflix is closing in on its plan of producing original African continent, headlining with a South African drama series...
Liquid Telecom has reached an agreement with CDC Group Plc, the UK’s development finance institution, to invest $180m with the company. This...
All eyes on Wednesday, December 11 are on Lagos, Nigeria as Mobile Scan Solutions (MScan), a Ugandan startup, and 14 others from...
In the past few weeks, Uber has launched two major services in Kenya, looking to fulfill its plans of leading the ride-hailing...
Boeing has announced new plans to launch a STEM Center targeting Egyptian youth between the ages of 12 and 16. The new...
Makerere University don Dr. Alice Nabatanzi has beaten other African scientists to qualify for a fellowship under the University of Pretoria in...
A new electronic commerce company StarMartz has set up shop in Rwanda, eyeing to cash in on the growing online payment space...
Liquid Telecom has announced that it is investing US $400m in Egypt over the next three years. This is part of a...
China’s central bank on Monday warned that rejecting cash as a form of payment was illegal, saying that such practices could eventually...
By Zander Nethercutt The year was 1957, and Pepsi — like many of the youth at that time — was dealing with an...
When you want to attract the attention of a particular market, you either bring to them what they (or you) think they...
Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has rolled out the 2019 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme and beginning January 1, 2019, the Foundation will start accepting...
The government of Rwanda has resumed its project to give laptop loans to students after shelving it for a while due to...
Six Ugandan startups are among 100 firms from across the continent that were Thursday announced as winners of The Next 100 African...
Ugandan agritech startup AgroSupply is set to represent Uganda at the Entrepreneurship Forum for Emerging Markets in Africa, which will take place...
The Federal Government is in talks with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to create $500 million innovation fund for technology and creative...
Rwanda’s penchant for Information and Communication Technology has gone a notch higher with the launch of a web-based video streaming channel that...
Nairobi, Kenya: The multiplatform broadcast network Kwesé, a subsidiary of Econet, today announced the launch of video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service, Kwesé Play,...
Ahead of Startit 360, an event that will see budding entrepreneurs acquire skills to help them thrive in the business world, organisers...
GrowthAfrica has rolled out the acceleration programme for 2019, which will be focusing on startups and entrepreneurs in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and...
Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has overtaken Apple in numbers of wearable devices sold in the third quarter of 2018, becoming the world’s...
There are times in nearly every computer user’s life when they need a file from their computer and it isn’t nearby. Being...
Swedish Fintech Okapi Finance has partnered with Ecobank to enable seamless transfer of money between the two companies in Kenya, with the...
Rwandan car dealer Akagera Motors has scored a major deal with the German automobile company Mercedes-Benz, which will see the former be...
The Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda will start online licensing of Insurance Brokers, Bancassurance Agents and Loss Assessors in 2019 and perpetual...
Kenya’s leading telecommunication company Safaricom rolled out Zuri, an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that will help the telco’s customers to make inquiries via...
The cost of manufacturing smartphones is set to rise following the decision by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) to raise...
By Edgar Karamagi Working in the [Marketing and Advertising] industry, many times I have had to be asked on the question of...
Two smart classrooms have opened in Rwanda, accelerating the country’s plans to become the leading implementer of sustainable technology on the African...
The first batch of electronic passports has arrived in the country ahead of issuance in January 2019. Uganda is set to migrate...
Global IT company Hewlett-Packard (HP) has rolled out a technology incubation and entrepreneurship training hub dubbed HP LIFE Center in South Africa....
Giant phone maker Apple has shelved plans to release a 5G phone in 2019, giving leeway to competitors Samsung, OnePlus and Motorola...
Egyptian-based ride-hailing service Halan announced it would be expanding its operations to more nations after closing a multi-million-dollar Series-A investment. The funding round...
In 2015, Kenneth Bintu’s friend was robbed at knifepoint. Bintu’s friend had boarded a Taxi headed to Busega, a Kampala suburb, not...
The worry of monitoring movement of goods by businesspersons, who use cargo services to ship merchandise from overseas, has been lessened after...
Kenya’s digital payments company Cellulant has announced plans to set up an application programming interface (API) that will enable a single online...
After a series of events that included workshops, film screenings, and exhibitions, the 2018 Uganda Film Festival climaxed on November 30 with...
Dickson Mushabe, the chief executive officer of Hostalite, has been recognized by the CEO Global’s Titans: Building Nations, 2018 Awards for his...
The vast majority of startups in Uganda are still struggling to attract funding. Though a recent report by GSMA has shown that...