YouTube recently followed this up by opening up this YouTube Offline experience to all devices in selected African markets – South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya. The good news is that the service is now also available in Zimbabwe.
You can avoid becoming a victim of most of these breaches by making use of multi-factor authentication. Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a security system that requires more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user’s identity for a login or other transaction.
Zimbabwe has won a tender to host one of Southern Africa’s Internet Exchange Points. The announcement was made today by the deputy minister of ICT, Dr. Win Mlambo, at an event hosted […]
This is the main reason I don’t quite buy the “fast follower” thinking that the company has said is part of its modus operandi. The internet and the tools it provides freely to anyone, are not so we can follow fast to resell products.
In just 5 months a new Zimbabwean property classifieds website, Propertybook, a properties classifieds, has grown from ‘nothing’ to 40,000 monthly visits. How did they do it?
Effectively, them pirating content from online publications would mean the government is stealing from the young businesses it should instead be helping protect
In this article, I provide insights into how the Internet can be used effectively by the GetBucks Zimbabwe IPO announced recently in the Zimbabwe press.
In the latest installment in our Conversations with Zimbabwean Startups series, we had a discussion with Taf Makura, the founder and CEO of Mazwi, the online publishing platform. He offered his perspectives on the challenges with running a Zimbabwean startup and some thoughts on issues like net neutrality and piracy.
First of all I have to swear that this has got nothing to do with the current noise about ownai.co.zw. This article was planned ages ago based on my own […]
Called the Mega Car Sale, car dealers – the company says it has more than 50 of them listing cars on their website – will have the opportunity to sell in the good old fashioned way. Offline car buying is Classfieds’ biggest competition so it makes sense why they’d want to do this.
When Zimpapers, Zimbabwe’s largest media company, announced its half year results two months ago, it reported a US $20,000 loss. Shortly after, the company apparently uncovered an error in its tax accounting for […]
Rocket Internet’s Zambian classifieds site, Kaymu, was shut down in the past month. Zambian bloggers have offered the reasons for the startup’s failure.
One of the first services you’ll notice as soon as you get to the Expo is called Technites. This is another startup idea from the Econet team and though the service hasn’t entered the market it is set for launch in the short term.
Does Econet get the internet? Looking at the Tengai experience (it hasn’t been restored more than 2 months later), a strange EcoShopper product, and the long silence on ipidi you get a sense of how much Econet is prepared for business at this level.
[powerpress] In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the LTE opportunity for Zimbabwe and how Telecel is approaching it, the 100 employees retrenched at Econet, Tecno entering the […]
NetOne subscribers can now get daily, weekly or monthly access to Twitter by buying ordinary Twitter bundles or through a Facebook and Twitter bundle combo. This follows similar products such as WhatsApp and Facebook Bundles that NetOne introduced in the first quarter of this year.
Here’s a look at why Zimbabwean business icon and telecoms magnate Strive Masiyiwa’s detailed story of fighting corruption in Africa is important.
In this review, we look at of the Samsung Galaxy A5, the mid-range device that has a lot of top of the range appeal despite its fairly priced mid range device origins.
Econet has ramped up the promotion of its LTE service with free data for users that sign up to test it.
The Econet Dream Bundles have been terminated after the promotion that brought them to the network came to an end.
Local mobile network operator, Econet Wireless is experiencing a service outage. First noted earlier this morning, the loss of service has affected subscribers in terms of both voice and data traffic.