MultiChoice Uganda has relieved Phoebe Nakabazzi of her duties as the company’s head of marketing. According to ChimpReports, which quotes a statement...
MP4 format is one of the most commonly supported video formats usable over a wide range of devices from smartphones to game...
A new consumer payment product for Africa has been launched, courtesy of Fintech startup Flutterwave and Visa, reports TechCrunch. Dubbed GetBarter, the...
Jackie Ochola is the country director for Andela Uganda. Before joining the training and placement company for software developers, the electrical engineer...
Airtel Uganda Managing Director VG Somasekhar has said the telecom company paid corporate tax for the first time in 2018, having registered...
India-based telecommunication company Bharti Airtel is currently engaged in talks to buy Telkom Kenya in a bid to cement its operations in...
Telecommunications company Africell Uganda has inked a deal with Beyonic, a digital platform that allows businesses and big institutions to collect bulk...
African Renewable Energy Distributors (ARED) Group has embarked on expanding its footprint in Rwanda and Uganda by rolling out more smart kiosks so...
Telecommunication giant Airtel’s Ugandan unit is set to incur higher operating costs as authorities move to implement new changes in the telecom...
By Andrew Hutchinson We’re now a year on from Facebook’s major News Feed re-focus, which aimed to put more emphasis on personal engagement,...
Dfcu Bank received US$30 million (about Shs111 billion) from two European firms — Proparco and the Dutch development bank or FMO, to...
Lycamobile, a United Kingdom-based telecommunications company is laying the groundwork ahead of its launch in Uganda, betting on a market that saw...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced an investment of US$7.5 million in Africa Tech Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Kenya....
By Nathan Mendenhall Social media marketing is a very odd thing. On one hand, social media is a medium which enables brands...
KaiOS Technologies, a company that develops KaiOS, an operating system optimized for smart feature phones has established strategic partnerships that could significantly...
By Annie Bricker Africa is in a constant battle against its colossal geographic scale, political unrest, and lack of legacy infrastructure, creating a...
Demand for the traditional feature phones has continued to rise despite the existence of the more customized smartphones, statistics show. Data released...
By Stephen Obeli I want to be honest with you today; many of us doing social media marketing in this year are...
By Pius Muhumuza I can’t claim to be an expert in car tracking, let alone Telematics but I sure do know enough...
Cosmas Ndugga, the founder of The Cosmas Foundation Uganda, a non-profit organization, is the winner of the US $500 grant put up...
Fintech International Limited has rolled out a new generation of smart point of sale (POS) terminals that are aimed at increasing efficiency...
Global money transfer agency WorldRemit has struck a deal with Addis International Bank, which is based in Ethiopia, to boost online money...
American streaming giant Netflix is closing in on its plan of producing original African continent, headlining with a South African drama series...
A new electronic commerce company StarMartz has set up shop in Rwanda, eyeing to cash in on the growing online payment space...
By Zander Nethercutt The year was 1957, and Pepsi — like many of the youth at that time — was dealing with an...
When you want to attract the attention of a particular market, you either bring to them what they (or you) think they...
The government of Rwanda has resumed its project to give laptop loans to students after shelving it for a while due to...
Rwanda’s penchant for Information and Communication Technology has gone a notch higher with the launch of a web-based video streaming channel that...
Swedish Fintech Okapi Finance has partnered with Ecobank to enable seamless transfer of money between the two companies in Kenya, with the...
Global IT company Hewlett-Packard (HP) has rolled out a technology incubation and entrepreneurship training hub dubbed HP LIFE Center in South Africa....
In 2015, Kenneth Bintu’s friend was robbed at knifepoint. Bintu’s friend had boarded a Taxi headed to Busega, a Kampala suburb, not...
Kenya’s digital payments company Cellulant has announced plans to set up an application programming interface (API) that will enable a single online...
After a series of events that included workshops, film screenings, and exhibitions, the 2018 Uganda Film Festival climaxed on November 30 with...
