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Fri, April 19th, 07:39 · Kamau Mbote

OPINION: What Tanzania and Zimbabwe can learn from Kenya’s BVR fiasco

Tanzania and neighbour Zimbabwe recently announced they will use biometric voter registration (BVR) kits in their forthcoming elections, but what can the two countries learn from the systems failures during Kenya’s recent elections? → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 07:32 · Brandon Gregory

Scaling Facebook with 1bn monthly users with “tens of thousands” of servers

Neil Blakey-Milner, a production engineer for Facebook's core systems, says Facebook’s construction of its own data centres is helping to scale the world’s largest social media site. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 07:21 · Richard Cutcher

MTN boosted by US Supreme Court ruling

MTN Group has taken a positive step in its fight against accusations of bribery and using political influence in its bid to secure a telecoms licence in Iran. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 07:14 · Igor Hobotov

Kenyan internet subscriptions increase by 75% in one year

Internet subscriptions in Kenya grew by 11.5 per cent in the last quarter, according to the latest statistics from the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), with subscription numbers having risen 75 per cent since the same period last year. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 15:23 · Nanine Steenkamp

African entrepreneurial mindset needs reality check, says report

Philanthropic foundation Omidyar Network warned against an idealised African entrepreneurial mindset in its report released this morning (Friday) in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 15:11 · Brandon Gregory

RightShift’s Daniel Fiske tells entrepreneurs to be dumbest in company

Daniel Fiske, co-founder and chief technical officer at social gaming and casino game company RightShift, has unveiled his tips for startups, including only ever hiring people that are “smarter than you”. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 14:52 · HumanIPO

Open Letter: You do Africa a disservice by underestimating how far we’ve come

Duncan Arthur, an independent payments, mobile and African banking expert, has written an open letter calling on primarily non-African conference organisers to drop their obsession with M-Pesa and begin to look at the bigger picture on the continent. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 14:40 · Kamau Mbote

ICT gets dedicated ministry in Kenyatta government

Uhuru Kenyatta has awarded ICT an independent ministry, in a further statement of the new Kenyan government’s outspoken commitment to technological advancement. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 14:35 · Richard Cutcher

Airtel Ghana upsets local contractors

Airtel Ghana is allegedly in the process of ending its contracts with local suppliers so it can use overseas companies. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 14:22 · Kamau Mbote

Hellofood’s mobile app among leading food apps globally

Food delivery app Hellofood is among the leading food delivery apps globally with 250,000 app downloads in less than three months, topping the list in three African countries. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:54 · Richard Cutcher

Vodafone Ghana CEO trades Africa for Qatar

Vodafone Ghana is losing its chief executive of three years, Kyle Whitehill, to affiliate company Vodafone Qatar. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:50 · Richard Cutcher

KT exit race for majority stake in Maroc Telecom

“Big differences” have forced South Korean telecommunications company KT Corp to drop out of the bidding Vivendi’s 53 per cent stake in Maroc Telecom. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:35 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mobile, cloud key themes at SA TechEd conference

The Microsoft-driven TechEd conference this week in South Africa focuses on the roles of mobile and cloud in the tech space as a driver of African economy and investments. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:34 · Igor Hobotov

Strengthen broadband structure, East Africa told

The director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau (DBT) at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Brahima Sanou has urged East African nations to strengthen their broadband structures to enable internet growth in the region. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:16 · Nanine Steenkamp

Microsoft Surface coming to SA

Microsoft says its newest tablet, Surface, will be launching in South Africa, as it enters the market beyond PCs. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:12 · Richard Cutcher

ODM co-founder against StarTimes’ TopTV purchase

A co-founder of TopTV parent company, On Digital Media (ODM), has expressed his concern at the prospect of StarTimes taking over the ailing broadcasting group. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:08 · Brandon Gregory

Nomanini, innovating airtime purchases with technology

Nomanini, a Cape Town based startup, has set itself the main goal of replacing physical airtime scratch cards with mobile point-of-sale (POS) terminals in Africa. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 12:53 · HumanIPO

The HumanIPO Debate: Is #KOT a legitimate organisation with worthy motives?

Kenyans on Twitter (#KOT) have caused quite a stir in the last few months, turning their wrath on the likes of CNN, Barack Obama and even whole nations in the form of Nigeria, Botswana and Uganda. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 12:34 · Kamau Mbote

New laws to curb money laundering using mobile transfers

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has fronted new laws to check mobile money laundering, which are now under deliberation by stakeholders. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 12:07 · Richard Cutcher

Oracle releases further Java security updates

Oracle have released another wave of security updates in a bid to fix 42 vulnerabilities within Java. → Read more