Asilimia, a startup that is building the digital infrastructure to connect African MSMEs to the formal financial economy, has secured $2 million to grow its team, deliver new services and expand into new markets in East Africa. The startup raised $1 million in pre-seed funding from a wide range of investors, including two-time unicorn founder, […]
TikTok has introduced a new in-app information hub to educate TikTok community on gender-based violence to mark this year’s 16 Days of Activism. The new feature starts from the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls on 25 November and concludes on International Human Rights Day on 10 December. The short […]
Twitter introduces new feature dubbed fleets which is similar to stories on Snapchat and Instagram allowing users to share fleeting or transitory thoughts which disappears after 24 hours. The social media platform with more than 330 million users allows users to share personal in-the-moment thoughts with your followers free of public reactions. The fleets are […]
COVID-19 just didn’t change the way the world connected or indulged in business. It also changed the traditional classroom setting to be online and remote. Some teachers across the globe are using technology in the most innovative way to make remote learning interesting for their students sitting at home. These teachers have come up with […]
Google Classroom is a collaboration app for teachers and students allowing Teachers, professors and other education professionals to create an online classroom and invite students to class. The free web service developed by Google for schools aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments online. Educators can easily create a google classroom to manage students […]
I&M Bank Kenya has partnered with Backbase, to develop a digital platform dubbed I&M On The Go (OTG) that aims to enhance its digital banking experience and offerings. The move is part of I&M’s strategic intent to improve its customers’ experience to digital banking services. I&M On The Go (OTG) will support customers to access all […]
Safaricom and the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) launched the NHIF mini-app within the M-PESA Super App. The NHIF mini-app will provide all NHIF services through the Super App, empowering customers to access services wherever they may be without visiting NHIF offices or downloading a separate app. Payment and account reconciliation services are already live on […]
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Monday evening have been hit by an outage as users cannot be able to access the services. The outage, lasting hours has seen users logging tens of thousands of outage reports for all three platforms from around the world. The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work but did not show […]
Today, Opera is launching a new version of its chat service, Hype. The key highlight of Hype 1.3 is the Find new Friends feature, which allows users to easily meet new people within the app. Hype is the first African-inspired chat service built into a mobile browser, Opera Mini, allowing users to easily set up an account […]
Netflix has launched a new free mobile plan in Kenya allowing users to watch a limited selection of its catalog, including full seasons of select shows. The new free offer allows Kenyans on Android devices to watch Netflix for as long as they want without paying a subscription fee. Netflix unlocked its service in Kenya […]