Technology

By Trycolyn Pikirayi We’ve been talking about WhatsApp for business for a while now. We were quite excited about the whole idea but now to be quite frank the hype is dying down (or rather, let me speak for myself, my hype is dying down) and the reason is probably…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi During the Competition and Tariffs Commission event that happened last week, we touched a little on internet privacy, something that’s been of concern to the people who use the internet much. There’s always a different angle to it, for example I remember discussing issues around privacy versus…

By Leonard Sengere Telone, the sole fixed line operator in the country lost subscribers in the third quarter of 2017. Despite the drop in subscribers revenue actually increased. There were some interesting developments in voice traffic too. Let’s dig in. Subscribers Number of subscribers fell by 2.3% from second quarter…

By Leonard Sengere You might be familiar with Microsoft Excel, famous spreadsheet software. You no doubt have seen it used to organise data and to display various graphs from that data. Maybe you actually use it everyday as a decision making tool. One man saw us all use Excel this…

By Leonard Sengere In the first week of President Mnangagwa’s administration the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) registered growth as the downward trend the exchange had been on reversed. Prior to the swearing in of the new president, the stock market had been in a free fall. Analysts assured us all…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi For some time now, social media has been viewed as nonsensical and somewhat perverting… and of course its biggest victim would be the millennial generation. Just a little over a week ago, Techzim wrote about how the army boss had expressed some concerns over how our Zimbabwean…

By Tinashe Nyahasha From January to September 2017 the Government of Zimbabwe collected 2.6% more revenue than the targeted revenue collection. They performed better than their budgeted expectation. However parastatals and state owned enterprises were not really to thank for this performance. In his 2018 National Budget presentation Finance and…

By Leonard Sengere Last week we looked at the reasons why bitcoin’s price is rising fast. This was after the price of bitcoin had surpassed $20,000 internationally. We identified one of the reasons as the coming bitcoin futures contracts to be offered on regulated exchanges. Bitcoin futures are set to…

By Garikai Dzoma So last week we looked at Christmas shopping Gearbest, my favorite online store. Despite my best efforts though I could not squeeze in some of the wisdom that I wanted to pass on to you in that article. I also promised to present you with curated lists…

By Tinashe Nyahasha Yes again this is an article based on the 2018 National Budget. Sometimes as citizens we do not probe much into these national documents and hence fail to hold public officers accountable to their pronouncements. Consider this to be a stimulant for you to think about what’s…