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Startups
Kenyan Startups invited to apply for this year’s DataHack4FI competition
Nairobi Garage is calling on Kenyan startups to apply for the for this years DataHack4FI competition with the winning team…
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BUSINESS
Jumia’s J-Force program creating jobs for young entrepreneurs
Juma Cheja, a Nairobi based business man is one of the sales agents who has benefited from Jumia’s J-Force program.…
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News
OPPO partners with Qualcomm, announces plans to launch 5G Devices in 2019
OPPO has announced a new partnership with Qualcomm Technologies in to explore ways toward mobile technology innovations in the 5G…
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News
Its official, the Galaxy S9 is coming on February 25
We can now officially confirm that Samsung will be launching the Galaxy S9 on February 25th. Samsung is sending out…
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BUSINESS
Investment in tracking technologies should be a key focus for business
In today’s society, technology has been changing at an unprecedented pace. When you consider that tablets sales are now about…
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News
Tecno launches the Tecno Camon CM, available on Jumia for Ksh.16,999
TECNO Mobile has been teasing the Camon CM, its latest device in the Camon series for a while now. In…
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BUSINESS
National Bank of Kenya loses Ksh.29 Million to hackers.
The National Bank of Kenya has lost about Ksh.29 million to hackers. The hacking incident is said to have happened…
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BUSINESS
Mobile Money users in Kenya to start sending money across networks in March.
Safaricom and Airtel will on Monday 22nd January pilot mobile money interoperability across their networks awaiting the full roll-out in…
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News
Ringier Africa signs pan-African digital content agreement with The New York Times
Ringier Africa Digital Publishing (RADP) has entered into a new digital content license agreement with The New York Times News…
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BUSINESS
Kenya Airways starts ticket sales for its non-stop daily flight to New York
National carrier Kenya Airways has become the first airline to start offering direct flights from East Africa to New York.…
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News
Huawei to launch Mate 10 Pro in February
Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) has announced that its breakthrough HUAWEI Mate 10 Pro will be available from February. The…
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News
Nokia 5 Quick Review: A classy device running on Android
I have been interacting with the Nokia 5 for a while now. Remember the device was among the Android Nokia…
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News
Opera’s new Kenyan office to serve as East Africa’s hub
Opera, the developer of popular Opera Mini and Opera browsers, have set an office in Kenya. Techweez reports that the…
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Gadgets
Nokia 3310 4G version is coming
HMD Global is releasing a new version of the Nokia 3310 with 4G. The new version was spotted by Nokiamob…
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Reviews
OPPO F5 Review: All about the selfies
We have told you so much about the OPPO F5 already. The flagship device from OPPO Mobile was launched in…
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Reviews
NOKIA 5 First impression: Nokia pulled off a nice design
The Nokia 5 was among the 3 devices that HMD Global unveiled in Kenya back in July this year in…
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Gadgets
Infinix ZERO 5 Review: Its Big, Powerful With Great Cameras
The Infinix ZERO 5 was launched a couple of weeks ago in the country. Prior to this launch, Infinix had…
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24BIt
24Bit – Listen and subscribe to our latest Podcast
24Bit is an ongoing conversation around technology trends between tech bloggers. Every weekend we gather around to talk about interesting happenings…
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Gadgets
OPPO launches OPPO F5 6GB Christmas Red Edition as OPPO F5 Youth goes on sale Countrywide
OPPO Kenya has today unveiled the OPPO F5 6GB Christmas Red Edition that comes with more RAM and storage capacity.…
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News
Alternative Circle co-founder Anthony Kariuki resigns over sexual misconduct
Anthony Kariuki, one of the co-founders of Alternative Circle has resigned from the company. Anthony resigned from the company following…
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News
Siemens and Rotan Power sign agreement for power plant project in Ghana
Siemens has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Rotan Power to build a power plant in Ghana. Under this…
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Social Media
Twitter’s new ‘Threads’ Feature is now available for everyone
On Tuesday, Twitter announced that it was launching a new feature that will allow users to easily post tweetstorms. The…
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Reviews
TECNO Phantom 8 Review: Classic Design, Great Camera and Performance
I have been interacting with the Tecno Phantom 8 for two weeks now. The device was launched close to a…
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News
Walt Disney acquires 21st Century Fox for $52.4B in stock
The internet has been full of rumors that entertainment company Walt Disney was planning to buy off 21st Century. Well,…
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News
Samsung’s Notebook 9 Pen, Notebook 9 (2018) new Laptops come with 8th-Gen Intel Core i7 Chips
Samsung has today announced the launch of the new Samsung Notebook 9 Pen and three new versions of the Samsung…
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CYBER SECURITY
ESET Releases 2018 Report: Predicts Trends in Cybersecurity
Global cybersecurity services leader ESET has warned that the ransomware menace is likely to continue into 2018 with further growth…
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Social Media
Facebook is now offering free audio tracks and sound effects for video makers.
