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UK-based online student lender, Prodigy Finance has raised $240 million in debt and equity to speed its expansion within the United States. Prodigy Finance provides postgraduate loans to international students with no alternative access to finance. The new fund includes a $40 million Series C equity round led by international…

MallforAfrica.com has partnered with eBay to make African goods available on the global e-commerce marketplace. This means that consumers all around the world can buy African goods on eBay’s Mall for Africa Store. MallforAfrica is responsible for selecting the sellers, handling payments while DHL will ship the goods. This new…

The Infinix Note 4 competition closed on Friday 18th of August 2017. We had 4,145 entries and after the Rafflecopter draw, the lucky person drawn is ….Miss Lammie Obayomi. We have contacted her and she will be receiving the smartphone this week. Congratulations Miss Obayomi   🙂 To all those…

Today, I will be reviewing the Motorola Moto G5 Plus. I have had it for a little over a week now. The Moto G5 Plus was launched in February 2017. The phone The phone has a 5.2″ touchscreen display with a 1080 X 1920 resolution. Powered by a 2GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon…

Youtap, a global provider of contactless mobile payments and financial services software, has launched a QR code solution and smartphone apps for mobile money services in Africa and Asia. Youtap’s solution enables customer-initiated or merchant-initiated QR code payments for smartphones and smart point-of-sale devices. The solution conforms to the BharatQR…

Phew! At long last, Kwese TV is finally coming into Zimbabwe. This is made possible by Dr Dish (Private) Limited. In a media release forwarded to Innovation Village, talks with Econet Media Limited, a Mauritian based Pan African Television network had been going on for some time until a deal…

Here are my thoughts about the 4K display packing Sony Xperia XZ Premium. Launched in February 2017, the Sony Xperia XZ Premium smartphone has a 5.5-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 2160 pixels by 3840 pixels. This smartphone runs Android 7.1.1 OS and is powered by a 3230mAh non…

It’s the first day in Amsterdam and the PitchDrive crew are on to a good start! Their pitching skill is put to test. With only 3 minutes on the clock, they deliver a compelling pitch to investors at Amsterdam’s leading tech hub, TQ. Plus, there is a ‘new’ member to…

For the PitchDrive crew, it’s their last day in London before they head out to Amsterdam for the second city touch-down on the 5 European city tech tour. They were hosted to a lunch style pitching by Global Innovation Fund (GIF) after which they experienced the perfect end to the…

Hotels.ng to flag-off a special internship programme for Akwa Ibom Residents on the 1st of September, 2017 Hotels.ng, a startup and Nigeria’s biggest hotel booking service signed an MOU with the Akwa Ibom State government in a deal aimed at promoting local tech talent in the state. Hotels.ng, a tech…

Nigerian based digital publishing platform, Publiseer, has launched its free book and music publishing services for author and artists. According to the company, Publiseer is tailored to meet the growing needs of independent Nigerian authors and artists. It says its mission is to promote the creativity of Nigerians to the rest of the…

It is Day 3 and the video shows what the teams have been up to in London before leaving for Amsterdam. The crew spend the day at Campus London, first at a pitch training on how to ‘present with charisma’, thanks to the Amazing Amy. Followed by a super boost…

Stanford Graduate School of Business today announced a USD $3 million, three-year partnership with De Beers Group to empower young, budding entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa through two new educational programs launching in 2018. Stanford is expanding two of its successful programs to Southern…

Instagram has just introduced new ways of making conversations more exciting by introducing new ways to reply using photos and videos. The Facebook-owned company announced that you can now reply with a photo or video to specific photos, videos, and reshared posts in Direct. Your reply will automatically include a sticker…

Barack Obama’s tweet is now the most liked tweet of all time. It was a well intended response by the former President but it captured the hearts of his people. Barack Obama was responding to the violent clash between hate groups and protesters that happened in Charlottesville. He tweeted three…

Nigerian edutech startup, ScholarX, has introduced a new feature, Village, to assist in funding students education. Village is an education crowdfunding platform where African students (Secondary and University) can create funds request and sponsors can search, discover and fund them. On the Village page, there is one icon which students can…

This is the second episode of the “Tales From Pitch Drive”. The Pitch Drive crew make an early start to FaceBook after which they take a swing at proper pitching of their businesses to the investors at CDC Group and later to Helios Investment Partners. Watch the clip below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d70FMRHnZ4&sns=fb…

Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM), the company behind Jobberman and Brighter Monday, has set up another company called “The African Talent Company (TATC)” to offer cross border recruitment services in Africa. According to the ROAM, the new company was set up to focus on Jobberman and Brighter Monday’s clients that were asking…

Infinix is surely not chilling at all o! While we are still basking in the euphoria of the Infinix Note 4 which it released in July, the smartphone company has exclusively told Innovation Village that another one is on its way…….before the end of the month of August. It is…

HMD has finally unveiled its long awaited android smartphone – the Nokia 8. With this smartphone, Nokia has introduced a new buzzword called “bothie” . Be less Selfie. Be more #Bothie. It is the world’s first smartphone that you can use both front and rear cameras simultaneously with Dual-Sight mode. It…