MTN Uganda on Friday handed over cash prizes worth Shs66 millions to nine winners of the recently concluded MTN Open API Challenge...
Mobile money was introduced in 2009 and it has since generated a ton of business ideas for many Ugandans. One of the...
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data. The...
Now that you know how to back up phone contacts to your Google account, let’s also show you how to restore the...
Pan-African e-commerce firm Jumia has announced that Mastercard has agreed, subject to certain conditions, to become an investor and form a strategic...
National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has called on Ugandans to always closely examine their national IDs before signing for them to...
African innovators can now apply for the 2020 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, a competition organized by The UK’s Royal Academy of...
4K resolution is pretty much the standard for televisions now but there’s a new resolution that is starting to flood the market....
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has directed all the telecom companies to verify the identities of their subscribers who have multiple Sim...
Ride-hailing firm Bolt has announced plans to launch a food delivery service, a few weeks after rebranding from Taxify. According to Markus...
African entrepreneurs can now apply for the Africa Netpreneur Prize. The $10 million program, funded by the Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, officially opened...
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When you move your phone contacts to a digital storage space like Gmail, you’re sure that you can always retrieve them when...
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation,” Arthur Robert Ashe Jr., said. As the quote...
Solarcentury, an integrated solar power company with operations across Europe, Latin America, and Africa, has commissioned two solar-hybrid mini-grids, bringing power to...
Subscribers of MTN now have an option of purchasing airtime and data bundles from the telecom giant through WhatsApp. The move, which...
Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has switched off eight radio stations, including Voice of Teso, which belongs to Captain Mike Mukula, the NRM...
Nigerian logistics firm Kobo360 has beaten other powerful African firms including Jumia, Africa’s Talking, Baobab+ and Intouch to be named “Disrupter of...
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SwapAfrica, an online barter trade platform, is among over 100 Ugandan startups that have been shortlisted for the fifth cycle of the...
The startup sector in Uganda attracted the least funding in the East African region, according to a 2018 report by Partech Africa...
MTN Uganda has announced nine projects that performed well in the MTN Open API App Challenge. The nine were part of 23...
Kobo360, a Nigerian-based technology logistics platform, has announced that it is expanding its operations to Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya. The Monday...
US ride-hailing giant Uber’s acquisition of Dubai-based rival Careem Networks FZ could be completed on Tuesday this week. This website reported in...
There are several reasons as to why you would want to replace a passport: it could be damaged/mutilated, you could have lost...
Pulse Africa has suspended the operations of online publisher, Pulse Live Uganda, a year after launching it in the East African nation....
MTN Kamunye, a 3G smart feature phone running on Kai-operating system has been introduced in the Uganda market by telecommunications giant MTN...
MTN Uganda has declared vacant positions of three senior executives who were deported by Ugandan authorities in February for engaging in subversive...
Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pornography Control Committee (PCC) that will see the two...
Ugandan-grown payments firm Xente has expanded its operations to Nigeria, making the populous west African nation its first international unit. The company...
Bwala Africa Group Limited, a logistics marketplace based in Kenya, has expanded its operations to Uganda, making the East African nation its...
National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) has said the national ID registration exercise that is currently being conducted at sub-county level will run...
Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) was warned users of the messaging service WhatsApp to be wary of hackers that have mastered the art...
Telecom giant MTN Group plans to launch a new instant messaging (IM) platform this year. MTN Smart T, which supports applications like...
Every phone owner has at least been interrupted or re-routed to another link by ads or unwanted pop-ups that you click on....
Simba Group Chief of Staff Bitature Nataliey has advice every millennial needs to consider. She says the world is better than it...
Sylvia Kyomuhendo and Harrison Okello, the founders of Infants’ Health Foundation, have been invited by the World Health Organization to share their...
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Uber Lite, a light version of the Uber application has been rolled out in Uganda to cater to people with a poor...
Ugandan payments company Xente has rolled out its application to iOS users to cash in on the growing number of people using...
Anne Rweyora was among innovators from Africa that were honored by Prince Andrew, the Duke of York for showcasing impressive innovations at...
If you have ever accidentally deleted contacts or lost your device without backing up your contacts, I suppose you know how hurting...
Ugandan payments company Swipe2pay is among the 12 startups from Africa that have been selected for the third cohort of Google Launchpad Africa...
Ricky Papa Thomson is among a few entrepreneurs from Africa and the Middle East that were honoured by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the...
SafeBoda has reintroduced 50% discounts to maintain its competitive edge in the Ugandan ride-hailing market. This comes a few weeks after the...
By Feliks Eyser I never thought I’d end up in a wooden box at age 31, but here I am, surrounded by timber....
Boomplay, the largest music streaming and download service in Africa, has signed a direct licensing agreement with Warner Music to bring the...
Porn555.com has overtaken once popular sites like xideos.com and pornhub.com to become the most visited porn site in Uganda, according to Alexa...
President of France Emmanuel Macron has revealed that his government is set to invest 2.5 billion euros in African businesses through a...
In 2016, George Ssenyange was one of the two students that were accepted at Yale University under the research institution’s International Medical...
Gura, a transportation network company based in Rwanda, is set to roll out electric bikes and scooters to tap into the country’s...
Just as you need specific USSD codes to access some features on our phone, the Yaka meter has also been programmed to...
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to countries with the cheapest and most expensive mobile data in the world, a new report indicates. According...