Are you a content creator and always worried about uploading videos on Facebook or Instagram that contains copyrighted music? Well,…
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BUSINESS
WorldRemit raises $40m, seeks to target 5 million customers in Africa
Digital money transfer service WorldRemit has raised $40m to drive its next phase of global growth. The series C round…
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CYBER SECURITY
Female Journalists in Kenya to be trained on online safety
With more users now spending time online, the ways they can get compromised on the internet have gotten more numerous…
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Reviews
Tecno Phantom 8 first impression, pricing and availability in Kenya
The Tecno Phantom 8 was launched in October in Dubai, the second global launch Tecno Mobile was doing as it…
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Gadgets
HMD Global launches its cheapest device in Kenya, The Nokia 2 for Kshs.11,000
HMD Global has announced that The Nokia 2, its cheapest Android device is now available for purchase in Kenya. The…
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Reviews
Infinix ZERO 5 Unboxing and first impressions (Pictures), Pricing and Availability
The Infinix ZERO 5 was launched a couple of weeks ago in Dubai. The launch was the first international launch…
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News
Kenya’s GrassRoots Bima named among best fintech innovators in the world.
GrassRoots Bima, a Kenyan technology company has been named among the top Fintech firms in the world in 2017. The…
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Gadgets
Huawei Mate 10 specs, price and availability in Kenya
The Huawei Mate 10 was officially launched into the Kenyan market last week, a month after it was unveiled in…
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News
Andela Kenya reaches out to aspiring developers in different counties
Andela Kenya is now reaching out to aspiring developers outside Nairobi. The tech company that trains developers in Africa and…
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Gadgets
The OPPO F5 is Now Available For Pre-Order From Safaricom
The OPPO F5 is now available for pre-order in the country. OPPO has announced that device, which was launched in…
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News
You can now place your Jumia Black Friday orders via USSD
Jumia is for the first time accepting Black Friday orders by USSD from customers. What this means is, customers can…
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Social Media
Twitter now lets you create much longer display names – 50 characters
Twitter has really been preoccupied with making everything lengthy lately. Just the other day it finally rolled out the 280…
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News
Mastercard launches #Girls4Tech programme to Drive Interest in STEM among Girls in Kenya
Mastercard has launched a new programme aimed at driving interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) among girls in…
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BUSINESS
InterSat sets up teleport services in Nairobi, to provide broadband internet in Africa.
Global Satellite solutions provider InterSat has announced the setting up of its teleport services in Nairobi to launch broadband internet…
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News
Nokia and Vodacom sign MoU to conduct 5G trials in South Africa
Nokia and Vodacom have signed an MoU to conduct Nokia 5G technology trials in South Africa. The trial is also part…
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News
OPPO is launching the OPPO F5 in Kenya on November 20th
OPPO Kenya has announced that it will be launching the new OPPO F5 smartphone in Kenya on 20th November. The…
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BUSINESS
Kenya’s opposition party NASA asks its supporters to boycott Safaricom
Kenya’s opposition party NASA has called on its supporters to boycott Safaricom products and services. The move comes after Raila…
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Social Media
How to delete messages you sent by mistake on WhatsApp
You probably have read about WhatsApp ’s latest feature that will now allow you to delete a message sent by…
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BUSINESS
Kenya among Sub-Saharan African economies that set new record in reforming their business climate
Kenya is among the Sub-Saharan African economies that set a new record in reforming their business climate. This is according…
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News
HMD Global launches the Nokia 2 for $115, here are the specs
HMD Global, the home of Nokia has announced the launch of the Nokia 2. The low-cost smartphone was unveiled on…
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Gadgets
Tecno Phantom 8 Specifications and price in Kenya
Tecno Mobile launched the much-hyped Tecno Phantom 8 recently in Dubai on 22nd October. We had told you so much…
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Social Media
Facebook is testing a subscription tool for Instant Articles on Android
Well, most of you probably saw this coming from Facebook but yes, the company is testing a news subscription tool…
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Gadgets
The Tecno Phantom 8 is launching on 22nd October
By now you must have seen Tecno Mobile teasing its next Phantom, the Tecno Phantom 8 and the Phantom 8…
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News
Samsung CEO Kwon Oh-hyun to Resign over ‘Unprecedented Crisis’ at the company
Samsung Electronics CEO Kwon Oh-hyun, who is also the vice chairman and head of the company’s Device Solutions Business has…
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News
Kenyan Startup Lori Systems wins TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2017
The winners of the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2017 have been announced. The winners were selected from 15 startups from…
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News
Andela raises a further $40 Million in new round of funding
It’s less than two weeks since Andela announced a new partnership with Google to launch the Andela Learning Community (ALC…
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BUSINESS
DHL, MallforAfrica partner to sell Made-in-Africa products in the United States
DHL Express has announced a new partnership with e-commerce company MallforAfrica to facilitate the selling of made-in-Africa products to customers…
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Startups
6 Kenyan Startups among the DEMO Africa 2017 30 finalists
6 Startups from Kenya have made it to the list of the final 35 startups from 28 African countries that…
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News
The Nokia 8 is now available in Kenya for Ksh.60,000
The Nokia 8 has started selling in Kenya a month after the phone was launched globally. HMD Global has announced…
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BUSINESS
Jumia ‘Price Hero’ campaign is offering deals of up to 50% off
Jumia Kenya has launched a new campaign that will see consumers buy products online at the lowest price ever. Dubbed…
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BUSINESS
Report: Smartphone integrated real-time data driving demand for fleet management services
A recent study by Transparency Market Research (TMR) on the global IoT fleet management market has found that smartphone integrated real-time data…
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News
Mid-range OPPO A71 launches in Kenya for Ksh. 19,999/=.
