The Guardian Nigeria, a renowned newspaper house in Nigeria, has just announced the launch of its online TV platform, Guardian TV. Guardian TV will be available on virtually any device that has an internet connection, including personal computers, tablets, smartphones, and Smart TVs as it will provide exclusive video interviews, as well as up-to-the-minute videos from across the […]
Phone comes in sleek design to tap into the youth and middle income segments
Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging apps has announced strengthened security in Viber’s voice/video call, message, video and photo, in both group messages and one-to-one communication, a complete end-to-end encryption across all devices including Android and iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, PC’s and Mac desktops. This feature will be available over the coming weeks to […]
A recently released Gartner, Inc. report has awarded Samsung Electronics’ KNOX 2.6, a built-in defense grade security feature, the most “Strong” ratings of any mobile security platform for its Corporate Managed Security. The report, ‘Mobile Device Security: A Comparison of Platforms’, compared the core OS security features built into twelve mobile device platforms as well […]
Google has pledged to train one million young Africans in digital skills in the next coming year as part of its contribution to growing Africa’s digital economy. The Giant search engine company will support its partner Livity Africa to run two free training programs: Digify Bytes to offer digital skills to young people looking to develop a digital career; […]
PesaBazaar.com has launched a Sh 40 million insurance price comparison web portal to the Kenyan market, the service allows consumers to compare premiums and features of similar insurance products and services at a glance. The portal will enable customers to freely and conveniently compare and purchase a wide range of insurance products at the click of a button. […]
With the growing competition in the Pay tv market segment MultiChoice, a south African based media firm has added 20 new channels on their “DStv Now”, a free of charge to Premium service Customers, adding the number of live TV channels to over 40 channels. The customers will be able to watch DStv content on a variety of […]
Local multimedia and film firm, Planet Media Cinemas, has announced plans to screen a recently released Hollywood movie set in Kenya which features the terrorism challenges in the East and Horn of Africa. As part of Planet Media -a division of Nakumatt Holdings- strategic efforts to ensure the local release of global box office hits on […]
Orange has announced the acquisition of a US $ 85.5 Million equity interest in Africa Internet Group, joining AXA, Goldman Sachs and longstanding investors MTN Group, Millicom and Rocket Internet. Through this investment, which will be accompanied by a series of strategic partnerships between the subsidiaries of the two groups, Orange will help Jumia and […]
Oracle is set to host an Oracle Cloud Day event to showcase the firm’s fully integrated stack of cloud applications, platform services, and engineered systems. Set to be held on April 14, 2016, the Oracle Cloud Day will be implemented by connecting more than 30 countries from the East to the West of Africa, live across 4 […]