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Apple has released a cure for the iPhone X becoming unresponsive in cold weather. The issue was reported some days ago by a Reddit user and Apple duly acknowledged it. Apple promised to provide a fix as soon as possible. In line with this, Apple has released the fix in its…

This time we are giving away a Tecno Spark K7. This smartphone was introduced into the Nigerian market on the 18th of August in Lagos, Nigeria. Specially designed for the youth market, here are the specifications for the phone. Operating System – Android 7.0 (Nougat) Screen Size – 5.5? display Processor…

The Infinix Hot 5 competition closed on Thursday 16th of November 2017. We had 2,490 entries and after the Rafflecopter draw, the lucky person drawn is ….JaneFrances Anthony. We have contacted her and she will be receiving the smartphone very soon. Congratulations JaneFrances  ? To all those who entered the draw, better…

The Nigerian Women’s Bobsled team made up of Bobsled pilot Seun Adigun, and brakemen Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga, will be the first African team to be at a Winter Olympics. They will be at the 2018 Winter Olympics taking place in PyeongChang, South Korea in February 2018. The team completed the…

Elon Musk says he will be unveiling his semi-electric truck at 8PM PT / 11PM ET (16th of November 2017) which is 04:00 Friday, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The event will take place in Hawthorne, California. He indicated the date of the unveiling on Sunday, 12th of November. He had previously scheduled…

Nigeria’s biggest online booking agency, Hotels.ng, has announced the launch of its mobile app which was created to ease the process of finding and booking hotels for its users. The company’s CEO, Mark Essien, stated via Twitter that the Hotels.ng app was developed by members of its 2017 internship programme.…

Visa today announced the addition of three athletes who make up the Nigerian Women’s Bobsled Team to Team Visa, currently training to become the first ever African representatives, men or women, to qualify for the Olympic Winter Games in the sport of Bobsled. Together, Bobsled pilot Seun Adigun, and brakemen…

Clemens Weitz, previously COO of Ringier Africa Classifieds, has now been appointed as CEO of ROAM (Ringier One Africa Media). And as of November 13th, 2017, ROAM, the merged entity of Ringier Africa and One Africa Media (OAM) became official and operational. Ringier Africa and One Africa Media (OAM) agreed to merge their pan-African Classifieds assets to create…

Nigeria’s leading social innovation centre, Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), through its EdTech practice (re:learn) has partnered with 7 European and African countries to secure 1.5 million Euros to improve students’ participation in STEM subjects across Africa. GO-GA (Go-Lab Goes Africa) is a European Commission funded collaborative project under the Horizon 2020 Research and…

Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform has introduced a new category of funding small scale farming in Africa by allowing Nigerians to venture and sponsor agriculture; and today, announced the launch of its first app for Android, iOS and Windows mobile devices. Techstars Atlanta alumnus, Farmcrowdy is reshaping…

Startup Grind Lagos is set to host Former Minister of Communication Technology and now Venture Capitalist, Omobola Johnson later this month. Omobola Johnson is a lead general partner for TLcom Capital which recently raised a $40 million seed fund for African startups. This meetup will take place on Saturday, November…

Paul Ziem is the founder and CEO of NerdCore, a digital entertainment studio poised to make very entertaining games, comics and other related products and services. Paul is of the opinion that gaming can change the African narrative. By the kinds of games developed, the story lines, the characters we can…

Startups can now apply for the Google Launchpad Africa Accelerator. Launchpad Africa is an acceleration program that matches the best African startups with the best of Google – its people, network, and advanced technologies – to help build great products. Google is currently accepting applications for the first Launchpad Africa class,…

Apple has confirmed it is working to fix a recent issue of the iPhone X becoming unresponsive in cold weather. An affected iPhone X user shared his experience on a Reddit thread saying I’ve noticed that my iPhone X screen becomes very unresponsive as soon as I step outside. It…

Chinese internet company, Tencent, has purchased a 12% stake in Snap Inc. worth over $2billion. According to the WeChat owner, it says it can help the Snapchat owner publish video games and improve ad sales. The purchase of 145.8 million of its shares on the open market was disclosed by Snap…

The Young Entrepreneurship Day will bring together some of Africa’s most promising entrepreneurs with investors and new partners to help them scale up their ideas and businesses and the most successful start-ups will gain access to a deal room and also a one week tailored course at Stanford HE Paul…

South African based analytics company, Jumo, has received $6 million from Finnish Development Finance Corporation , Finnfund. JUMO is a mobile financial services platform for mobile network operators and banks. The platform facilitates digital financial services such as credit and savings in emerging markets by way of USSD short codes. The…

Having received over 300 entries, the AppsAfrica.com Awards Winners 2017 were announced at a pan-African mobile and tech awards party at Shimmy Beach Club in Cape Town, South Africa last night. The Awards supported by Boomplay Music, Africa Tech Summit Kigali, Basebone, BBM, Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) and Mobile Monday South Africa (MOMO) celebrate the best…

OPPO is gearing to launch its first ever full screen device, the OPPO F5, on November 20th in Kenya. The device that was launched in other markets recently will sport a ‘full screen design’ with a full-HD+ resolution, which means the OPPO F5 will feature a display with an 18:9…

Following the official release of the new iPhone X globally last week friday, Samsung released a new ad dissing about iPhones over the years. It scoffs at the fact that iPhone customers have to wait in long queues to get the phones; the fact that in 2016, the iPhone wasn’t water-proof…