By Rufaro Madamombe The mobile money and digital payments conference has started today at Meikles Hotel. The conference is facilitating discussions some of the issues in the mobile commerce ecosystem. The first presenter was Mr. D. Chinoda and he was talking about the state of the banking and mobile money…
By Tafadzwa Mundida I once read an interesting book by Charles Duhigg which explores how habits and addictions are formed. First there is the cue, which triggers an action, which results in a reward. Unfortunately, it appears the fine software engineers at Facebook have read the same research as Mr…
By Leonard Sengere At the Broadband Economy Conference held last month the issue of net neutrality was discussed by top executives from various relevant organisations. We then summarised what was discussed and gave links to the videos of the panel discussions and called it a day. That was premature, it…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Price slash is always great news to any consumer, particularly if it’s a product that they use often. Likewise, there were celebrations yesterday as Econet made its mobile money tariff reduction announcement that would affect the millions of Zimbabweans that use EcoCash both as subscribed and non-subscribed…
By Garikai Dzoma A while ago I wrote about the fight between the ZAR registry and DCA. They were fighting a proxy war through their US based lawyers over who should be the primary registrar for the .africa TLD. The fight is far from over but earlier this year the…
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By Rufaro Madamombe YouTube Go is an app that aims to help people who are in countries with either expensive data or poor Internet connection to view YouTube video without breaking the bank. If you’d like to use it, you can always download it from unofficial sources as it is…
By Rufaro Madamombe Image credit: BrandedIQ Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba – one of the largest online stores in the world, recently made a trip to Africa for the first time. On his trip, he announced that he is creating a USD$10 million fund that young African entrepreneurs can gain…
By Staff Writer Update: The site has since had the bad content removed The website of Zimbabwe’s ruling party, Zanu-PF was hacked. The website right now is showing links to pirate movies of such titles as Despicable Me, Cars 3 and Logan. Some sections of the website are also showing…
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