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Vaya Africa Launches Electric Ride-hail Taxi Service in Zimbabwe

Vaya Africa Launches Electric Ride-hail Taxi Service in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s fuel shortages have reached critical levels with long winding queues visible at most fuel stations while most are completely empty. Frustrated and desperate motorists are spending long hours parked at fuel stations and today ride-hail mobility Vaya Africahas become the country’s answer to the fuel problems its currently facing after it launched an electric taxi service and charging…

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Google Celebrates Zimbabwe Culture with Mbira Doodle

Google Celebrates Zimbabwe Culture with Mbira Doodle

Google has joined in on Zimbabwe’s Culture Week celebrations by celebrating the country’s traditional instrument, the Mbira (also known as the Thumb piano) with a Musical Doodle game on their popular online search engine.

 May 21 internationally, is the day set aside to celebrate cultural diversity and the country is celebrating this day through Culture Week which was launched by Minister of…

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Automated Delivery Cashes in on Pandemic-driven Demand

Automated Delivery Cashes in on Pandemic-driven Demand

The coronavirus crisis is accelerating a shift in the world of autonomous cars toward delivering packages instead of people, as big players open up a lead over startups in the race for funding.

“The reality right now is that goods delivery is a bigger market than moving people,” John Krafcik, chief executive officer of self-driving technology company Waymo, told Reuters in early May.

Waymo,…

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Uber to Focus on Core Rides, Delivery Business as it Cuts 23% of Workforce

Uber to Focus on Core Rides, Delivery Business as it Cuts 23% of Workforce

Uber Technologies Inc will concentrate on its core businesses in ride-hailing and food delivery and cut 23% of its workforce in an attempt to become profitable despite the coronavirus pandemic, Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said in an email to employees on Monday.

Uber will cut a total of 6,700 jobs, including the 3,700 it had announced earlier this month, Khosrowshahi said, adding…

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Facebook to Acquire Giphy in a Deal Reportedly Worth $400 Million

Facebook to Acquire Giphy in a Deal Reportedly Worth $400 Million

Facebook will acquire Giphy, the web-based animated gif search engine and platform provider, Facebook confirmed today, in a deal worth around $400 million, according to a report by Axios. Facebook said it isn’t disclosing terms of the deal. Giphy has grown to be a central source for shareable, high-engagement content, and its animated response gifs are available across Facebook’s platforms, as…

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NetOne CEO Lazarus Muchenje, 7 0thers Arrested

NetOne CEO Lazarus Muchenje, 7 0thers Arrested

NetOne Chief Executive Officer Lazarus Muchenje, six senior executives and former board member Paradzai Chakona were arrested yesterday by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on charges of criminal abuse of office.

ZACC spokesperson Commissioner John Makamure confirmed the arrests, but could not give details on the swoop, one of the biggest on a State-owned enterprise since the…

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Wadiwa Wepamoyo YouTube Channel Hacked

Wadiwa Wepamoyo YouTube Channel Hacked

With a significant number of local internet users hooked on College Central’s trending online television production Wadiwa Wepamoyo that has fast taken pole position among the most sought after drama series in the country have just tweeted that their YouTube channel has been hacked.

https://twitter.com/CollegeCentral_/status/1261237117558161409

RELATED READING:WADIWA WEPAMOYO GETS LOCAL…

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Facebook, Telcos to Build Huge Subsea Cable for Africa and Middle East

Facebook, Telcos to Build Huge Subsea Cable for Africa and Middle East

Facebook,  and a group of telecom companies including China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange and Vodafone,  are collaborating to build the “most comprehensive” subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region where nearly a billion people are still offline.

The project, called 2Africa, will see the companies lay cables that will stretch to 37,000km (22,990…

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Cook Off: Zimbabwe's First Feature Film to Start Showing on Netflix

Cook Off: Zimbabwe’s First Feature Film to Start Showing on Netflix

A Zimbabwean romantic comedy, Cook Off the Movie, produced by Joe Njagu and Thomas Brickhill has made history by being the first production to be selected for release on America’s streaming site Netflix.

