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Leading telecoms giant, Airtel Africa, has signed an agreement with Pan-African bank, Ecobank to allow Airtel Money and Ecobank customers across Africa to improve their access to mobile financial services and carry out a variety of mobile transactions. This partnership will enable Airtel Money customers, through Ecobank’s digital financial services…

Deepening Interconnection and Cooperation to Jointly Build an Informationized Africa

OPPO leads fast charge in the 5G era with the launch of 65W SuperVOOC, 30W Wireless VOOC and VOOC 4.0

Beats by Dre has unveiled its first on-ear, noise cancelling headphones, named Beats Solo Pro. Beats Solo Pro adds the noise cancelling feature to the on-ear form factor shared by the company’s long line of previous Solo headphones. “The Solo form factor is incredibly popular, with over 30 million sold…

Nigerian lender, Lidya, is set to take its business to Eastern Europe, targeting specifically Poland and Czech Republic. It plans to disburse over $1.1 billion in loans over the next five years to small businesses unable to get bank loans. According to Ercin Eksin, co-founder of Lidya in an interview…

Uber has laid off another set of employees in its third final phase of restructuring to enable it prepare for the future. The first layoff of 400 employees which was in July this year affected the marketing function. The second, in September, affected 435 employees in the Product and Engineering…

American actress, writer, director, producer, and web series creator, Issa Rae has been revealed as Google Assistant’s second celebrity voice. John Legend was the first celebrity voice chosen by Google for this initiative. Henceforth Issa Rae’s voice is available as a cameo on the Google Assistant, in English for a…

Health care startup, Doctoora has won the NES25 startup pitch competition and is going home with 5 million Naira. Six hundred and eighty-nine (689) applications were received for the startup pitching competition and after a rigorous selection process, 10 finalists were selected. Doctoora beat nine other applicants to win the…

Days after PayPal announced that it was dropping out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency association, a host of other companies have opted out of the association. They include Mastercard, Visa and Ebay amongst others. This was expected from Mastercard and Visa as they had earlier indicated intention to leave. Since Facebook…

Just four months after ride-hailing company, Uber, said it was planning a boat service in Nigeria, it has started the pilot run of UberBOAT service in Lagos. The launch event happened on Friday and was chaired by His Excellency, the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The pilot run, which…

To commemorate World Sight Day (September 10), Google unveiled a new feature on Google Maps to aid visually impaired people. The feature, Detailed Voice Guidance, is particularly helpful to visually impaired people moving on foot. It can also be used to reassure people with sight and those who would rather…

Andy Rubin, the ex-Googler behind Essential Products has just tweeted some pictures about a new device from the company, probably in development, that looks more like a remote control than a smartphone. Is it the next smartphone we should be expecting from the company? Would it change the fortunes of…

Facebook announced that it has added ten more countries in Sub-sahara Africa to its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme. When added to Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon and Senegal,  this brings the total in Africa to fifteen. The programme was launched in Nigeria in October 2018. In partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP),…

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system.

Whether you are setting out to hire the first employee in your new business or have a few already, there are always important factors that you need to consider. These come from both a business perspective and from a candidate perspective. You first need to understand why, when and how…

At the recent Microsoft Surface event held early in the week, Microsoft unveiled five new products coming this holiday and two new dual-screen devices – Surface Neo and Surface Duo – coming next holiday, 2020. The products are as follows: Surface Laptop 3Surface Pro 7Surface Pro XSurface earbudsWindows 10XSurface NeoSurface…

With all the noise about foldables like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Royole Flexi-Pai mobile phone, Microsoft has unveiled its own version of foldable phone – Surface Duo and foldable tablet – Surface Neo. These two devices were among the six new devices unveiled by the tech giant two…

Uber has extended its tentacles into a new area; this time into jobs. It has launched a job platform for temps called Uber Works. Uber believes that “workers face rigid scheduling and opaque information about where they can pick up shifts and how much they can expect to earn. Businesses…

We reported some weeks that Facebook was working on another messaging app to compete with Snapchat. Now it has launched the app. It is called Threads by Instagram. Facebook calls the app “Threads by Instagram – a new camera-first messaging app that helps you stay connected to your close friends.”…

Smartphone data set to revolutionise credit scoring and jumpstart financial inclusion in Nigeria