David Okwii

Africa is currently having birth pangs of Technological innovations. Whether it's Lagos Nigeria where the likes of Jumia and Konga are providing convenient shopping experiences to the emerging middle class akin to what Amazon is doing in the west, iROKOTV which is a Netflix version... Read More

This week, the Ebola epidermic took its toll on West African nations. Latest figures from WHO's tally indicate that the virus has infected 1,323 and led to 729 deaths across Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. WHO Director General Margaret Chan said that the "outbreak is moving... Read More

The Linux Foundation-backed free Introduction to Linux course on edX started yesterday with  200,000 enrollees that has already registered for this free course. The Foundation announced earlier in May this year that it would be offering a free introductory course that covers the basic tools and techniques... Read More

Samsung Electronics South Africa announced its plan to open a television manufacturing plant in The Dube Trade Port, Durban by end of this year.  Samsung continues to hold the largest market share of global Smart TV shipments, occupying 26 percent of the market. Its total investment of 20 million USD until 2018, the plan demonstrates the... Read More

When the Nigerian bride price app went viral in May this year, it wasn't meant to seriously determine the value of brides in Nigeria as was its purported purpose. Rather, it was a clever marketing strategy for Anakle, the digital firm that developed it --... Read More

July is almost done. We hope it's been a great month as it has been for us. For this week's hand-picked articles, if you run a start-up or even have been in business for some time, there's a great list of business models that you... Read More

Android users already have had the ability to shop on JUMIA Kenya using the JUMIA mobile app for Android, and in yet another move to further enhance the customer shopping experience, the e-commerce company has moved to announce the free Jumia Kenya shopping app for... Read More

Wow, it has been about three and half months since we pushed the rebrand button. We renamed one of the most authentic voices in Tech in Africa from TechPost (www.techpost.ug) to Dignited (www.dignited.com). As you might already know, rebranding online is a lot different from... Read More

Here's a profound fact about all Tecno phones -- they are all Dual-SIM! All of them. Be it a low end device like the Tecno T630 or high-end hexa-core or octa-core smartphones like the Tecno R7 and the recently announced Tecno Z, Tecno has consistently made... Read More