Kenya’s Family Bank has partnered with SimbaPay, a London based Fintech, to start a fast, affordable money transfer service from the East...
Government has created one central online data center with a view to avoiding duplication of information and wastage of resources. Managed by...
Smile Communications Uganda has introduced special data packages that will be enjoyed by customers during the festive season. The offer targets people...
Africell Uganda social media manager Paul Mugume has been named among the most influential technology bloggers in the world by the data...
The puzzle of maintaining privacy in they cyberworld remains exceedingly hard to crack. Just a few days ago, European authorities discovered that...
Yego Innovision Ltd, an ICT solutions company based in Kigali, has introduced hailing of rides using a feature phone to improve the...
The ride-hailing industry in Uganda is continuously growing and more players continue to enter the market. There are more than 10,000 drivers...
Crypto Chain University has appointed John Kamara, the director of Global Gaming Africa, to champion technological arts in African countries such as...
A new ride-hailing app called PikiMe has started doing business in Kampala, joining other digital transport services in the market. PikiMe was...
Security is an important aspect of online communication, which is why we all need to feel secure and know that private information...
In 2014, SafeBoda opened the door to the ride-hailing industry in Kampala, Uganda. SafeBoda started with five riders. Ricky Papa Thomson, a...
The fintech sector is one of, if not the most, competitive segment of the technology industry. This implies that for a fintech...
President Yoweri Museveni has approved the Excise Duty (Amendment) (No.2) Act, 2018, implying that the proposed a controversial 0.5% tax on mobile...
Government only collected Shs20.5 billion from social media tax between July and September, failing to beat the Shs24.9 billion target for the...
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has collected Shs103 billion from mobile money tax out of the targeted Shs151.5b in the first quarter...
Good afternoon and welcome to November SautiTech readers. But before you kick off with your November plans, let’s first do a recap...
When you Google about the richest people in Uganda, the names Patrick Bitature and Sudhir Ruparelia feature prominently. In 2012, their families...
Humphrey Nabimanya, the founder and team leader at Reach A Hand Uganda has received a certification of recognition from United Nations Uganda....
By Daniel Odaka Every urban radio station in Kampala today has an online listening option. It could be on a third-party smartphone...
By Julius Masaba The other day my partner asked me; “Julius, am seeing so many Funds in Uganda. Does it mean there...
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has ordered television broadcasters to provide sign language interpreters and subtitles in major programmes to cater for...
Ron Kawamara has been appointed the chief executive officer for Jumia Uganda, according to a press statement released on Thursday. The position...
Mobile applications are not yet so popular in the telecommunications industry in Uganda and most people still use USSD codes to access...
Flutterwave, a payments API (Application programming interface) that makes it easier for global merchants, payment service providers and Pan African banks to...
Telecom companies in Uganda might be few but choosing the right service provider (SIM card) for you is as complex as it...
The Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF), a service fund that was rolled out in 2013 to ensure that underserved areas in Uganda...
In 2010, Hive Colab opened its doors for startups in Uganda, with a vision of “cultivating and scaling ideas with positive social...
By Recode Google is pushing deeper into Stories, the photo and video montages that Snapchat created and Facebook popularized after it copied...
A fresh breed of scammers has hit the mobile money sector, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has cautioned. The most common trick...
By George Aine Uganda has been ranked number one on the Africa continent in cybersecurity management, a new report indicates. According to...
National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has said it did not issue the statement that has been circulating online that they will...
The grand ceremony to recognize the winners in the 2018 Digital Impact Awards Africa went down Friday evening at the Kampala Serena...
Samsung’s highly touted and supposedly fireproof Galaxy Note 9 cell phone spontaneously combusted inside a Long Island woman’s purse, she charges in...
Financial institutions in Uganda and the entire East African region have been urged to embrace FinTechs to achieve financial inclusion. According to...
By George Aine Cabinet has approved the National Broadband Policy, putting in place stringent laws to be followed by telecom and broadband...