A couple of weeks ago we told you that OPPO was planning to launch yet another smartphone in the Kenyan…
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News
Andela partners with Google to launch the Andela Learning Community (ALC 2.0) program in Kenya
Andela has announced the launch of the Andela Learning Community (ALC 2.0) program in Kenya. The program (ALC 1.0), which…
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News
Safaricom, CA dismiss NASA claims that the telecommunications operator helped rig August polls.
Telecommunications operator Safaricom has dismissed claims by Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga that it was complicit in manipulating the August…
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Social Media
Twitter want to expand tweets from 140 to 280 characters
Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280. The company has announced that it has started testing the…
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BUSINESS
Youtap launches mobile money payment processing platform as a cloud-based service
Youtap has launched a new payment processing platform delivered as a cloud service for mobile money and payments providers in…
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BUSINESS
2017 Jumia Black Friday sale to run from November 13 to December 13
The 2017 edition of the Jumia Black Friday is here. Dubbed ‘31 Days of Deals’, the sale will begin on…
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24BIt
24Bit Episode One – Lets Talk About Blogging.
TechTrendsKE has been in existence for a while now, let me just say it has been close to five years…
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News
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#AfricaCom2017: New #IoT conference stream added to AfricaCom agenda
Recognising the role the Internet of Things (IoT) will play in redefining our world, especially across Africa, AfricaCom 2017 has…
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BUSINESS
Kenya’s Entertainment and Media Industry worth US$2.1 billion in 2016, to hit US$3 billion mark in 2020.
The Entertainment and Media Industry in Kenya was worth US$2.1 billion in 2016, up 13.6% in 2015. This is according…
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BUSINESS
Jumia wants to shorten delivery time within Kenya with Jumia Express
You will from now onwards enjoy faster delivery time after ordering something on Jumia. The e-commerce site has announced the…
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News
Samsung has already received pre-orders for 200 units for the Galaxy Note 8 in Kenya
Over the two-week period since Samsung opened pre-orders for the Galaxy Note 8 the company says it has received orders…
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Startups
iHub, World Bank to host one-week bootcamp for startups from East Africa
As part of part of a business acceleration program to help East African tech start-ups commercialize and scale innovative digital…
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Gadgets
Samsung has launched the Galaxy J7 Neo in Kenya for Kshs. 21,999.
Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy J7 Neo smartphone in the market in what the company says is to offer consumers…
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News
Nokia wants to ease mobile operators entry into IoT market
Nokia has announced that it’s expanding its Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) to make it easier for mobile operators to…
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Reviews
Infinix NOTE 4 Pro Review: Xpen, Larger Battery and everything you need to know.
Introduction So I have been interacting with the Infinix NOTE 4 Pro for some time now and I must…
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BUSINESS
Regional and international experts gather in Nairobi to discuss the future of payments in the region.
