By Tapiwa Creates The lack of appeal that litters a lot of the marketing campaigns in Zimbabwe is all thanks to a shocking trend that seems to have become the norm. This trend is the use of stock images which is now so rampant in marketing campaigns it is just…
By L.S.M Kabweza In a CNN interview this week, Econet Global Limited CEO, Hardy Pemhiwa, said that Kwese TV is now the biggest FTA TV network in Africa. Asked how many subscribers the relatively new media company now has, Pemhiwa avoided speaking about ‘subscribers’ but spoke about ‘eyeballs’ Kwese has…
By Guest Author In late 2016, I got a call from the finance director of a listed financial services company. He and his managing director wanted to take me out for lunch. Shortly before that, the media had reported of an investment I had made in a blockchain start-up. I…
By L.S.M Kabweza Remember the deal Kwese signed to have its TV content available to mobile subscribers of Kenya and Ghana? The company is looking at mobile networks, like Econet’s in Zimbabwe, as one of the key distribution platforms for its content, which now comprises quite a collection of channels;…
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By Staff Writer At the end of June 2017, that is in just a over a month, a lot of devices currently running WhatsApp will not be supported anymore. In 2016, WhatsApp announced that it would stop supporting some mobile phones “to focus our efforts on the mobile platforms the…
By Tawanda Moyo I have been reading Demystifying the Chinese Economy by Justin Yifu Lin which details how China from 1979 onwards achieved rapid economic growth. Now Yifu Lin is a respected professor of Economics and a former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank so he…
By Staff Writer Stand Up Comedian Carl Joshua Ncube has been selected as a TED Fellow, joining a class of 21 changemakers from around the world who will each deliver a talk from the TEDGlobal stage this August in Arusha, Tanzania. Members of the class include a Ugandan journalist working…
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By L.S.M Kabweza The EcoCash Mastercard VCN service is down. The service, which EcoCash subscribers use to generate Virtual Card Numbers (hence VCN), is one of the few ways Zimbabweans have to make payment to merchants outside the country. Users of the service have been complaining on social media and…