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Boomplay, a leading music streaming and download service in Africa has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Warner Music, making available the label’s catalog to millions of fans in Nigeria, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Founded in 2015, Boomplay is owned by China-based Transsnet…

Marvel Studios has dropped a new trailer from the much anticipated Avengers:  Endgame movie coming up next month. It is just a bunch of old clips from the last movie because Marvel is understandably trying to give a lot away before the movie release. Any clip from the new movie…

Pan African ecommerce site Jumia has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. Rumours of this action has been on for quite some time but according to Techcrunch, this is the first time that the CEO Sacha Poignonnec is confirming the action. Though the…

The GSMA today announced the first speakers for the 2019 Mobile 360 Series – West Africa conference, which will take place 16-17 April at the Radisson Blu Abidjan Airport Hotel in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The event sponsors include Mastercard (Headline Sponsor), Visa (Industry Sponsor) and Intelsat (Supporting Sponsor). “The mobile…

Olumide Olusanya, CEO and founder of Gloo.ng has announced the new business that the ecommerce online business would be pivoting to. Olumide early in the year, announced that he was shutting down the ecommerce business and launching a new business. The new business is a B2B e-procurement business called Gloopro. Publicly…

Sam Altman is transitioning from the role of the President to Chairman of Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley accelerator. In a blog post shared by the company, other partners have taken up Sam’s operational responsibilities. This change will allow Sam to spend more time focusing on OpenAI while still being responsible, along with…

Sophia, the world’s first Humanoid Robot, will be making an appearance at the  World Artificial Intelligence (AI) Show taking place in Nairobi, Kenya. World AI Show is a thought-leadership-driven, business-focused, global series of events taking place in strategic locations across the world. The show is part of a world tour that…

As announced at the 2018 AfricaCom event in Cape Town, South Africa, MTN has launched an N8000 ($22) budget smartphone in Nigeria. It is called the MTN Smart T. According to Rahul De, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of MTN Nigeria, the device was designed to make smartphones affordable in the country…

Her name is Kylie Jenner. She is only 21 and she is the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. It used to be Mark Zuckerberg who held the title at the age of  23. And she is a Kardashian. According to a Forbes report, most of Kylie Jenner’s money is…

Kerb, the Airbnb for parking, has landed in Kenya. The Australian parking App changes the conventional view about where people can park their cars, motorbikes, boats and even helicopters! Kerb’s technology unlocks empty spaces across the world’s busiest cities, helping individuals, businesses and governments save time and money. Launched in 2016,…

According to Bloomberg in its Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Nigerian Aliko Dangote is the 65th richest person in the world. As at today 28 February , he is worth $16.6 billion The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. The index is a dynamic measure of personal…

This story shows the power of social media and the limitless possibilities available. This is not a fairy tale. A Nigerian artist, Eli Waduba based in Kaduna, put out a message on Twitter about his painting asking for people to retweet it so that Kevin Hart would see it thousands…

I thought I had seen it all….until now. A camera with five cameras. HMD Global has just unveiled a Nokia smartphone with five cameras called the Nokia 9 Pureview at the Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona It is truly the first smartphone with 5 cameras on the rear. But it…

Huawei has just unveiled its own version of a foldable phone, the Huawei Mate X at its Huawei MWC 2019 Global Product launch which took place at the the Mobile World Congress scheduled to open officially tomorrow, 25th February 2019. This is the second foldable phone unveiled within a week…

HMD is holding a press conference at MWC in Barcelona to showcase some Nokia-branded phones. Click the YouTube screen below to watch the 2019 Global Product Launch which kicks off at 4.00p.m Nigerian time/3.00p.m. London time/ 10.00a.m. New York time https://youtu.be/elAswy-X7fA

With the Mobile World Congress starting officially from tomorrow, 25th February 2019, not many companies would wait for the opening to unveil their devices. Samsung did not wait for the opening day to introduce its own Samsung 10 line of phones and Xiaomi also unveiled its MI 9 smartphone ahead…

Late last night, Google conversion onebox showed that one dollar was exchanged for 184 Naira as against the true rate of about 360. This went viral and elicited interesting reactions on social media. And this even caused a favourite currency exchange site, Abokifx.com, to crash for a while presumably due…

Oye Akideinde, former Regional Director for Boomplay Music in West Africa has been appointed as the Head of Over the Top (OTT) Music Services at MTN Group’s newly acquired music streaming entity, Simfy Africa. The appointment takes effect from 1st February 2019. His role will will enhance the company’s digital music…

Kimberly-Clark, manufacturers of Huggies and Kotex diapers has announced that it will be closing down its factory in Nigeria in the 2nd quarter of 2019. Kimberly-Clark West Africa, a subsidiary of the US-based Kimberly-Clark Corporation, began operations in 2012 in Lagos, Nigeria. The American personal care company had earlier stated that it…

This year, 17 African startups will be among the 67 startups from Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East competing to be the next Seedstars Global winner. The winner will emerge at the sixth edition of the annual Seedstars Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 2-5. Organised by Seedstars World, the summit is the…