Fomo uses geolocation to show users specials available at nearby restaurateurs listed on the app. Co-founders Ryan Marx and Jax Du Plessis birthed the idea for the app after a night out. After having gone out for supper and left the restaurant, they saw specials available in at a different restaurant in the same area and wished they had gone there instead – hence the name of the app, Fomo (fear of missing out)....
The uYilo Electric Mobility Programme was launched in 2013 as a collaborative multi-stakeholder effort to enable, facilitate, and mobilize electric mobility in South Africa. The Technology Innovation Agency, a federal agency under the Department of Science and Innovation, is responsible for the initiative. Last month, the European Union endowed the initiative with multimillion-rand funding, which will be used to empower and organize electric transportation across Africa. The uYilo Kick Start Fund was founded in 2014 to help with the development of e-mobility-related products and services by providing an agile mechanism to fund applied research and development to enable, facilitate, and expedite e-mobility in South Africa....
If you’re a music fan and you’d like to enjoy your music without any interruptions then you’re in luck because spotify will be joining the African market soon. According to the company’s newly appointed regional chief executive officer, Sipho Dlamini their plan is to build up operations in countries including Kenya and hopefully implementing Spotify in 2021. “We are thinking long term and looking to build lasting infrastructure in order to support African talent for years to come....
Phone tracking, done for good reasons, is even supported by law. For instance, laws of many countries have made it mandatory to set up parental control for data-driven devices used by minors. No matter what your reasons are for phone tracking, using a reliable and high-end phone tracker is a must as then only you’ll be able to make most of the efforts invested in phone tracking. In this post, we’ll tell you about one of the most widely used phone spy apps and the reasons behind choosing it....
The Ksh 62million project seeks to support Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to respond, restore and rebound from the effects of the pandemic. The partnership is under the Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) Programme commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by GIZ and Stanbic Kenya Foundation. The business recovery interventions under the partnership will be provided to 500 micro-enterprises and 200 small enterprises drawn from services, trade, agriculture, manufacturing and construction centers....
The company offers a choice of three bouquets on each platform with Nyota, Basic and Classic bouquets available on terrestrial at a monthly cost of Ksh.299, Ksh. 599 and Ksh. 899 respectively while Nova, Smart and Super are available on the satellite platform at a monthly cost of Ksh.499, Ksh. 999 and Ksh.1,499 respectively. Subscribers recharging their bouquet of choice for two months will enjoy access to the next higher bouquet for a similar period at no extra cost where terrestrial platform’s Nyota bouquet subscribers recharging for two months at Ksh....
Among the content that the broadcaster has introduced is Fashion TV Africa, a typical African style fashion channel that enjoys unique shots of brilliant flair thereby highlighting quality, African themed productions. enhances With over 500 hours of content updates per year and growing, the channel will take fashion enthusiasts across an active network of African fashion industry, providing a direct and rapid reserve for local content production and marketing featuring the diverse cultures only found in Africa....
The ABB FIA Formula E Championship has entered a partnership with StarTimes. Startimes will be showing remaining races of the current season. All the matches will be live across its linear and digital channels in Africa. The new broadcast partnership will see the electric street racing series screened in 37 countries across the African continent, including South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania. StarTimes has a strong presence in Africa part of the 30 countries the company is in operation....
Key representatives from Nairobi’s startup ecosystem will come together for an online event celebrating the recent release of Startup Guide Nairobi on January 28, 2021. Based on traditional travel guides, Startup Guide books help entrepreneurs navigate startup hubs across the globe. Known as the Silicon Savannah, Nairobi is globally recognized as a major tech capital and a leader in mobile technology. Over the past decade, a strong ecosystem has developed in this city, with innovation in mobile payments, logistics, ecommerce, health and blockchain leading the way....
