FBC Bank has launched a new promotion called “Transact without borders” where card holders who use their Prepaid MasterCards from now until 31 January, when the competition ends, can win […]
While some are convinced 100 days is not enough to measure any progress, there are some people out there I’m sure who like me think 100 days is a long […]
The Zimbabwe Transitional Stabilisation Programme has to be the first time a document by the government at this level has at least shown appreciation of digital entrepreneurship. The document Mthuli […]
BeForward is known for selling cars, but because we are in the 21st century and anyone can follow the words of Bruce Lee and “be like water”, they are moving […]
Last year around this time, Kwese graced the satellite and broadcasting network scene challenging DSTv. I must say it wasn’t an easy road for Kwese to enter into Zimbabwe. At […]
There is no sufficient word to describe the last ten months in Zimbabwe. We saw events we never thought we would get to see in this ‘peace-loving’ nation of ours. […]
The Zimbabwean telecommunications sector has been crazy and toxic for a long time. From the days of Strive Masiyiwa being denied a licence to operate a mobile network there has […]
They say you only stop learning when you die; that is assuming there is no life after death of course. One of the most popular habit of successful people from […]
Recently our own president was officiating at an event where Liquid Telecom was unveiling an initiative to give free WiFi access to students. This is a great initiative. Google is […]
Being shunned by local telecoms operators was most probably a blessing in disguise for residents of Maitengwe in Matabeleland South. This is because residents of Maitengwe used foreign currency (forex) mobile […]
Yes, the phrase Cape-to-Cairo is synonymous with imperialism but today you can dismiss that and start to associate it with connectivity. Because Liquid Telecom and Telecom Egypt have struck an agreement […]
Econet revenues increased to $831,6 million for the year ended February 2018. This reflected an increase of ($209.9 million) 34% relative to the last comparable period. The increase was propped […]
In March, we decided that we would publish the statistics of online news publications for each month and so here we are once again, looking at the numbers from the […]
We are at the Zimswitch Digital Payment Conference in Victoria Falls and the conference will be covering many areas to do with ‘cashless’ solutions and how these can be optimized […]
Sometimes the timing of certain events is just perfect and things seem to come together as if this was intended by a higher power. Yesterday was one of those days […]
It is difficult to imagine Ecocash being dethroned from the mobile money throne in Zimbabwe. Every time a stastic about mobile money or payments in general is given the situation […]
Kwese has announced that it has partnered with Alpha Networks to distribute its Over-The-Top (OTT) services of Kwese Play in South Africa and the Kwese TV App in Africa. Alpha […]
In 2016, the Ministy of Higher and Tertiary Education (under Jonathan Moyo at the time) introduced a national initiative that would (at least according to them) drive economic growth. This […]
If you’re reading this on Techzim, there is a very good chance you are not really into sports. We can all agree that there is some truth in the stereotype […]
Kwese has acquired ‘a significant stake’ in iflix, a Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) provider that has millions of subscribers in Asia. This deal promises to bring more content to […]
The Zimbabwean government has invited Strive Masiyiwa back into the country. They want him to attend a National Dialogue forum being organized by the National Economic Consultative Forum in March. […]
The #GoGettaz entrepreneurship competition finals finally took place last week on Friday in Nairobi, Kenya. The competition began on the 18th of August last year (2017) and has been running since. […]
This article is a continuation of my previous one, in which I outlined how in a global village that we are in, limited funding (at least in the Zimbabwean context with […]
Last week, Techzim ran a story discussing the government’s plan to privatise most of the state owned enterprises. In that story we talked about how privatisation has to be done […]
The ‘new dispensation ‘ is upon us, and as usual Zimbabweans are caught in the loop of ‘great expectations’ of government working to redeem us from our economic woes by […]