The development will likely boost confidence in Zimbabwe’s fledgling film industry.

Brickhill, who wrote and directed the movies, said: “We have always wanted the film to do as well as…

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Zimbabwe printing new notes as inflation nears 1,000%

Zimbabwe printing new notes as inflation nears 1,000%

Zimbabwe has begun printing new notes in $10 and $20 denominations at a time when annual inflation stands at 926%, according to a state media report.

Citing Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) monetary policy committee member Eddie Cross, the Sunday Mail report said the decision was “imminent” to increase liquidity in the market.

“The plans are advanced and higher denomination notes will be made…

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Microsoft Now Blocks Reply-all Email Storms to end our inbox Nightmares

Microsoft Now Blocks Reply-all Email Storms to end our inbox Nightmares

Microsoft is rolling out a new reply-all protection feature for Office 365 and Exchange Online. It’s designed to prevent email storms (reply allpocalypse), when hundreds or thousands of people start replying to an email thread after someone forgot to BCC everyone or a distribution list was misconfigured.

The new block feature will mostly benefit large organizations, and is initially being…

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Uber Reports $2.9 Billion Quarterly Loss During Pandemic

Uber Reports $2.9 Billion Quarterly Loss During Pandemic

Uber lost $2.9 billion in the first quarter of 2020, its biggest loss in three quarters. The company also reported $3.54 billion in revenue. Gross bookings in its ride-hailing business fell 3 percent, while bookings in its Uber Eats division were up more than 54 percent year over year, thanks to increased demand for food deliveries.

Uber’s ride-hailing business has plummeted a result of…

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Google Duo Now Allows You to Make Group Video Calls on The Web, Just Like Google Meet

Google Duo Now Allows You to Make Group Video Calls on The Web, Just Like Google Meet

Google’s video chat app got new features this week. No, the other one. No, the other other one.

In a Friday blog post, Google announced some snazzy new features for Duo, one of its three video chat services. Let’s get this out of the way early: Duo is the one that’s mobile-friendly and resembles FaceTime more than Hangouts and Meet.

The new features make more sense with that in mind. Google…

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Google Meet Video Conferencing is now Free for Anybody

Google Meet Video Conferencing is now Free for Anybody

Google is opening up its Google Meet videoconferencing service to anybody who wants to use it, instead of just offering it to enterprise and education customers via G Suite. The company says anybody with a Google account will now be able to create free meetings of up to 100 people that can last any amount of time — though after September 30th it may restrict meeting length to 60 minutes.

That…

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Cassava Fintech Responds To Covid-19, Unveils Sasai TeamTalk With FREE Calls On Sundays

Cassava Fintech Responds To Covid-19, Unveils Sasai TeamTalk With FREE Calls On Sundays

Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of Econet Global, yesterday released an enhanced voice and video conferencing service that allows up to 20 people on one call.

The service, branded Sasai TeamTalk, was unveiled as a promotional offer of FREE Sasai Conference calling, between 8 am and 5 pm every Sunday until the end of the month.

The service is available through the Sasai…

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Huawei to Ramp up Artificial Intelligence to Improve Solar Inverters

Huawei to Ramp up Artificial Intelligence to Improve Solar Inverters

The Chinese conglomerate has revealed how it will further integrate artificial intelligence (AI)in its string devices this year. The approach includes the transformation of inverters into smart PV controllers, the development of AI inference modules and the creation of an AI training and inference platform. Machine learning will also be incorporated into operations and maintenance, grid…

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Vodacom’s Chatbot TOBi Answers up to 20 000 Customer Queries Per day

Vodacom’s Chatbot TOBi Answers up to 20 000 Customer Queries Per day

With the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in full effect, Vodacom has put numerous measures in place to protect customers and employees. These include measures that have seen frontline agents now working from home as well as stepping up its reliance on TOBi – Vodacom’s chatbot.

Using the latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, TOBi was created and designed to resolve issues as quickly and…

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