Applications for the World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator for a chance to get access to mentorship, financial support, and WFP operations, partners and technical experts. The selected startups will be invited to participate in a Bootcamp, to be held 4-8 June 2018 in Munich, Germany, where they will use human-centred design and…
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Farmcrowdy has been named as one of the recipients of $325,000 grant from GSMA global team Mobile for Development as part of the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund. The award was granted at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. The grant will allow the agricultural startup develop a mobile app for smartphones…
Ride-hailing service, Uber is pulling out of Morocco – a decision the San Francisco-headquartered company says is linked to the North African country’s failure to reform or relax its strict transport rules. For almost three years, Uber has been operating illegally in Morocco – despite currently having 19,000 users in the country and…
Twitter lost almost all of the money it had invested in SoundCloud, the company disclosed as part of its 2017 annual report. The company had to write off a total of $66.4 million of the $70 million it had invested into the music service in 2016, according to the filing. Twitter had been…
Running a startup is difficult to let alone managing a startup with your twin brother. If you have not heard of this before, you need to read this interview to know how Chidi and Chika Nwaogu are administering Publiseer. Innovation Village had an interview with Chidi Nwaogu, Co-founder and CEO of Publiseer…
Brian Acton, the co-founder of the popular messaging app WhatsApp, is investing $50 million in Signal. This is according to a blog post making the announcement. Acton said in the post: “Our plan is to pioneer a new model of technology nonprofit focused on privacy and data protection for everyone, everywhere.”…
Nigerian e-library startup, Panacea has launched an Android app version of the platform, which allows users to rent books, search for study mates and create book clubs. Panacea, which was launched for author registration and uploads in July 2017, has launched the beta version of its Android app which will see…
Nigerian startup and digital publisher, Publiseer, has announced that it was selected as one of the 14 finalists of the 2018 Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition, taking place in Boston, MA, United States, on March 2, 2018. The Africa Business Club at Harvard Business School will be hosting the…
What will the world look like in the next 5-10 years if this technology mania or fixation continues? Well, the CEO of Uber Technologies Inc Dara Khosrowshahi has an idea as he says he can see commercialisation of the Uber Air flying taxi service becoming reality within five to 10…
One of the biggest challenges currently facing Europe and other nations of the world is the problem of migration, especially from the African continent notwithstanding whether it is legal or illegal. We have seen African migrants braving deadly and perilous conditions to travel to Europe through North Africa to seek…
Powerstove™ is revolutionary clean-cookstove technology in Sub-Saharan Africa that merges thermoelectric technology with the traditional African way of cooking. It generates 8W of power up to a maximum of 20W while cooking. This clean-cookstove have won several awards even though they are yet to launch. Innovation Village had an interview…
Google has removed the “view image” tab that appeared when you clicked on a picture, which allowed you to open the image alone. That means that users can no longer have direct access to the picture they would search for or download for later use. It means that people will only…
When it comes to the Fashion business in Nigeria, one of the persons to speak to is Ochije Nnani. Nnani has worked in two of Nigeria’s leading e-commerce companies-Jumia & Konga. Hence, it was not a surprise when he was appointed the Country Manager of Fazsion.ng. Innovation Village had an exclusive…
Ride-hailing transport company, Uber’s full-year net loss widened to $4.5 billion in 2017 as the company endured a difficult year that included scandals and the replacement of its chief executive. The results also showed that Uber cut its fourth-quarter net loss by 25% compared with the third quarter as new…
iflix, announced it has entered into a major two-year distribution agreement with LEGO Systems (‘LEGO’) to add a wide range of the most popular LEGO series to iflix’s extensive library of award-winning titles. iflix will offer its subscribers across the Middle East and Africa unlimited access to both stream and download…
Startupbootcamp (SBC), last year launched its first-ever Africa-based programme. Building on the success of its inaugural 2017 Cape Town tech venture accelerator program, SBC Cape Town now embarks upon its FastTrack tour for 2018. Startupbootcamp Cape Town kicks off 2018 by hosting a FastTrack world tour that will include 19 FastTracks across…
South Korea has reportedly signed a deal to train over 22, 000 public servants in Nigeria on e-government, according to Abdulaziz Abdullahi, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Communications. The South Korean government is executing the training through the Korean International Corporation Agency (KOICA). According to him, the partnership which…
Google has unveiled its own version of stories to compete with Snapchat and Instagram with image-driven news articles aimed at mobile phone and tablet users. This will be a new way to share and view stories in its search engine. The feature, which offers swipeable slides of text, photos, graphics…
Black Panther will be released on February 16th and many fans cannot wait for it to hit the big screen. Before then, the action movie has broken a record as it has become the most-tweeted-about movie in the world this year. Breaking the Twitter record for 2018, Black Panther has amassed more than…
Hubs.ng is a digital ecosystem that enables Nigerians to perform over 12 different transactions including Hubs music, Hubs sites, classified, business directory, Job board, account manager, Ads server, Hubs event, project management Hub and much more. Innovation Village caught up with Itopaking David in this interview where he told us about he…