This new service will give commuters a chance to book their ride to upcountry way in advance instead of having to book physically. The new service will be available in 12 new counties this includes Naivasha, Nakuru, Molo, Eldoret, Narok, Bomet, Kericho, Kisii, Kisumu, Nyeri, Nanyuki & Machakos. Partnerships will be introduced. SWVL plans to partner with various matatu saccos that offer long-distance routes. The Kenyan General Manager said: “We are constantly innovating for the Kenyan commuter to provide them with safe, tech-enabled commutes that make it easier for them to travel....
“During the pandemic period, we took our time to analyse the patterns and needs of commuters. We identified the areas of change and have used the information to advise our new innovations and the decision to fully restart our regular rides service across the city. Our aim is to ensure that we provide a service for every kind of commuter in the country”, said Dip Patel, the General Manager for Swvl in Kenya....
The seed round of funding was led by leading African venture capital investor HAVAÍC, 4Di Capital and several prominent fintech angel investors. “From the start, our mission was to bridge distance and connect lives by offering reliable, affordable, and easy-to-use digital services, delivered in a localised manner to all communities, particularly emerging countries, so they can connect to the world,” said Hiine. “The Talk360 app is now the number one calling app in Africa, independent of users’ currency or preferred way of payment....
Tecno Pova 4 has a camera system comprising three cameras. The front has a selfie camera of 8MP at the top of the screen. The rear side sports two cameras with the main having a 50MP sensor and a minor camera whose MP has not been revealed. Below the two cameras is a dual-LED flash on the side. It comes in two memory|storage configurations of 8GB RAM|128GB and 8GB RAM|256GB....
The battle of “who is who” in Kenya’s telecommunications and mobile banking sector is nowhere near conclusion. It first began with call rates, where some telcos substantially slashed call rates. Eventually, it moved to SMS’s and internet data, where the real battle is. However, given the high smartphone penetration in the country, which has been reported to be at 6 percent in the mobile market, mobile applications such as Whatsapp, Viber, Telegram and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are becoming a major threat to the SMS package....
In an email to Tesla owners, the automaker announced that it will wave the fee to supercharge electric vehicles in several countries around Ukraine. The no cost areas are Poland (Trzebownisko), Slovakia (Košice) and Hungary (Miskolc and Debrecen). Tesla’s vast network of superchargers can fill up an electric car with 200 miles of range in just 15 minutes. On average, charging an EV costs around $0.25 per KW which would translate to around $22 to get enough juice for a 250 miles range....
What is Commercial Litigation and how does it work? To put it another way, civil litigation is a dispute between two or more individuals in which no criminal charges are filed. Civil litigation is defined as any legal proceeding in which two or more parties are involved in a non-criminal legal dispute and which concludes in a decision. Most of the time, in civil litigation, the parties are suing to protect or defend a legal right, and the suing party (the Plaintiff) is seeking compensation in the form of money damages or some other type of relief (specific performance....
1. Open up a Digital Wallet Before one can really get started on purchasing, investing, selling, and just generally making use of cryptocurrency, one first needs a place for that cryptocurrency to go. Because this form of currency is entirely online and has no physical form, the place where it will be stored also has no physical form. What one will need to search for is known as a digital wallet, often referred to as just a wallet in communities that deal with cryptocurrency....
The 8K TVs have a video resolution far surpassing HD, and four times the pixel count of 4K displays. The new 8K models, promises advances in processing and ramped-up manufacturing to offer sharper and more affordable sets. Each year’s CES is overrun by concept TVs that are destined to either remain prototypes for years to come or be released with such high price tags that they might as well not have come out at all....
This is why a huge number of businesses are putting money into strict privacy rules to reduce the number of data breaches that occur daily. In this article, we’ll discuss why data security is so important for modern businesses. What is the definition of data security? Most people would also chant data privacy when it comes to data security. Simply expressed, it refers to an organization’s ability to deal with data security with currently available technologies....
According to widely accepted knowledge, the iPhone 14 mini’s failure to launch was caused by official projections for the sales of the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini were not met. Customers who like small-screen smartphones may, however, hold out until the next iteration of the iPhone SE is released. Mydrivers claims that the next iPhone SE will take the place of the iPhone 14 small and keep only one primary camera....
