By Garikai Dzoma So remember the I7S earbuds from Cafago we featured last week? Well now you can get them for a jaw dropping $11.99 instead of the previously mentioned $19. That is quite some love from Cafago. To get this price you need to: visit the Cafago website here,…
By Alvine Chaparadza FBC Bank has started the process of going paperless by replacing its paper bank statements with e-statements (electronic statements). With e-statements, customers will be able to view account statements online anytime. Rather than having to wait for a queue to get paper bank statements when customers go…
By Farai Mudzingwa The month of May has been a rollercoaster for Zimbabwe’s most popular crypto exchange, Golix. At the beginning of the month, Golix were putting together plans for ICO which would have helped them to launch their own GLX token. These plans were halted when the central bank…
By Alvine Chaparadza Standard Chartered Visa Card with US dollars ” data-medium-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/StanChart-Visa-US-dollars-255×128.jpg” data-large-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/StanChart-Visa-US-dollars-560×280.jpg”> We contacted Standard Chartered (StanChart) this morning and we can confirm that its online Visa service can no longer be used to make online international payments. Stanchart joins a growing list of banks that are restricting the…
By Leonard Sengere May 2018 proved to be a crazy month in the cryptocurrency world. Cryptocurrencies went from ‘allowed’ to ‘banned’ and back to ‘allowed’ all in the space of 12 days. Governor John Mangudya and his friends at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) overstepped their authority and issued…
By Farai Mudzingwa Last year in June, the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) was hacked and the individual behind the hack demanded US$999 in order to return the files. This hacker also claimed to have secured some – in fact ALL- HIT databases and now there appears to be a…
By Farai Mudzingwa AfricaCom – the largest telecoms, media and tech event in Africa- has just launched the Africa Video Forum. The forum will be used to showcase the hottest African video content. There will also be presentations focused on assisting Africans monetise their content. You can read the press…
By Farai Mudzingwa Kwese quietly uploaded the Kwese Pulse app onto the Google Play Store back in March and it slipped under our radar. It seems that Kwese was already taking advantage of their broadcasting licences. Now that we’ve taken note of this (thanks tipster!), let’s look at Kwese’s streaming…
By Farai Mudzingwa DStv is under attack! The rise of Video on Demand services such as Netflix has been changing the way people consume their content. Luckily for DStv, in Africa VoD hasn’t taken off as much as it has in other regions of the world so they still have…
By Farai Mudzingwa Cryptocurrencies are quite confusing, to be honest. It seems very few people fully understand cryptos and those who do are usually unable to fully explain how the digital currencies work to the general populace. Is South Africa back-tracking? South Africa which has long been considered one of…