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By Farai Mudzingwa In March, we decided that we would publish the statistics of online news publications for each month and so here we are once again, looking at the numbers from the interesting month that was April. We had some interesting highlights on the news scene as Mnangagwa released…
By Alvine Chaparadza Visitors can now pay online for travel visas to Zimbabwe after the Department of Immigration introduced an E-Visa payment system. The online payment can be done using Mastercard and Visa payment models only. Previously, the online visa application platform only facilitated the application of Visas but visitors…
By Farai Mudzingwa So we recently spent time with Trish Martinez and Sama Saab from the Dala foundation and Wala foundation and they got to introduce us to their crypotcurrency i.e Dala and the companion which is Wala -described as a “zero-fee money app” -and one of the major focuses…
By Alvine Chaparadza At the recent F8 Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the success of WhatsApp Business among small enterprises. He talked about the company’s plans to expand the users of the app. Now as part of the growth plans, WhatsApp Business could soon be supported on iOS devices…
By Farai Mudzingwa Imagine our surprise when we received an email with the subject, Uber for Weed Enters Zimbawe. We opened the email thinking this was an elaborate prank but after digging around on Jugnoo we realised it is a legitimate company. It appears the legalization of mbanje, aka weed,…
By Alvine Chaparadza An Econet customer was defrauded $3346 from his Steward Bank and CBZ bank accounts after an Econet agent replaced the customer’s sim without his knowledge and permission. The Econet agent is alleged to have been cheated by a syndicate of two people who claimed to be relatives…
By Farai Mudzingwa There are messages that have been circulating on Whatsapp that cause the app – and at times your phone- to crash. The most recent culprit is the ‘black-dot message.’ According to a thread on Reddit and a YouTube post, the message comes in a number of different…
By Farai Mudzingwa Ecocash merchant payment, computer shop ” data-medium-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Ecocash-Merchant-Shop-255×128.jpg” data-large-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Ecocash-Merchant-Shop-560×280.jpg”> Well it seems the payment space in Zimbabwe is on the verge of a shakeup and recent evidence in the EcoCash app seems to indicate that customers will soon be able to make payments using QR (Quick Response) codes.…
By Alvine Chaparadza DSTV users in Nigeria may soon be availed the Pay-As-You-Go option, as MultiChoice Nigeria considers the model in the face of growing competition from Kwese. Pay-As-You-Go or pay-as-you-consume is a pricing scheme in television broadcasting in which viewers are required to pay a fee in order to…
By Farai Mudzingwa If you follow Tech news around the region you’ll probably know that Kenya has really been on a surge when it comes to development in their tech space of late. As recently as two weeks ago we were talking about activity in the Kenyan gaming scene. Now…