Liquid Telecom and Microsoft Gold Partner on Wednesday announced the availability of Microsoft Azure across its pan-African network, approaching 70,000km and stretching...
Google has rolled out YouTube Premium and YouTube Music in South Africa, the first time they are doing it in Africa, as...
Jaguza Tech Uganda founder Ronald Katamba is among a few African founders that have been picked to present their projects to thousands...
Former Executive Director of Uganda Media Centre (UMC) Fred Opolot is among the people that have been appointed to the new board...
President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday met with some of the top brass from the MTN Group at the Africa Now Summit, a...
Pan-African e-Commerce startup Jumia has applied for public listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), effectively becoming the first African startup...
Customers of Kenya telecom giant Safaricom will now be able to transact business on Chinese e-commerce platform AliExpress (Aliexpress.com) using M-Pesa thanks...
Police in Kampala have arrested a man who has been on the run for nearly three years after allegedly hacking into e-mail...
Africell has reintroduced Swift social bundles which had been scrapped following the introduction of social media taxes also known as OTT taxes....
Dr. Misaki Wayengera, a researcher attached to the Department of Pathology at Makerere University’s College of Health Sciences, has cruised to the...
Two organizations — Ampion and Plutos Ventures Holding– have teamed up to form a venture capital firm dubbed Ampion Ventures with the...
Now that you know how to pay Yaka using mobile money and how to load the token on the Yaka meter, let’s...
Metu Zhoungtong Industries, the company that is assembling buses in Uganda, has revealed that its automobiles will each cost at least Shs400...
These days a national ID is a very crucial instrument since you need to apply for an ePassport, get a new sim...
Ingressive Capital, a venture capital firm based in Sub-Saharan, is searching for tech-enabled companies based in the aforementioned region to support financially...
When you buy a computer, one of the biggest worries, as you use it, is it being attacked by viruses. Just as...
East African governments have introduced digital passports and this article will show you how to apply for an ePassport in Uganda. There...
Applications for Class 5 of the eFounders Fellowship are now open to entrepreneurs from Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. Founders...
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Bolt Uganda, formerly known as Taxify Uganda, has added new people to its operations team, growing the headcount to four, according to...
One Finance Limited (OneFi) announced Friday that it had secured a $5M debt facility for its consumer-facing platform, Paylater. The facility comes...
Yaka is a prepaid service Umeme introduced to ease collection of revenue and allow people to manage and control how they spend...
There are two processes you can use to pay OTT tax on Airtel. In one process, you only buy OTT tax on...
National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) has shifted its office in Kampala Central to Plot 62 on Lumumba Avenue. The Authority announced the...
MTN Group has introduced smart feature phones – Ikosora and MTN Smart T – to its units in Rwanda and Nigeria respectively....
Police in Kenya are hunting for Velox 10 Global, a bitcoin company that disappeared with hundreds of millions of shillings of its...
The National Information Technology Authority – Uganda (NITA-U) is conducting a National Cyber Security Risk Assessment (NCRA) campaign. Cybersecurity risk assessment is...
From now on, Taxify will be called Bolt, the Estonian-based ride-hailing firm announced in a statement on Thursday. According to the statement,...
MTN Group has announced plans to launch its own music streaming service and new applications to increase its revenue and improve the...
Former NTV Uganda news anchor Rachael Mwine is now working with Andela Uganda as a learning facilitator, SautiTech has learnt. Mwine left...
Winners of the 2019 Startupper of the Year, an innovation challenge organized by French oil and gas company Total in Uganda, have...
A new coworking space called The Hub has been opened in Kampala, joining a growing list of tech hubs and co-working spaces...
Bonny Iga Madrawi who has been the chief financial officer at Intership Uganda is now the head of operations. The development comes...
German automaker Volkswagen has launched Move app in Kigali, beating Uber, Taxify and Little Cab to Rwanda’s budding ride-sharing market. Uber, which was...
Ugandan-grown software company Cinnamon Clubs has appointed seasoned IT professional Wilson Cristancho to its board as an advisor. Cristancho, who has more...
Two firms, SAP and Google Cloud, have put together funds to organize an innovation challenge aimed at developing solutions that will drive...
The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity (FRP) on Monday announced that five African firms will receive a total of US$4,438,551 to...
American online payments startup Stripe has signaled intention to expand its operations in Africa and the Middle East by moving to hire...
The value of Uber Technologies Inc. is set to plummet with the potential acquisition of Careem Networks FZ, another transportation network company...
Wim Vanhelleputte, a chief executive officer of MTN Uganda who was thrown out of the country mid-February — has dragged the attorney...
The Ugandan Academy for Health Innovation and Impact has announced the second edition of the Health Innovations Conference which will take place...
Dennis Kahindi Keko has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Liquid Telecom Uganda. According to a statement announcing his appointment,...
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Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Matia Kasaija has endorsed the National Payment Policy for Uganda which is expected to be...
Jumia, Africa’s leading e-commerce platform, has inked a deal with Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi to distribute its entry-level smartphone Redmi Go in...
SafeBoda Kenya has unveiled a new promotion where customers will get a 50% discount on every trip. The promotion, however, applies only...
President Yoweri Museveni will again meet the MTN Group Chief Executive Officer Rob Shuter, just a month after their last encounter in...
Kenyan-based ride-hailing firm Little Cab has announced Tanzania and Ghana as the African countries it will be expanding to in the coming...