MTN Uganda has not had a good 2019 after Police deported the telecom's Chief Marketing OfficerMr Olivier Prentout and top officials including the Mobile Money manager Ms. Elsa Mussolini, the boiling pan has slid to the Company CEO who is now enjoying the fresh air of his home country.
A decade ago, Facebook was known as one of the fastest rising online based startups with a promising high impact in the future. In 2019, Facebook is the biggest social media platform consititing of all sorts of content creators and ever growing community amidst stiff competition from Twitter and its very own Instagram and Whatsapp platforms.
Huawei today launched world's first core chip specifically designed for 5G base stations, Huawei TIANGANG. At a 5G launch event in Beijing that doubled up as a pre-briefing for the MWC Barcelona 2019, Huawei announced the innovative chip that will support simplified 5G networks and large-scale 5G network deployment all over the world. To date, the company has won 30 commercial 5G contracts and shipped over 25,000 5G base stations globally.
SafeBoda is a boda hailing service that has grown popular from its glory days in 2014 to date with its orange branded drivers shining bright in Kampala as the best motorbike hailing service. Uber boda and Dial Jack are some of the key competitors giving the firm some great head to head competition as Taxify boda is now struggling step by step down the ladder to a point that it may exit Uganda.
Airbus and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have announced the top 10 African startups selected for their Future 4 Africa Accelerator. All startups listed were chosen basing on their aerospace based soltuions aiming at solving social-community challenges like transportation, healthcare and agriculutre in the pipeline.
