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Bill Gates has shared his list of books he will be reading this summer. Interestingly, his list includes South African comedian, Trevor Noah’s “Born a Crime”. According him, “Summer is a great time to escape: to the beach, to the mountains, or to the world of a great book. This…

Four Nigerian startups, one from Kenya and another from South Africa will join twenty-seven others in the fourth class of Google’s Launchpad Accelerator. The startups are Delivery Science (Nigeria): Mobile forms to help large organizations get field data Gidi Mobile Limited (Nigeria): gidimo is a mobile learning platform that uses mastery learning &…

The new published trailer of Spider Man homecoming gives us a bit about a Tony Stark infused Spider Man. Forget the Spider man of the ages. Welcome to the Spider Man of the New Age. Imagine your suit telling you this: Good evening Peter. You have 576 possible web-shooter combinations. Will…

Andela has launched its operations in Uganda. This is the third operating country for the Zuckerberg-backed developer startup. Andela already has operations in Nigeria and Kenya. Andela trains software developers for 6 months and then deploys them to tech companies around the world that need their skills. Andela says it chose Uganda after…

HYBR, in partnership with THNK School of Creative Leadership and Scale Up Nation Netherlands, have come up with a new initiative to help ventures scale up. It is called the Young Enterprise Scale-Up (YES) Program. The YES Program is a five-year venture support and growth acceleration program to enable participating ventures scale…

May promises to be an exciting month for Female founders / entrepreneurs in Lagos as Startup Grindcelebrates the tenacity and audacity of the Female entrepreneur. In light of this, Startup Grind Lagos will be hosting Pradeep Pahalwani, an accomplished entrepreneur, life coach and trainer, who in over 23years has consistently…

27-year-old Godwin Benson has emerged the winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation with his tutoring platform called Tuteria. This attracts a cash prize of £25,000. The Nigerian Systems Engineer designed Tuteria, an online platform that links students to qualified tutors in their area and within their budget.…

Huawei has just introduced three new devices – the HUAWEI MateBook X, HUAWEI MateBook E and HUAWEI MateBook D. The company launched the first 2-in-1 matebook in 2016 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Highlights include: HUAWEI MateBook X: An efficient and stylish 13-inch fanless notebook design with an 88…

A lot of hashtags #ManchesterArena #Manchester #PrayForMancester #MISSINGINMANCHESTER #ManchesterBombing are trending on Twitter as people take to Social media to trace their missing relatives in the aftermath of terror attack at an Ariana Grande music show. It is reported that 22 people lost their lives while 59 were injured when a suspected…

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…