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Farmshine’s Agriculture Operating System enables fully transparent management of the Agriculture Value Chain, and facilitates Direct Trading between Farmers and Large Buyers

Africa’s most preferred Smartphone brand, TECNO, just broke the seams of innovation with their new smartphone Camon 12 Air. There are a number of firsts with this incredible new gadget. For the first time with any TECNO device, Camon 12 Air comes with a sleek Dot-In Display that sets the…

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have announced that they are stepping down for Sundar Pichai to become the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. According to the founders in a blog post, “Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a President. Going forward, Sundar will be the…

The goal is to support Winpart and their customers grow their business while managing their inventory with quasi just-in-time leanness

TECNO’s Black Friday has to be the biggest, most generous flash sale in the history of flash sales! TECNO is a brand that truly cares for Nigerians, they understand that a lot of Nigerians depend on this time of the year to buy things at discounted prices. And so, year…

You know (and in case you don’t, here is good information for you), that the Camon series by TECNO is targeted at photography lovers who understand that they don’t necessarily have to break the bank before they take ‘awe-tastic’ pictures with their mobile phones. The first smartphone under the Camon…

Innovation Village is giving away one (1) Tecno Spark 4 smartphone. Launched in Nigeria in October 2019, The Tecno Spark 4 retails for N34,500 in Nigeria. However this can be yours free of charge if you participate in this giveaway. Key features of smartphone are as follows: Display: 6.52-inch HD dot notch…

Transsnet Music’s media streaming and download service,Boomplay, has announced a new partnership with Sony Music Entertainment is a media streaming and download service developed by Transsnet Music Limited which will see the platform having Sony’s internationally recognised repertoire on board! Boomplay is easily one of the biggest and fastest growing…

You have heard of music streaming, video streaming. Now there is game streaming, courtesy of Google. Google has just launched a new game streaming service called Stadia. Stadia is a new video game platform, delivering instant access to your favorite games on any type of screen—whether it’s  a TV, laptop,…

Fresh from raising $120 million to scale up operations in Nigeria, Chinese backed startup, OPay, has added another service, OCar, to its already teeming list of services in Nigeria. The startup already has the following on its platform: ORide – a bike-hailing serviceOTrike – a tri-cycle hailing serviceOBus – a…

Verve International has successfully carried out its first transaction with its Verve card in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This was made possible due to the company’s partnership with Discover Global Network. The transaction event marks Verve International’s first entrance into the UAE region. Verve Global cardholders can now use their…

Nigeria’s medical supplies logistics company, LifeBank, has added drone delivery as its latest mobility solution. Hitherto, Lifebank has been able to deliver medical supplies either by bikes or boats. With the successful test of the first drone flight which took off in Ethiopia, it can now boast of being able…

In a pulsating televised finale event “Africa’s Business Heroes” which took place yesterday in Accra, Ghana, Temie Giwa-Tubosun of Lifebank Nigeria won the 1st prize of $250,000 in Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize. The ten finalists made their pitches before four world class judges which consisted of Alibaba founder Jack…

OPPO yesterday launched the new Reno2 Series in the Nigerian market by 7pm at the LASWA Jetty, Ikoyi, Lagos. The Reno2 and Reno2 F models are the latest of OPPO’s popular Reno series that will change the boundaries of users’ creativity, coming packed with photography-enhancing features. The quad-camera setup includes 5x…

Today, KaiOS Technologies announced that Life, an in-house educational app for KaiOS-powered smart feature phones, is now available in Africa. KaiOS users in Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa can now find the app available for download via the KaiStore, with more countries coming soon. Life serves as a trusted educational resource for first-time internet users, and…

PalmPay, an Africa-focused payments startup is launching in Nigeria on Wednesday after receiving $40 million investment from a group of investors led by Chinese mobile-phone maker, Transsion. Transsion is the Chinese company behind smartphones brands, Tecno, Infinix and itel. According to a Transsion spokesman, the investment came via Transsion’s Tecno subsidiary,…

Egypt-based online pharmacy Yodawy, announced that it has raised $1 million in Series A round led by Egypt’s Algebra Ventures and CVentures, with participation from ASI Ventures, an angel investor firm. Founded in 2018 by Karim Khashaba, Sherief El-Feky, and Yasser AbdelGawad, Yodawy is Egypt’s largest online medication ordering and…

Pan- African ecommerce giant, Jumia has released its 3rd quarter results for the period ending 30th September 2019. Its results show an increase in the company’s losses from €40.6 million in Q2 to €54.6 million in Q3, a 34% increase. The company attributes a large portion of the dismal performance…

Orange is partnering with itel, the leading mobile brand in Africa and, once again, with KaiOS Technologies, maker of the leading operating system for smart feature phone KaiOS, to launch a new 4G version of the Sanza Phone, “Sanza XL”. This was announced at the ongoing AfricaCom event taking place…

To unveil the high-end Reno2 Series, OPPO Mobile Nigeria recently announced a brand partnership with Nigeria’s leading fashion and style entrepreneur, media personality and acclaimed writer, Toke Makinwa on its Social Media pages. Speaking about this partnership, the Marketing Manager, OPPO Mobile Nigeria, Nengi Akinola emphasised that the partnership with…