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OLX is a buyer to buyer platform that had made itself a name in Africa as the head to head Jumia competitor. Well, the platform will be soon no more after acquisition by Jiji __a Nigerian based online shopping website. As much as you loved the OLX looks with an orange touch to their design, Jiji will rank things up with a blue flame on a secure platform for secure real-time buying and selling between registered users.

After the Galaxy fold, Mate x and an upcoming yet to be named Xiaomi release, we all know Tecno mobile will be the manufacturer under pressure to fill the East African gap with a hefty pack of demand in Uganda. So, as much as the 1st April teaser was a fool's day prank since the brand mentioned a 4 folds release, we believe a foldable Tecno smartphone is in the pipeline and our expectations are just in high gear for a 2019 date.

Well, the SIM card registration resurrected last week and UCC now requires selected subscribers to reverify their SIMcards. For instance, If you receive a message like "Y’ello, You have more than one number registered under your NIN. Please visit any Airtel Shop with your National ID to confirm them"  from your telco, then you're one of the subscribers who will face a touch penalty once the registered sim cards are not re-verified

MTN Uganda customers are celebrating the spice of enjoying one rate for calling all local networks at only 4shs per second. The new rate was announced by the Yello team off their Twitter account, and within a short time, the move was endorsed by the Hon Minister of ICT Frank Tumwebaze in a tweet back.

All 3 taxi hailing services, Uber, Bolt, and Little cab have different price estimations depending on the distance covered encompassed to the current traffic situations. In Africa, all 3 services hike prices during on peak hours and times when riders are beyond the maximum rate. So, the cost per trip is usually not static but instead calculated basing on these native figures per hailing service.

WhatsApp is currently the most popular Instant messaging (IM) for smartphones of all time. While it was not an easy journey to take over from the Yahoo messenger, AIM, and Skype strides. The messaging platform is becoming a resource for governing institutions every now and then attracting sanctions to the creators.