Uganda has come under the spotlight following information that spies hacked into the phones of us officials working at it’s embassy in Kampala using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group. According to reuters, the hacks, which took place in the last several months, hit U.S. officials either based in Uganda or focused on matters concerning the East African…
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Tech giant Google on Wednesday announced her intentions to invest $ 1 billion in Africa with an aim to boost the continent’s internet access and startup scene. Specifically, Google eyes the youthful market of Africa that is armed with smartphones but is being held back by internet access. Hence the idea of Google’s Equiano undersea internet cable to connect Africa…
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Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet. It will back startups to support the continent’s digital transformation, it said on Wednesday. The unit of U.S. tech company Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) made the announcement at a virtual event. During the event, it launched an Africa Investment Fund, through which…
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Following a close to six hours worldwide shutdown of social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, 10.6 million problems were reported worldwide. According to down detector which tracks outages, the situation was described as the largest failure to ever be seen since such a large number of problems was reported more over on a worldwide basis. This occurred after a…
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The world’s most popular and American freeware, cross-platform centralized instant messaging and voice-over-IP service app has on Monday evening shutdown. The incident was reported at around 6:00 PM EAT, leaving many users blaming their internet and mobile data providers. “We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal…
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Coalition for Digital Equality (CODE) has finally announced the winners for the Digital Equality Awards. Coalition for Digital Equality is known for majorliy forcing on networking both local and international stakeholders to address the digital gender divide and drive sustainable economic growth in Africa. Hence the organisation came up with awards through which they recognition the achievements of individuals in…
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Airtel Uganda has announced that its tugabane internet feature will no longer be available for daily internet bundles from Wednesday. The same will apply to freaky holiday and freaky Friday internet Data bundles. Tugabane is a unique feature by Airtel Uganda which allows Airtel customers to concurrently use the same data bundles. “Kindly be informed that effective Wednesday 21st July…
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Nigerian social media in-laws have roared out loud to service providers that they will use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access Twitter following the suspension of its services in the country by the government. Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture announced the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria on Friday… One of the benefits of using a VPN…
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The Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT,) has announced its partnership with IBM to provide free digital skills to groups of youths from African and Middle East countries. Among the eight countries that have been selected include Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, Jordan and Lebanon which will contribute a total of at least 40,000 youths to attain the training. However, upto…
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Talk to any economic expert and my most educated guess is they will tell you how SMEs are the backbone of any growing country. For the case of Uganda, the figures are staggering, close to 90% of business in the country falls in this category and this makes the demand for capital or local investors even more critical. On the…
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