Nigeria’s FinTeCh startup Vesicash is out to Fix Trust Issues with Digital Payments in Africa Milicent Atieno August 23, 2019 Business Plans As cited by the World Economic Forum, 93% of the world’s informal employment is found in the emerging and developing countries. The majority of countries in Africa are in this category, and it is the...
Botswana Innovation Hub launches Digital Skills Training program in partnership with local government Milicent Atieno August 19, 2019 Business Plans The world is increasingly running on technology; basically the digital platform. Africa, as a continent has one of the world’s largest youthful population. That means the continent is in dire need of...
How to unlock your WhatsApp messages using the Fingerprint Lock Milicent Atieno August 13, 2019 Social Media There is a new interesting feature on the WhatsApp beta channel; feature that has been for a long time been a requested by users on Android, while their counterparts on iOS have been using it now for quite...
How to instruct Google Assistant to read out and reply to your messages on WhatsApp, Telegram Milicent Atieno August 7, 2019 Apps and Software Text messaging can sometimes jeopardize your life and the people around you. There are numerous cases of road accidents that were caused by drivers driving while texting. If you must text while driving, Google...
The guys who built GBWhatsApp have bowed down to the pressure and shut down the copycat app Milicent Atieno August 2, 2019 Social Media Mark Zuckerberg and team over at Facebook will now sleep a bit better tonight and many nights coming. Following the news that the plug on GBWhatsApp has been pulled out, and the copycat app has officially...
Healthcent, a SA-based e-Health Startups has Secured Funding for Expansion Milicent Atieno July 31, 2019 Funding If you are (or have been to South Africa), you might have heard or even used a mobile healthcare messaging service Signapps. This service is powered by the e-health startup, Healthcent. Signapps acts as a...
Kenyans and Nigerians are tearing into each other on Twitter this morning | #KenyaVsNigeria Milicent Atieno July 27, 2019 Twitter For some reason, West Africans and East Africans are up in arms tweets and hashtags against each other. Netizens from Nigeria on Twitter are bashing the famous Kenyans on Twitter (KoT as popularly referred to...
Finally Kenyans can make Direct Payments to eBay, Facebook, Netflix thanks to Mobile Money Milicent Atieno July 25, 2019 Business Plans When it comes to fintech, Africa - particularly Kenya - seems to be making the mark, while others follow. Not to brag, but Kenya was a pioneer in mobile money technology way ahead the rest of the...
East Africa Community’s Standard Gauge Rail network remains a mirage, with Kenya already shoulders-deep into Chinese debt Milicent Atieno June 20, 2019 Business Plans In 2013, East Africa states Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda convened at the first Northern Corridor infrastructure summit in Uganda. The three countries came up with a resolution to build a high-speed standard gauge...
How to make a Safaricom Reverse Call Milicent Atieno June 19, 2019 Business Plans Hey, reverse calls are back. You know, that thing you used to do with the booth phone calls provided by Telkom back in the 80s and 90s. Where you could call an operator, to call the person you want to talk to...
