The world’s largest enterprise cloud computing hyperscaler, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its next wave of data centres in South Africa. Amazon’s partnership with the largest mobile provider in South Africa – will enable Vodacom Business to grow its offering further and deliver improved business, cloud and other solutions to its clients. The AWS and Vodacom partnership has far-reaching…
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TPAY Mobile and Vodafone Egypt launch Digital Payment on Google Play
Through this partnership TPAY MOBILE, which operates in the UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, in addition to seven other countries, enables Vodafone Egypt subscribers to purchase from Google Play and conveniently charge the payments to their mobile phone bill or deduct them from their airtime balance. For the first time in Egypt, all of the 41 million Vodafone subscribers have the…
Read MoreApple Music starting Africa Month celebration
Apple Music has launched a month-long campaign to showcase the best playlists, artists and albums from all corners of the continent to celebrate Africa Month. This follows last week’s expansion of Apple Music into an additional 52 new countries around the world. This expansion gave 33 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa access to Apple Music. The campaign features 15 exclusive guest…
Read MoreNew Global Independent ‘Oversight Board’ for Facebook and Instagram Content appoints Board Members
Board Includes Three Members From Africa and Will Make Binding and Transparent Decisions on Content Today, Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières from Cameroon, Maina Kiai, a human rights activist and Director of Human Rights Watch’s Global Alliances and Partnerships program from Kenya, and Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Program…
Read MoreHow to spot fake links in WhatsApp messages and Email.
Almost every day, you receive a link in your email or in your WhatsApp group. Not every link is from a trusted source and some are intended to trick you install malware, spam others, or redirect you to a fake website and steal your information. The website will look exactly like that of your Bank, Netflix, or another service provider,…
Read MoreHow To Start a YouTube Channel And Make Money From It.
YouTube has grown to be one of the best search engines with millions of videos which include entertainment, educational, lifestyle, DIYs, cat videos, fashion vlogs, sports clips, cartoons, tech reviews, cooking tips, and many more. Aside from the tones of Information available on YouTube, you can make money from advertisements after creating your YouTube channel. These are some statistics about…
Read MoreHow Ugandan Publishers can Monetize Their Blogs With Adsense.
Ever thought of making money from the content you put online, great this article is for you. Running a blog is expensive most especially if you don’t earn a penny from it. You spend money on buying domains, hosting, graphics, and maintenance other than making it back. You might have tried out a lot of techniques but none worked for…
Read MoreGive your website a face – Dickson Mushabe.
In Kampala today, it is very easy to find a client who needs a website. You can do a pitch and in less than an hour you have all the deal in your hands. But this was not the case before. It is the NGOs that promoted the use of websites in Uganda and that was mainly due to the…
Read MoreWarner Music Group to enter many African markets through Investment in African Music Company Africori
The deal gives Warner Music’s ADA division access to Africa’s largest catalogue and A&R network, as well as enabling WMG to establish a presence in many African markets for the first time. ADA will work closely with Africori to distribute and promote its artists internationally through Warner Music’s global network. It will support Africori’s distribution activities on its existing catalogue…
Read MoreMore satellites grow viewing channels to over 40 African countries.
A Multi-year contract using Eutelsat’s dynamic 7° East neighbourhood means RCS Ghana can provide capacity for the broadcast of quantitative quality viewing. RCS will use Ku-Band band capacity on EUTELSAT 7B to broadcast its fast growing free-to-air DTH bouquet comprising SD and HD channels to the Ghanaian market and over 40 other countries in Africa. The Chairman and CEO of…
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