The 2017 Seamless East Africa conference kicked off in Nairobi today, bringing together regional and international experts to discuss the…
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BUSINESS
iflix launches its Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) service in Kenya
Internet TV service for emerging markets iflix has finally launched its services in Kenya. The launch comes just weeks after…
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Reviews
Infinix NOTE 4 Pro Unboxing and First Impressions
Infinix Mobile finally launched the Infinix NOTE 4 Pro, which we had so much talked about. Infinix partnered with Kilimall…
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News
Report: Consumer popularity of Samsung phones sored as TV and laptop business reaped less during elections period
Consumer popularity of Samsung phones soared the whole of Q2 2017, beating HTC. The value of Samsung mobile phones as…
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BUSINESS
Nairobi County going cashless, Governor Mike Sonko announces
Governor Mike Sonko has announced plans to fully automate cash flow within all Nairobi County Systems. The plan according to…
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Social Media
Facebook and Instagram were down yesterday, here’s why
Most of you probably did not notice this but Facebook and Instagram were temporarily down for a few hours yesterday.…
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BUSINESS
Rebecca Miano appointed acting KenGen MD and CEO
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has appointed Rebecca Miano as its acting MD and CEO. Mrs. Miano takes over from Albert Mugo who…
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News
Oppo F3 Barcelona edition with 18K gold-plated club insignia is launching in Kenya.
OPPO has announced that it will be launching a special Oppo F3 Barcelona edition in Kenya soon. The smartphone has…
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News
The new iTel P51 smartphone is powered by a massive 5000 mAh Battery
Chinese smartphone manufacturers iTel Mobile released a new smartphone, The iTel P51 in the Kenyan market early this month for…
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BUSINESS
Telematics technology helping businesses to make significant savings
Telematics technology is revolutionizing the fleet management industry across the world. The technology is playing a key role in reducing resource…
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News
Battle of the Brands: Infinix vs Tecno.
Let us just agree that Tecno and Infinix Mobile are some of the most popular mobile phones in Kenya right…
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News
Tecno SPARK Series is launching on 25th August, here are the details.
By now you might have read on a number of Kenyan blogs that Tecno Mobile is planning to launch a…
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BUSINESS
New technologies Boosting SMEs Profits in Kenya
A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me a very interesting article on Kenya’s paradigm shift in technology. The…
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Gadgets
Infinix Note 4 Pro with Stylus pen (X-Pen) launching in mid August 2017, here are the specs
By now you already know that Infinix Mobile has two variants of the Infinix Note 4. We have the Infinix…
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Reviews
Infinix Note 4 Review: Great device for just Kshs.14,000
A new report from DataFintech, a Kenyan consumer data broker reveals that Infinix Mobile has monopolized the first position in…
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News
Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6, Nokia 3310 launched in Kenya; Here are the prices and specs
HMD Global yesterday unveiled its flagship Nokia-branded Android phones in Kenya. The phones comprise of the Nokia 3, Nokia 5…
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News
The TECNO Camon CX Manchester City Limited Edition Smartphone is finally here
I am sure by now you might have read somewhere that Tecno Mobile was planning to unveil the Camon CX…
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Reviews
Infinix Note 4 Unboxing and First Impressions
Infinix Mobility finally unveiled the Infinix Note 4. Themed, Take Charge of Your Life, the Note 4 is the company’s…
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Gadgets
The Infinix Note 4 is now on Jumia for Kshs. 13,999
The Infinix Note 4 we have been making so much noise about is now available for purchase. Yes, the…
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CYBER SECURITY
Sophos warns internet users against Petya Ransomware outbreak
Many any organizations in Europe and the US were last week crippled by yet another ransomware attack known as “Petya”.…
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Gadgets
Xiaomi sold 1 Million Redmi Note 4 smartphones in just 30 days in India
If you are a keen follower of the smartphone market you will agree that Xiaomi is probably one of…
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BUSINESS
Demand for TECNO Mobile phones went up after the Camon CX launch
Lets just agree that TECNO Mobile has been doing pretty well in the Kenyan market and even in Africa.…
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Gadgets
Everything you need to know about the Galaxy S8’s audio features
A smartphone’s audio capabilities can not only affect the quality of a phone call, but can also make or break…
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News
Facebook announces winners of its First Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge
Facebook has finally unveiled the winners of its Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge for developers across the Middle East and…
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Gadgets
Infinix Mobile is teasing the Infinix Note 4, here is what to expect
Infinix is sending out teasers for its next smartphone. Yes, the company is launching the Infinix Note 4, the successor…
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Startups
Orange launches 50 million euros investment initiative to support African Startups.
Orange Digital Ventures , Orange Group’s investment vehicle for early-stage innovation projects in Africa has launched a new investment initiative…
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Reviews
Tecno DroiPad 7D Review: The Ideal Tablet For Your Kids
We have had the Tecno DroiPad 7D for a quite a while now and as we have mentioned in all…
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Reviews
Oppo F3 Review: Great selfie camera, but is it worth spending your cash on?
It has been a month since Chinese phone maker Oppo unveiled the Oppo F3 smartphone in the Kenyan market. You…
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News
Samsung taking gaming to the next level with its new HDR QLED Gaming Monitors
Samsung Electronics today introduced what it is calling the future of gaming by unveiling its new CHG90 and CHG70 curved…
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