Zimstocks, a mobile app that provides critical information on investing on the Zimbabwean stock exchange is now available for iOS devices.The app which is 6 to 8 months old was […]
When I read the report that said for the past several years the entire amount received in donations by the OpenSSL project was a mere $2000 in donations per year; […]
The real money and growth in tech is in emerging markets as well as mobile services and everyone seems to be looking in that direction for growth and relevance. Yahoo’s […]
Frankly I can hardily remember the last thing ZESA did anything right; and I am referring to my entire lifelong memories here. Parastatals are bad in general but the state […]
Econet Wireless founder and Chairman Strive Masiyiwa yesterday announced plans to set up an awards program to reward and encourage African innovators and investors. Strive Mayisiwa announced these plans on […]
The money transfer and remittance services industry is a big deal and it’s something we understand here in Africa because of the huge monetary inflows from the diaspora. At an […]
Popular IM WhatsApp announced via a blog post that they now have half a billion active users throughout the world. Apart from the impressive user stats, the 5 line blog […]
A couple of weeks ago I received an “Update available” prompt in VLC, clicked on in it and watched in awe as the update download was completed in under a […]
The internet is such an amazing tool. It allows us to create stuff. And to have that stuff become useful to other people. And if we’re lucky, we can stumble […]
Econet Wireless is one of a few telecommunications companies on the continent that has realized that the old telecoms model of charging for voice and SMSs – based on operating […]
Welcome again to the latest Techzim Podcast. In this edition, the discussions were engaging as usual and to cap it all, we had a special guest, Tawanda Kembo, Muzinda-Umuzi’s Technical […]
Following the buzz that has been created by the exposure of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug most people appear to have written it off as something that does not necessary affect […]
Some time back The Herald reported that the Minister of Transport, Obert Mpofu, had authorized CMED (Pvt) Ltd to identify “suitable equipment and relevant technology to achieve efficiency.” Amongst the […]
The last few months in Zimbabwe has seen the launch of two Tech Hubs, namely Hypercube and Muzinda Umuzi. To be pedantic Muzinda Umuzi is not a tech hub per […]
During this past week at the Huawei & ICT ministry’s public sector ICT forum in Zimbabwe, apparently someone asked when the government would relax current restrictions on BlackBerry Internet Services […]
Local mobile device maker, GTeL today revealed some interesting figures on their performance. Speaking during the #GetSocial event held today, GTeL’s marketing manager Mr Robert Gonye said GTeL has so […]
Strive Masiyiwa You’d be forgiven for thinking the Zimbabwe startup ecosystem has been thrown into the future, because it definitely feels like it. Strive Masiyiwa is in the country. We […]
Econet Zimbabwe is set to introduce Twitter bundles to Econet broadband subscribers. This emerged after Econet started a campaign on their Twitter account asking followers to retweet if they want […]
Turkey has taken the move to block Google’s video sharing service, YouTube. The reason: that YouTube hosted a leaked video that was politically sensitive. The move comes after the country last […]
We’ve just received a press release from Telecel on the developments of their now almost two months old mobile money service Telecash. In the press release Telecel is basically saying […]
On Thursday last week, a new promising initiative in the country tech ecosystem called The Tech Lair organized its inaugural event called The Tech Lair Meetup, The Opening at Harare […]
Thank your for completing the #GetSocial Zimbabwe 2014 survey. We really appreciate you taking the time to do this. As promised, we will be giving away a Samsung Galaxy smartphone […]