Weeks ahead of the Zimbabwe election, the battle for votes is being fought as much at the rallies as it is on mobile phones.
Attack ads, campaign videos, WhatsApp blasts, Facebook Live and even fake news are combining to make...
LAST week, the Post and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) and the Ministry of ICT and Cyber Security announced an almost 60 percent reduction in out-of-bundle mobile data.
This was welcomed as a progressive move that would promote Internet...
TELONE generated more revenue from data than its traditional voice service for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2018, following the company's tilt towards becoming a fully fledged technology entity.
The latest report from the Post and...
Strive Masiyiwa’s Liquid Telecom, Africa’s largest fibre network provider, has raised US$307 million from shareholders to expand its data centre business.
The new money includes an additional US$40 million equity investment from the CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution....
By Tonderai Maruke
It already dominates property in Zimbabwe, but now Old Mutual is moving to occupy a different kind of real estate - in the digital space.
Old Mutual, the...
Econet Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa has been named among Bloomberg’s 50 most influential people of the year for his support to Zimbabwe’s healthcare.
The Bloomberg 50 lists the year’s most influential leaders globally, individuals with "the ability to move markets...
Mukuru has launched a mobile wallet in Zimbabwe to compete with more established fintech providers such as market leader EcoCash and InnBucks.
The company made its name in international transfers and will now enter...
Netflix has appointed Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa to its board, at a time the world’s biggest streaming service is expanding its investment in African content.
Masiyiwa is the first African — and only the third international media executive — to join Netflix’s...
Econet says its decision to bring its fintech businesses back under its wing is already paying off, with the country’s biggest tech company reporting strong growth across its key divisions for the year to February.
Liquid Telecom, a unit of Strive Masiyiwa’s Econet Global, has raised US$840 million in a bond sale to refinance debt and fund its African expansion.
Liquid engaged JPMorgan Chase & Co, Standard Chartered and...
