Apple has officially said goodbye to the iPod models. The company announced that it would stop making the iPod Touch. This ends a 20-year run for a product line that led to the creation of the iPhone and helped Silicon Valley become the centre of capitalism around the world. The iPod has been in the […]

Moroccan animated films have been made for the first time. Moroccan TV stations Al Oula and 2M collaborated with Meknes’ international vibrant film festival FICAM to commission a test run for 2019. The Very First of Its Kind in Morocco’s Film Industry “It is the first animated series that is entirely Moroccan, from start to […]

American subscription streaming service and production company Netflix will assist in producing three films in Kenya and invest Sh33 million ($284,719.05) in actor training in the country. According to the US streaming service, the three productions will be unveiled later, closer to their premiere dates on the site. Thanks to the sponsor’s support, Kenyan students […]

The American subscription streaming service and production company, Netflix said it will invest R900 million ($62 million) between 2022 and 2023 in South African film and television productions. The announcement was made at the Annual Investment Conference in Johannesburg, Sandton on Thursday 24 March 2022. Shola Sanni, Netflix’s director of public policy for Sub-Saharan Africa, […]

The Walt Disney Company has confirmed that its streaming service, Disney Plus, also known as Disney+, will launch in South Africa in May and four other African countries in winter (between 21 June and 22 September) 2022. The other African countries include Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. The company mentioned that details such as subscription […]

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission ( FCCPC ) on Friday 18/3/2022 charged MultChoice Nigeria Limited a subsidiary of MultiChoice Group regarding an allegation of “abuse of dominance”. On August 28, 2022, the commission issued a notice of commencement of investigation (NCI) pursuant to Section 157 and 158 of the Federal Competition and Consumer […]

The Cable News Network, based in Atlanta, Georgia, a multinational news-based pay television channel, is actively seeking more distribution partners for its upcoming subscription-based CNN+ streaming service, which will launch later this month. CNN is a WarnerMedia company owned by AT&T. It currently has agreements in place with distributors like Apple and Roku, but it […]

Africa has traditionally lagged far behind other continents in gaming due to its poverty and infrastructure issues, such as unreliable telecommunications and electricity supply. According to a study by Newzoo, the number of gamers in sub-Saharan Africa jumped from 77 million in 2015 to 186 million in 2021, an incredible increase. As the continent embraces […]

YouTube, an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google launched on February 14 2005, has witnessed increased channel growth and subscriber growth on its platform on an annual basis. During this year’s YouTube Annual Roundtable virtual meeting, Mr Alex Okosi, Managing Director, Emerging Markets, YouTube EMEA, revealed the figures, saying Kenya’s […]

The high court, sitting in Pretoria, has sided with Vodacom’s former employer, Nkosana Makate, regarding the “please call me” idea. The constitutional court recently decided this long-running legal battle in favour of Makate as the inventor of this idea, thereby entitled to a settlement. The judgement found that Vodacom underpaid him and must decide on […]

Kenya telecom giant Safaricom, which accounts for 63.6% market share of the mobile telecom operator in Kenya, takes a shot at Spotify after announcing the expansion of its Baze platform to include music, enabling its customers to enjoy a mobile-first, ad-free, music streaming experience from as little as KES 10 per day. Baze was initially […]