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Fri, November 8th, 06:00 · Susan Mwenesi
MTN Rwanda to offer 24 hour services
MTN Rwanda is now providing 24 hour services for mobile money withdrawal at its Union Trade Centre service point. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 19:00 · Richard Cutcher
Silk Road returns after FBI lockdown
The online drugs marketplace Silk Road, which was closed by the FBI last month, appears to have reborn by a group of its former moderators. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 18:30 · Richard Cutcher
MultiChoice adds new channels
MultiChoice is launching four new channels on DStv in South Africa in partnership with Chello Zone. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 18:00 · Brandon Gregory
Building an online audience the long, hard, and stupid way
The best way to build an online audience for a blog is the long, hard, and stupid way, according to Rian van der Merwe, a director at Flow Interactive SA. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 18:00 · Richard Cutcher
Cell C launch 65c per minute international calls
Cell C, South Africa’s third mobile network, has launched a three month international calling promotion allowing 65c per minute calls to selected countries in North America, Asia and Europe. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 17:30 · Kamau Mbote
Internet users reaches 19.6m in Kenya
Internet penetration has increased 61.2 per cent year-on-year in Kenya, boosted primarily by an increase in mobile data subscriptions as well as of internet subscriptions resulting to a surge of 61.2 percent compared to the previous year according to the just released. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 17:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Ugandan government offices to receive payments electronically
Anyone making payments to any government office in Uganda will now be required to pay electronically through the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) in an effort to curb corruption in the public sector as well as increase tax revenue. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 16:30 · Richard Cutcher
Wikipedia Zero launched in Kenya with Airtel
The Praekelt Foundation has confirmed its partnership with Airtel Kenya to provide Wikipedia Zero in the East African country for free. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 16:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Microsoft Office 365 now launches in Ghana
Microsoft has introduced Office 365 in Ghana extending availability of its cloud-based service across the African market in efforts to give users both online and offline experiences. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 15:30 · Richard Cutcher
DA launch new legal challenge against e-tolls
The Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa’s opposition party, has submitted a fresh legal challenge against the government’s e-tolling plans in Gauteng in a bid to delay the controversial project. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 15:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Huawei to invest $600million in 5G research
Huawei Technologies will invest at least US$600 million in research and innovation for 5G in the next four years covering a range of enabling technologies. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 14:30 · Paul Adepoju
Konga.com gets 4 nominations in Nigerian marketing awards
Konga.com, the Nigerian e-commerce site, has recieved four nominations in this year’s Marketing World Awards being held tomorrow (Friday). → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 14:00 · Kamau Mbote
Kenyan companies should be utilising e-commerce – experts
Business experts in Kenya have urged companies to adopt e-commerce as the future of their trade operations. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 13:30 · Richard Cutcher
Lumia 1020 to launch in SA
The Nokia Lumia 1020 will be available in South Africa in the next few weeks on the Vodacom and MTN networks. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 13:30 · Kamau Mbote
KENIC CEO fired
John Wambugu, chief executive officer (CEO) at Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC), appears to have been fired just a few months into the job although the exact date of his departure remains unclear. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 13:00 · Richard Cutcher
Twitter to IPO today, $14b value expected
Twitter will be valued at more than US$14 billion when it begins selling shares today (Thursday) after announcing the initial public offering (IPO) of its 70 million shares will be priced at US$26 per share. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 12:00 · Richard Cutcher
Telkom Mobile giving away 2.4GB for $5
Telkom Mobile has launched a ‘SIM Only Internet Starter Pack’ priced at ZAR49 (US$4.78), giving away 200MB per month of data for a year. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 11:30 · Nick Sato
Kenyan mobile voice traffic down, SMS use up
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) released the ICT Sector Quarterly Statistical Report for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2012/13 yesterday (Wednesday), providing an overview of performance and development trends in the country’s ICT sector. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 11:00 · Richard Cutcher
Travelport opens operations in Somalia
E-commerce and distribution service provider Travelport has added Somalia to its African footprint, taking the number of African countries it is now present in to 48. → Read more
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Thu, November 7th, 10:30 · Richard Cutcher
SMS is the now and the future – Wasamundi
Nara Laurence, co-founder of Cameroonian online city guide startup Wasamundi, believes SMS is no “pie in the sky” when it comes to monetising a businesses and is at the centre of the company’s business model. → Read more
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