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Five mobile money providers – Safaricom, Vodacom Tanzania, Tigo Tanzania, Orange Côte d’Ivoire, and Telenor Pakistan – have been certified in the newly introduced GSMA Mobile Money Certification. According to Nathan Naidoo, interim Head of Mobile Money at GSMA and the Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Mobile Money team in…

Ghana’s agritech startup, Agrocenta, has emerged the winner of the 2017 Seedstars Global competition. The winner emerged at the Seedstars summit held in Lausanne, Switzerland yesterday 12th April 2018.  Agrocenta now goes away with the first prize of $500,000 in equity investment. AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder…

Nigeria’s popular internet domain registrar DomainKing.NG today announced that its hosting the 1st Annual ‘Crazy . NG Sale’ this month from 5th April, 2018 to 30th April, 2018. With this special offer, the .ng domain registration will be available for heavily discounted prices that are historically lowest in Nigeria. Com.ng…

On Tuesday this week, a young woman now identified as 39-year-old Nasim Aghdam of San Diego, stormed YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California and shot three people before killing herself. Aghdam appeared to be an active user of YouTube who had posted videos about veganism, fitness and animal cruelty. According to Ed Barberini, the…

Spurred on by the company’s steady growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and in line with its focus on investing in the continent, Mastercard has appointed Raghav Prasad as Division President for Sub-Saharan Africa. Prasad will strengthen the company’s ongoing commitment to delivering value to customers and consumers in Africa by leveraging…

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A Prime giveaway closed on Friday 30th of March, 2018. We had 8,105 entries and after the Rafflecopter draw, the lucky person drawn is …Kamor Yomi Ibn Shobande We have contacted him and he will be receiving the smartphone very soon. Congratulations ? To all those who entered the…

You may not have known his name before his simple act but Ghanaian teacher Richard Appiah Akoto’s drawing of Microsoft Word on a chalkboard made him go viral some months ago. And this got him noticed by many people around the world including Rebecca Enonchong, Cameroonian born technology entrepreneur and also the founder…

Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s Digital Agriculture Platform, is calling on people who want to sponsor maize farms that an opportunity will be open as from to  4th April. Farmcrowdy gives people the opportunity to invest in Agriculture by connecting farm sponsors with real farmers. So the company is making 5,000+ units of Maize Farms available for sponsorship…

Mastercard is calling for applications from Nigerian fintech startups for its Start Path 2018 programme, the company’s initiative that supports innovative later-stage start-ups that are reshaping the future of commerce. The programme is open to startups from Nigeria who are rethinking banking and payments and have raised a significant seed…

Digital content distribution company, Publiseer, and music production and beat distribution company, Caketunes, has today concluded a partnership that will see more African musical contents around the world. Publiseer will distribute beats and songs uploaded on the Caketunes platform to hundreds of well-established music platforms like iTunes, Spotify, Google Play…

Startupbootcamp (SBC), a global family of industry-focused accelerators, last year launched its first-ever Africa-based programme. Building on the rapid success of its inaugural 2017 Cape Town tech venture accelerator programme that catapulted Nigerian startup MOBicure and their flagship application UMOMi into the spotlight, Startupbootcamp Africa will be hosting a FastTrack…

Nigerian based data analytics firm, Terragon Group led by founder and CEO, Elo Umeh, has received a $5million investment from African venture capital firm, TLcom Capital. This is the VC’s second commitment from its $40 million TIDE Africa Fund for early and growth-stage digital companies. According to TLcom Capital Partner, Ido Sum,  “We liked…that…

Zinox Technologies, the new owner of Konga, has announced the appointment of Nick Imudia as the new CEO of the e-commerce company. He replaces the former CEO, Shola Adekoya  who resumes at the Zinox Group headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria as Head of Future Business. According to the press release, Imudia…

SimbaPay a London based digital money transfer provider – today announced the launch of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered chatbot service which now makes International Money Transfer (remittance) possible with only an SMS. The SimbaPay chatbot will also enable 24/7 instant customer service for its customers across Africa and Europe. “We’re…

Until the turn of the last century, banks and high street brokers accounted for a very large percentage of funds crossing borders, but that is no longer the case. With the widespread usage of the Internet came a slew of predominantly online companies, giving individuals and businesses quick, easy, and…

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. introduces the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+, the smartphones that reimagine the way people communicate, share and experience the world. Made for an age in which consumers increasingly communicate and express themselves more with images, videos and emojis, the Galaxy S9 and S9+ drive innovation with…

The preferred bidder for 9mobile, Teleology, has paid the non-refundable $50 million deposit for the acquisition of the telecoms company. It is reported that the $50m payment was made to the Trustee for the bank syndicate presently holding ownership of 9Mobile as a sign of Teleology’s financial capability and readiness…

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, today announces the top 16 finalists for its second edition of the Challenge of Invention to Innovation (Ci2i) innovation competition to be held at the NEF Global Gathering…

Over 10,000 Smartphones bought Within 1-hour of Launch Xiaomi Redmi 5A Prime Gold Remains Highest Selling Smartphone 1 Million Deals Available All Week Long Over 200,000 Vouchers Available on Wheel of Fortune Payment on Delivery on Orders Below N200,000 Barely an hour after Jumia.com.ng launched its biggest phone sale of the year…

Always focus on doing the right thing and cutting out the Noise! Watch Uche Pedro’s Interview with Peace Hyde on Forbes Woman Africa Against The Odds As one of the pioneers of the new media movement, Uche Pedro has always been a strong advocator of the tech sector in Nigeria…