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Ayoba has partnered MusicTime to bring free music listening to ayoba users, with the launch of a new feature in the ayoba app titled MusicTime in ayoba. MusicTime is a unique, localized Android app offering “pay as you go” music streaming as well as limited free music listening. MusicTime in ayoba…

Samsung Electronics Nigeria has unveiled its 2020 consumer products range. The launch which held in Victoria Island, Lagos showcased the latest in its revolutionary and innovative QLED and Crystal UHD Television Series along with Wind Free Air Conditioners, Side by Side Refrigerators and Drum Washing Machines. Keeping with its resolve…

Singapore will be the first country to use facial verification technology for its National Identity Scheme. The verification software can verify the individual and also tell if the person is present or not. According to Andrew Bud, founder and chief executive of iProov, the UK company that is providing the…

September 27 marks Google’s 22nd birthday. Even though Google officially debuted on September 8, 1998, the company chose to celebrate its birthday on September 27. This year’s Google Doodle shows the letter “G” making a video call with the other letters, incorporating social distancing in the picture. According to Google on…

First bank of Nigeria. in partnership with the Lagos State Government in Nigeria, has launched a N5 billion ($13 million) support fund to help reduce the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on low-cost private schools in Lagos by ensuring lending at an attractive interest rate. This was disclosed via the state…

TIME Magazine has revealed its list of 100 most influential people in the world and six Africans including three Nigerians were on that list. The list, now in its seventeenth year, recognises the activism, innovation, and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. The Africans on the list are as…

While we still wait for audio tweets to be available across all platforms, Twitter says it is testing voice DMs. In June this year, Twitter announced that it was rolling out audio tweets on iOS and while we are still expecting this on Android platform, Alex Ackerman-Greenberg, product manager for…

The NaijaHacks Hackathon is returning with the 2020 NaijaHacks from home (#NaijaHacksFromHome) edition on October 30 to 31, 2020. This year, the Technology Invention Competition or Hackathon, the biggest in Africa, will focus on enabling youth across the continent to create, innovate, and learn virtually from the comfort of their…

Greenlight Planet, a Pay-As-You-Go Solar company, operating in Africa and India has secured $90 million from a team lead by UK’s CDC Group. The other investors include FMO and Norfund, in addition to impact investors ResponsAbility, SIMA Funds, Symbiotics, Global Partnerships, and private equity firm ARCH Emerging Markets Partners’ Africa…

Olam has been recognised for making a difference in farmers’ lives through its Olam Direct platform at Innovation Leader’s 2020 Impact Awards. Now in its third year, Innovation Leader’s Impact Awards honour companies with corporate innovation initiatives that have run for at least a year and delivered extraordinary outcomes with measurable business…

Kirusa, a global leader in communication solutions over data networks, today announced the launch of the first of its kind RichOTP service that enables brands to send One Time Passwords (OTPs) through the rich media messaging channel of RCS (Rich Communication Services). OTPs are widely used by brands for signing-into apps, to…

As we enter the final stretch of what has been a generally disastrous year, we can take stock of the damage that Covid-19 has caused to the economy. New research from Technavio suggests that the microcontroller market might be one of the luckier sectors. Microcontroller Market Highlights Covid-19 has hit…

The Online portal for the registration of beneficiaries for N75 billion Survival Fund for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) opens today Monday 21 September at 10.00p.m. local time. The MSME Survival Fund is a conditional grant to support vulnerable micro and small enterprises in meeting their payroll obligations and…

Mono, an API Fintech startup, has just secured $500,000 pre-seed funding from Lateral Capital, Ventures Platform and Golden Palm. Other investors include Rally cap, Idriss bello, Olumide Soyombo. With this new funding, Mono intends to primarily invest in the following: Mono intends to be the go-to financial data infrastructure API platform in Africa; to…

Zeena Platform and Power Bits Crunchers emerged winners at the recently concluded Lagos Smart Meter Hackathon. Zeena Platform won in the software category while Power Bit Crunchers won in the hardware category. There were 274 entries and 10 finalists for the hackathon. The 10 finalists were: 5 finalists from hardware…

Nigeria can unlock its full economic potentials if majority (if not all) of its citizens have digital identity as proposed by the National Identity programme. This call was made by Mitchell Elegbe, Founder and Group Managing Director, Interswitch Group, during a webinar organised by TechCabal in partnership with VerifyMe themed:…

Founders Factory Africa (‘FFA’) announced today that it has selected a new Health venture RxAll into its Venture Scale programme. The venture development company, along with its corporate investors Netcare Group and Standard Bank Group, are excited to welcome the business founded by CEO and Founder Adebayo Alonge, and Co-Founders Amy Kao…

All is set for the 2020 edition of the Konga Freedom Sales, an annual promotion by the foremost composite e-Commerce giant targeted at celebrating Nigeria’s independence anniversary. Specifically, the Konga Freedom Sales goes live on Monday, September 21, 2020 and will run until Friday, October 9, 2020 across Nigeria. The…

Chinese ByteDance is seeking a $60 billion valuation for TikTok as it has agreed to Oracle and Walmart acquisition of 12.5% and 7.5% stakes respectively in the new company called TikTok Global. TikTok Global will be responsible for providing all TikTok services to users in United States and most of…

South African Gospel song “Jerusalema” has been officially announced as the most Shazamed song in the world. This announcement was made by the audiovisual identification app, Shazam, on Twitter. The song has been shazamed more than 4.5 million times Recorded by producer Master KG and featuring vocals by Nomcebo, the hit…