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Tue, May 8th, 20:21 · HumanIPO

Facebook, Sophos engage to protect users against malware

Giant social networking site Facebook has partnered with Sophos, an IT security and data protection company, to protect its users from suspicious links that lead to malware or malicious sites. → Read more
Tue, May 8th, 16:25 · HumanIPO

Kenya among the world’s top five nations ready for mobile payment uptake

MasterCard Worldwide, an American multinational financial services corporation, has ranked Kenya among the countries most ready to use mobile payments in its latest survey report. → Read more
Tue, May 8th, 15:50 · Elly Okutoyi

Uganda’s tax agency launches tax payment app

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), a tax collection agency, has partnered with Orient Bank and Warid Telecom to create a mobile-money tax payment solution set to help small taxpayers cut costs. → Read more
Tue, May 8th, 14:00 · HumanIPO

Ghanaian company in a deal to distribute Tecno’s mobile applications

SMSGH, Ghana-based mobile content aggregation company, has signed an agreement with a China-based mobile phone manufacturing company, Techno Telcom, to distribute Tehno’s embedded mobile applications to users. → Read more
Tue, May 8th, 13:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenyan mobile telephone operators in tussle over US$10 million debt

Safaricom, a top Kenyan mobile telephone operator, has moved to court in a bid to recover almost half a billion Kenya Shillings owed to it by its rivals Airtel Kenya and Essar for non-payment of termination fees, the amount of money an operator pays rivals if its subscribers call another network. → Read more
Tue, May 8th, 11:46 · Vincent Matinde

Bank in SA to launch geo-based mobile payments

First National Bank will on Wednesday launch a mobile application tool expected to allow its customers exchange money without using their banking details. → Read more
Tue, May 8th, 11:24 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya ICT Board gives 104 million to innovators

The Kenya ICT Board last week Friday gave out Ksh104 million shillings to finalist in the Tandaa Grants contest that ran from July last year. → Read more
Tue, May 8th, 09:57 · HumanIPO

NiRA expected to bring 250,000 Nigerian businesses online by 2013

Google and the Nigerian Internet Registration Association, registry for .com.ng Internet Domain Names, have partnered to bring 250, 000 businesses online. → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 19:20 · HumanIPO

Syniverse to fund BBB Mobile Giving Foundation

Syniverse has announced a premier sponsorship of the BBB Mobile Foundation, an organization enabling charities to raise funds via mobile devices. → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 17:25 · HumanIPO

Ghana’s SSTC heralds space science in West Africa

Ghana opened a Space Science and technology Centre (SSTC) last week Wednesday in a move aimed at tapping into potentials of science and technology to increase the country’s socio-economic development → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 16:25 · Vincent Matinde

Samsung Galaxy S3 to hit Kenyan stores by June

After its debut in London and South Africa last week, the Samsung Galaxy SIII is expected to hit the Kenyan market in June, says Samsung East Africa. → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 15:50 · HumanIPO

Techno Brain’s new Uganda office aimed at expanding firm’s African presence

Techno Brain, a software development company with operations in USA, UK and UAE, has announced plans to open an office in Uganda in May this year, a strategy expected to expand the firm’s African operations. → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 15:30 · HumanIPO

Nigeria to start mobile number portability in June

Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Nigeria's communication regulator, is set to conduct nationwide Mobile Number Portability (MNP) starting June. → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 15:05 · Elly Okutoyi

Facebook sources for organ donations with its new service

Facebook has officially launched a new feature that enables users to indicate organ donation status on profiles. → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 12:40 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya honours top bloggers

Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) on Saturday awarded top bloggers from across the country. → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 11:50 · Elly Okutoyi

Uganda’s SatNav sells 21 percent stakes to an SA firm

MapIT, a South Africa-based company, has bought 21 percent stakes from SatNav East Africa, a Uganda-based IT firm. → Read more
Mon, May 7th, 08:01 · HumanIPO

MapIT says it’s not afraid of Google Maps in Africa

With plans to set up a regional office in East Africa, 10-year old mapIT, which began as a data provider in South Africa, now covers 104 countries and more than 38.4 million kilometres of road coverage globally. The firm views Google Maps entry into Africa as the birth of strategic partnership and not a competitor. → Read more
Sat, May 5th, 07:11 · HumanIPO

Zuku TV’s wholly East African content to boost viewership

Launched three years ago in Kenya and now with operations in Tanzania and Uganda, Zuku TV has promised to give its audience something new that is exclusively East African. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 20:00 · HumanIPO

US$6300 kitty up for grabs as Nigeria’s NIG flags off an Internet job initiative

With 23.9 percent of the more than 155 million Nigerians unemployed, almost half of them consisting of the youth, according to 2011 statistics by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics, the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) has come up with an initiative set to reduce the unemployment trend. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 19:30 · HumanIPO

Nigerian wins nomination into ICANN

As Africa gets closer to acquiring its own top-level domain name, called dotAfrica, an African of Nigerian descent has been nominated into the ICANN, a move widely anticipated to enable the continent achieve broad representation at the global Internet community. → Read more