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Microsoft has just introduced a new Surface Pro which has 13.5 hours of battery life. Microsoft claims that the new Surface Pro has 50% more battery life than the Surface Pro 4 and 35% more than an iPad Pro. It’s more than 2.5 times faster than Surface Pro 3. It…

Instagram is introducing two new ways to discover the world on Explore: location stories and hashtag stories. With these two new ways, anyone can see what’s happening around them and find stories related to their interests. According to an Instagram blog, “You’ll see a new story ring at the top of Explore…

The Women in Global Health (WGH) Movement honoured Kenya’s Mercy Owuor of Lwala Community Alliance alongside 12 other women at the movement’s “Heroines of Health” gala event that took place last evening in the Swiss Capital Geneva, on the margins of the ongoing World Health Assembly. WGH is a movement…

Alexandria, Egypt hosts PEACE HACK MENA, a five-day international initiative that is taking place from the 21st-25th of May, 2017, where peace innovation ambassadors are utilizing the power of innovation hubs across the MENA region as tools for open dialogue revolving around building and sustaining peace. The objective of PEACE…

Facebook is doing everything to ensure people spend more time on the site. Now it is rolling out a service where you can order food within its app without having to navigate to a delivery service or restaurant’s own app or website. According to TechCrunch, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has started…

Uber has launched Uber Freight. Uber Freight is an app that matches trucking companies with loads to haul. According to Uber in a blog post, “Truck drivers are the heart of the American economy. They drive about 10%of all miles and haul a whopping 14 billion tons of freight every…

Microsoft has announced that it will soon open its first two data centres in Africa. They will be located in Johannesburg and Cape Town. According to Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group for Microsoft, in a blog, “Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse…

TechCrunch is bringing the Startup Battlefield competition to Africa. This is the first time TechCrunch will be hosting a startup competition in Africa. Thanks to Facebook for sponsoring this event. The event will be happening in Nairobi, Kenya on the the 11th of October this year. So get ready as TechCrunch…

The last installment of the remarkable Forbes Africa TV show My Worst Day with Peace Hyde is finally here and it features Ghanaian serial entrepreneur, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, Founder of Groupe Nduom, a multinational Family Holding Business of Ghanaian and American origin comprising of over 60 independent companies across several…

The Rwandan Telecoms Regulatory body has fined MTN $8.5 million for non-compliance with the directives issued  prohibiting the inclusion of MTN Rwanda in the MTN South and East Africa (SEA) IT hub based in Uganda. The regulator said in a ruling posted on its website in Kigali that MTN Rwanda was hosting…

Google I/O, an annual developer conference held by Google, kicked off today, May 17. I/O showcases technical in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open sources such as Android, Chrome and Chrome OS, APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more. Here are some…

Nigeria’s largest online mall; Konga.com is once again demonstrating its customer-centric nature through unbeatable price cuts in the Konga Gadget Event. Konga Gadget Event is a yearly event where shoppers enjoy discounts shopping for appliances, gadgets, and more. Appliances and gadgets like mobile phones, mobile accessories, Televisions, Refrigerators, light appliances…

The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers…

Truecaller, one of the leading communication platforms in the world, today announced that it will start rolling out its ads platform in Africa, Truecaller Ads. Brands will now be able to utilize the Truecaller app to reach more than 40 million users in Africa. Truecaller launched contextual advertising for brands…

Facebook has selected 60 finalists from the hundreds of entries it received from across the Middle East and Africa for the Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. The Bots for Messenger Challenge is a contest to recognise and reward developers who create the most innovative new bots on Messenger. Developers, in…

Uk based telecoms giant, Vodafone, is transferring 35% of its stake in Kenyan-based mobile operator Safaricom to its listed South African company, Vodacom. Based on the agreed terms of the transaction, Vodafone will be exchanging the 35% indirect interest in Safaricom for 226.8 million new ordinary Vodacom shares.  The transaction,…

The ever-evolving global Camera Phone brand OPPO, has unveiled its latest premium model the OPPO F3, a dual selfie camera phone featuring high-end specs and a number of unusual tweaks intending to drive the next wave of the selfie revolution in Kenya. The F3 packs a dual front-facing selfie camera…

The Western Union Company , a leader in global payments, today announced that it has further strengthened its global digital money transfer footprint, with the activation of its 40th wu.com transactional website, now providing full digital access for cross-border person-to-person (P2P) money transfer services across major developed nations including the US,…

She Leads Africa has just opened applications for the 2017 She Leads Africa Accelerator, a 3-month program designed to identify, support and fund the next generation of Nigeria’s brightest entrepreneurs. SLA’s 2017 Accelerator will take place in 4 locations across Nigeria – Abuja, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland, and Kaduna. The 2017…

Google is introducing two new updates to change the way the company addresses policy violations by Adsense publishers and how it communicates these violations. The tech giant says these updates are in response to publishers request that they want more transparency about how Google responds to policy violations on their content. Publishers also want…