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Distribution Sales Director, Secure Power Division If a business isn’t growing, its likely on its way to extinction. For IT solution providers, staying on a growth path requires continuous investment in new technology and service opportunities. Edge computing delivers a robust opportunity for IT solution providers with projected spending to reach $250.6 billion by 2024, according to IDC. With thousands of the edge sites, unmanned or unstaffed by IT, CIOs are looking for help with the monitoring and management of these sites....

With just 30,000 drivers on the platform since inception in 2015, MARAMOJA Transport has focused on Corporate Business through MARAMOJA for Corporates and grown its customer base to 100+ Corporates with 100,000+ Users in Kenya. Recently, MARAMOJA Transport recently launched MARAMOJA for Schools to solve the transport challenges faced by students. MARAMOJA for Schools has completed 30,000+ School trips across 70+ Schools since its Launch in May 2021. To compete giants Uber, Bolt, Little among others, the new members Ethel D....

Calling itself the country’s own and the world’s only socially-powered transport app Jason Eisen says MARAMOJA Transport is unique because Nairobi is unique. “This is because Nairobi doesn’t have a taxi market, we have a taxi culture. Nairobi’s taxi culture is built around values like trust, loyalty, and relationships. Finding a ride in Nairobi has never been a problem, it’s about finding a trusted ride, quickly, reliably, and at a fair prices,” Eisen told TechMoran....

The 2022 Mastercard New Payments Index reported that 29% of respondents globally hold cryptocurrency as an investment, with another 65% indicating a preference for crypto-related services to be provided by their current trusted financial institution.* In partnership with regulated and licensed crypto custody providers, Mastercard’s financial institution partners will gain access to a comprehensive suite of buy, hold and sell services for select crypto assets, augmented with proven identity, cyber, security and advisory services....

Topy is actually an alumnus of Alliance Girl’s High School where she sat for her high school certificate and proceeded to the Jomo Kenyatta University for a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Information Technology and a Higher Diploma in Management of Information Systems from Strathmore University. The tenacious lady was also lucky to get a Nelson Mandela scholarship to study at INSEAD Business School in France where she received a Masters in Business Administration....

With this in mind, the Redmond firm presents new rules for Outlook, aimed at shortening meetings and taking a break between them. Read also: Microsoft is working on a new Microsoft Store for Windows 10; finally. More breaks cause less stress. Almost everyone knows that taking breaks between meetings can be beneficial for well-being and efficiency at work. The interest of the Microsoft study is to show this scientifically, and visually....

According to the DCI, Daniel Kivuti, who is 40, was to transport 750 cartons of mobile phones from Africa Cargo Warehouse at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to another warehouse in Eastleigh, Nairobi. However, he never arrived to his destination. Since the search began, only seven cartons have been recovered. “Upon search, the M/V was recovered within Mara road and seven cartons of assorted mobile phones recovered,” said the police In a police report filed at Kamukunji Police Station, the lorry he was driving with registration number KBZ628X mysteriously got lost with the said cargo....

On the topic of alignment, it should be noted that users can choose from the options of None, Left, Right, and Center. In addition, they also get the options of Thumbnail, Medium, Large & Fullsize. And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her. Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean....

Partech, a San Francisco-based investor, led the investment. Participants included Y Combinator, CDG Invest, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa. CPO and Alami Freterium, a YC-backed company, was launched by Omar El Kouhene in 2020. The startup’s goal is to develop a holistic strategy to address the freight industry’s crucial backend concerns. According to the firm, Freterium transportation management software allows freight businesses to handle shipments from the port to the plant, then items from the manufacturer to warehouses, B2B clients, and finally end-users....

Marius Reitz, Luno’s GM for Africa, unpacks the most common misconceptions and questions about Bitcoin. Myth: Bitcoin is a massive bubble waiting to burst A longer term view of Bitcoin performance Only time will tell whether Bitcoin will continue to surge or not. For now, however, it may be useful to take a longer term view of Bitcoin’s performance. What is evident is that reports of the demise of Bitcoin seem to have been greatly exaggerated....