In May of this year, ChapChap Africa unveiled new features they had added to their flagship product, the ChapChap Merchant application. With...
By George Aine Uganda’s largest pharmaceutical company Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited (CiplaQCIL) on Monday listed its 657,179,319 shares on the Uganda...
A new ride-hailing company has announced it will be launching its services in Uganda this year, entering a market that is currently...
When buying internet data bundles, telecom companies always indicate the period in which you have to use that package before it’s rendered...
Julianne Rwakooko Mweheire is now the Director Industry Affairs and Content Development at the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC). The position fell vacant...
By Techpoint.africa In your wildest dreams, have you ever imagined downloading HD movies in seconds? Well, theoretically it is possible with 5G....
Telecom companies in Uganda were tasked by the government to restrict access to social media platforms following the implementation of a new...
By Daniel Odaka Before I begin I would like to drop a disclaimer that this is not a rant or a protest...
Wi-Fi routers come with predefined user information such as Wi-Fi keys that are quite difficult to cram. Each time a user wishes...
As Muslims celebrated Eid al-Adha on Tuesday, several companies and organizations, through social media, sent out their wishes using graphics. Below we...
Necessity is the mother of invention’ is among the first proverbs we’re introduced to in our elementary stages of education. The rationale...
Telecoms in Uganda haven’t yet added an option that allows users to buy airtime for any network. All networks only allow users...
Poor waste management is increasingly becoming a big problem in many countries in Africa. Just here in Kampala, the effects are poor...
By George Aine The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Brig. Muzeeyi Sabiiti, has urged the Chinese government to help the Uganda Police...
Most universities are opening for their 2018/2019 academic year this week. To continuing students, it’s mostly business as usual, but for those...
By ZDNet The challenges of making a handheld device receive several simultaneous signals from sub-millimeter wave frequencies remain extraordinary. They’re as daunting,...
Ever been stranded during an awkward time with no mobile money agent around to come to your rescue? Or perhaps you need...
By Reuters T-Mobile US named Nokia to supply it with $3.5 billion in next-generation 5G network gear, the firms said, marking the...
Many smartphone manufacturers have chosen to rely on low-priced smartphones to increase sales and market share. In Uganda, low-priced smartphone manufacturers like...
Items belonging to embattled Telecom operator Vodafone Uganda were put on auction on Thursday at its former head offices in Kamwokya, Kampala....
By George Aine The country is losing billions of shillings in taxes on mobile money after Bank of Uganda (BoU) officials on...
On Tuesday, Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, in a glamorous ceremony, celebrated twenty-five years since he was installed as the king of Buganda...
In some developing countries, especially those in semi-arid areas, water sources are few and far between which has limited water availability. However,...
By TechCrunch Opera is now a public company. The Norway-based company priced its initial public offering at $12 a share — the...
Buganda Kingdom has joined forces with telecommunications company Airtel Uganda to breathe a new life into K2 Telecom which was in May...
Routers today have become a household necessity. This is because the internet has become a basic need among individuals. With the presence...
By George Aine ZMTN revolt decoder, a South African-based streaming TV network, has announced plans to launch its services in Uganda with...
By Reuters Egypt is setting up a sovereign wealth fund with a capital of 200 billion Egyptian pounds ($11 billion), the state...
Raxio Data Centre Ltd, a United Stated company announced Monday that it was constructing a modern data center in Namanve Industrial Park,...
By Reuters Kenya’s Safaricom is in advanced talks with the Ethiopian government to introduce its popular M-Pesa mobile money service, a major step...
By George Aine Tourism continues to be a pillar of Uganda’s economy, contributing nearly Shs7.3b to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the...
Kampala Capital City Authority has finally revealed the amount of money it will spend on the winners in the innovation competition it...
The mobile money tax that came into effect on the first day of this month continues to take an extensive toll on...
Ten years ago while working in Madagascar on a project that networking and telecommunications giant Ericsson was executing in the island country,...