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By Nigel Gambanga The 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Week has kicked off with 140 countries hosting events in line with entrepreneurship and business success for the next few days. The Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is a celebration of innovation and the entrepreneurs behind viable startups that turn into contributors to world…

By Nigel Gambanga The 2014 edition of the ZOL Startup Challenge came and went with three startups walking away with accolades on the day of the finals. In this podcast we discuss the startup challenge and the impressions it helped shape about the current state of the Zimbabwean tech startup…

By Zack Chapepa WhatsApp, the famous messaging app released an update a little while ago to its app that received some pretty heated feedback. It enabled the sender to not only know that their message has been delivered but also that it has been read. Obviously, the feature itself sparked…

By Zack Chapepa The tech community has been largely anticipating Microsoft to make its shift to mobile that truly felt like the company is really serious about the future of mobile computing, so it made sense when Microsoft acquired Nokia for a deal that struck US$7 billion. Longtime purists can…

By Nigel Gambanga Here’s our latest edition of the Techzim Podcast. In this episode we discussed the return of Ecolife and whether or not it is going to move the market. We also looked at Zimpapers’ aggressive move into paid for online publishing and their new sports news platform as…

By Nigel Gambanga This is special edition of the podcast where we got feedback from Limbikani Makani who had the opportunity to attend the recently ended Africacom 2014. Limbikani shared his perspectives on the different tech entities that were present at the huge regional tech conference including the opportunities for…

By Nigel Gambanga TEDxHarare is back in Zimbabwe year, bringing with it its inspired talks, intense conversation and networking for attendees of the latest edition of the global movement. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share experiences in a manner that follows the…

By Nigel Gambanga While some of us still coming to terms with the fact that WhatsApp has started telling you who is quick to read your messages and who isn’t, the IM platform has made another update to its service. This time its all about group messaging. The limit of…

By Garikai Dzoma YouTube is without doubt the most popular video sharing site both here in Zimbabwe and internationally unless perhaps if you live in China. It doesn’t matter if you are a sports fan and all you want is to re-watch those awesome scores your team scored over the…

By Nigel Gambanga We have just been informed by sources close to Econet that the MNO is set to reactivate its insurance product Ecolife tomorrow. This isn’t an official launch, it’s more like a silent rollout of the service which hadn’t been available since 2012. This time Econet will be…