It seems that Motorola has followed the example of other smartphone manufacturers with intentions of releasing its first smart TV perhaps making it the third smartphone maker in recent times to venture out in the smart TV space. OnePlus will be launching the OnePlus TV this month while Xiaomi is soon expected to refresh its Mi TV lineup. Motorola has kept mum about its new TV because there haven’t been many details about it, although some of the specifications have leaked on the web, giving us a fair idea of what to expect....

Nairobi County has today hosted a County Consumer ICT forum dubbed ‘Kikao Kikuu’ at Kenyatta International Convention Centre. Organized by ICT industry regulator, Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), the open forum provided an opportunity for consumers of ICT services to interact with service providers, consumer organizations, other government agencies and the Authority. The Authority used the platform to focus on digital migration and more so to empower consumers with factual information on what is expected of them in the migration process....

I don’t know how often you use voice messages but the only times I’ve received a voice message is when someone was trying to reach me and since they couldn’t they ended up sending me a voice note which sometimes wasn’t welcomed. According to reports iOS users will soon have the luxury of turning off read receipts or blue ticks for voice messages. WhatsApp will be reportedly rolling out a simple but significant change for users who do not want senders to know if their messages have been read, or in this case, heard....

If you want to rank up fast in New World MMO game, you can pay attention to five tips in the following, including Town Projects, Faction Missions, Main Quests, Side Quests and rest in a settlement. When exiting the new world for the day, be sure to rest in the settlement. You receive Rested XP bonuses when you re-log in to the game. As long as rewards are active, any task that gives you level XP will earn more rewards....

TechMoran met Oluwapelumi Kumuyi, the Brand Manager at Print Anything. Kumuyi has a BSc from Covenant University in Management Information Systems and this is what he told us about Print Anything. What is print anything all about? Print Anything is a Print Management Company helping businesses succeed with beautiful designs and quality print products. We have an in-house team of experienced graphic designers providing free designs to all our customers amongst other awesome Experience & Fulfilment staff....

This funding, the company said will be used to drive its vision of becoming the most reliable credit infrastructure in Africa in the next 5 years, fostering trust between lenders and borrowers. Explaining the role of CreditCheck in the economy,Kingsley Ibe co-founder cited data from the National Bureau of Statistics, which showed that in 2018, financial institutions lost over $4B to chronic loan defaulters. “In Kenya, an estimated 3.2 million people — 6% of the population, have been blacklisted on Kenya’s TransUnion credit reference bureau for non-repayment of digital credit loans....

You might be wondering who are this guys but you’ll have to wait, yes for a few more days. Just so you know, Ogadriva is a City to City Carsharing transport network & pickup system designed for drivers and passengers in Africa and this Ogadriva will pick you up from your house to your destination. Now doing a pilot in Europe, Ogadriva.com is designed for Africa as Africans take a huge burden each year to carry their load to the roadside to wait for a bus or taxi to pick them up the bus park to pick an intercity Car/Bus to wherever they are going....

Agri-tech startup Releaf was founded in 2017 and participated in the Y Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley the same year, but it didn’t start operating in the oil palm space until 2019 and only deployed its proprietary technology in January of this year. The startup’s proprietary hardware improves the availability and quality of raw materials for food manufacturers, while its sourcing software connects them with over 2,000 smallholder farmers....

Marc Ventures Capital led the investment, with participation from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, True Capital Fund, and Sherwani Capital LP, among others. The funds will be used to expand the company’s current facilities, launch new verticals in compliance, security, and data collecting, and hire more people to join its 14-person team. Identitypass compares fingerprints and faces, performs ID checks, and graphs identities. It aims to fulfill the growing demands for know your customer (KYC) across Africa, as internet access and mobile penetration increases, resulting in more online businesses and security vulnerabilities....

ABV funds led the pre-seed funding round, which included Ingressive Capital, Voltron Capital, Venture Platform, Velocity Digital, and Berrywood Capita. Johnson Yaya, Kennedy and Duke from Kippa, and Miracle Anyanwu are among the other angel investors in this round. The funds will be used by the startup to increase the number of bank accounts that can be linked to the platform. Bridgecard will also expand to enable crypto wallets in approved countries, expand product distribution, and more effectively manage online and card payment concerns....