Four African airlines were flying the Boeing 737 Max 8 passenger plane, before Sunday's crash. South Africa's privately owned Comair received its first plane just two weeks ago, becoming the first airline in southern Africa to operate the passenger jet. The airline has ordered seven more, with one expected to
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Raxio’s Data Centre Gets Nod From Stakeholders As BoU Roots For Shared ICT Infrastructure
The financial services sector has been challenged to adopt a shared technology services delivery model, thereby cutting down the cost of doing business and pass on those benefits to customers in form of reduced cost of lending. The call was made by Dr. Tumubweine Twinemanzi, the Executive Director Supervision, at Bank
Read MoreThe e2 Young Engineers Uganda, the first ever practical Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programme for children aged 4-15 years using a LEGO curriculum has been unveiled in Uganda. Launching the Programme yesterday in Kampala, the African School of Innovations Science and Technology (ASIST) Limited’s Managing Director, Arinaitwe Rugyendo
Read MoreThe Deported Uganda MTN Chief Executive Officer New MTN Uganda CEO; Wim Vanhelleputte (in featured photo) has dragged the Attorney general of Uganda to court seeking orders to quash his deportation following an order issued by the Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Jeje Odongo on February 14th 2019, KFM reports. He
Read MoreThe Mastercard Foundation in partnership with BFA on February 27, 2019 released Digital Commerce and Youth Employment in Africa, new research that shows 80 million young people will benefit from the rise of digital commerce in Africa by 2030. These findings indicate that the digital commerce sector has the potential
Read MoreBy REUTERSMTN Uganda has denied government accusations it has been understating its revenues and said it was fully meeting all its tax obligations. Relations between the telecoms firm and the country have been strained over a series of issues including deportations of its top executives, accusations of under-reporting revenues and
Read MoreEmirates airline today announced an order for 40 A330-900 aircraft, and 30 A350-900 aircraft, in a heads of agreement signed with Airbus. The deal is worth US$ 21.4 billion at list prices. The latest generation Airbus A330neo and A350 aircraft will be delivered to Emirates starting from 2021 and 2024
Read MoreAirtel Uganda has today announced the availability of countrywide 4G LTE connectivity after completing modernization of their network. Upon this investment, Airtel currently boasts of 1,632 sites andover 3,900 kilometers of fiber across Uganda covering 95.9% population, making it possible for subscribers around the country to enjoy an improved experience
Read MoreThe Traditional CV Is Dying As Employers Leverage New Technology To Find Ideal Candidates
In the next three years, top HR executives and employers have asserted that the biggest impact on recruitment will be Technology Augmenting the Hiring Process. In other words, how technology will make the hiring process more effective through easier filtering and more accurate matching. This discovery, along with other invaluable
Read MoreBy Our Reporter Hamilton Cloud Services (HCS), Uganda’s first local cloud service provider and a subsidiary of Hamilton Telecom, on Thursday, February 7th 2019, finalised an agreement to colocate their servers in Raxio Data Centre’s state-of-the-art, always-on data centre at the Kampala Industrial and Business Park, Namanve. Raxio announced its
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