TNW Africa hadearlier reportedon the on-going price wars and shrinking Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)rates in African countries such as Kenya. In a bid to diversify their revenue streams, Kenyan telecoms giants,SafaricomandTelkom Kenyarecently rolled out e-health services to tap into the opportunities in the country’s nascent e-health sector. “Safaricom has employed a wide-network infrastructure across and there is therefore opportunity for us to layer on services that make a difference to the Mwananchi,” Safaricom’s Enterprise Business General Manager, Sylvia Mulinge said in a recent statement....

Famed angel investor, Digg co-founder and Milk CEO,Kevin Rose, recently posted a public status update to his Facebook profile stating, “so far Facebook has the best follower (subscriber) to click ratio.. more tests/results soon.” Rose provides the following click-through stats for hisBurning Man linkafter 1hr, 10PM PST. Though this is the result of only one test with the feature being brand new, the findings are still staggering. Rose has over 1....

Photo sharing appInstagramis one of the major success stories from the app world, notching up a cool million downloads within three months of launch in October 2010. Today it has over 9m registered users and well over 10m downloads under its belt, despite only being available on theApple App Store. Sometimes an app is just so sweet, you can’t help but keep talking about it, even indirectly. For example, we’ve coveredWeb-basedalternatives to Instagram, put Instagram upagainstPicPlz, looked at a neatscreensaverfor Instagram, examined10 early adopterbrands that are using the app, uncovered5 complementaryInstagram apps and even found a pretty decentAndroid alternativeto its iOS counterpart....

Have you ever forgotten your keys and felt like the world was about to end? (Or that you were about to drop $200 on a locksmith?) This simple, built-in mechanical solution called “Dial-a Door,” was designed by Jess Han to give homeowners another option for opening doors. Simply spin the dials to four chosen numbers, then push down the handle and open the door. The tumblers automatically re-jumble to prevent another person from simply re-opening the door later on....

“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you” sang The Beatles in ‘Julia’, using a phrase spoken by the third best-selling poet of all time after Shakepare and Lao-Tzu. Lebanese-American Khalil Gibran. Celebrating the birthday of one of world’s most celebrated poets, he lays between Google’s second ‘0’ & ‘l’ in a Doodle that reminds us of such masterpieces as ‘The Prophet‘ that has resonated in global literature and popular culture since its creation in 1923....