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Finally Samsung has its own Voice Assistant and it is called Bixby. According to Samsung’s InJong Rhee, CTO of Samsung Mobile and the architect behind Bixby, as the capabilities of machines such as smartphones, PCs, home appliances and IoT devices become more diverse, the interfaces on these devices are becoming too complicated for…

Continuing in their series on ‘Lesson in Grinding’, Startup Grind Lagos will be hosting a Technology Entrepreneur, Chris Kwekowe, at her monthly Meetup holding on the 25th of March at CapitalSquare. Chris is a young MIT/Harvard trained innovative Ed-Tech entrepreneur from Nigeria. His venture, Slatecube, aims at developing young African talents into…

It seemed like “fake news” but the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, blatantly refused to shake the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel’s hand even when asked politely by the press and the Chancellor. Though the President greeted the German leader with a handshake upon her arrival at the…

Photo sharing site, Pinterest, has joined the list of banned sites in mainland China. The list consists of Facebook, Youtube, Google, Yahoo and even Twitter. This block was reported by censorship monitoring company, Greatfire. Greatfire regularly monitors a range of the internet’s top websites for accessibility in China. According to the…

Garmin in collaboration with MTN Nigeria partner to introduce a range of world class health and fitness devices to help boost fitness standards while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. There is an increased focus around the world to be healthy and more active, and through innovation and technology Garmin created a range…

Last year April, Google pledged to train one million Africans in its Digital Skills programme. Yesterday the technology giant confirmed that it has reached its target early (in 11 months) and has set itself to train even more Africans in digital skills in the coming year. It hit the 500k milestone…

Orange has officially launched its brand in Burkina Faso after its acquisition of Airtel operations in that country less than one year ago. Orange announced that it would pursue its development in mobile financial services and 3.75G mobile Internet, where it was the first operator to launch and is today the uncontested…

Data Analytics is basically the process of examining data sets to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends, customer preferences and other useful information. Datalytics by CcHUB and Devcenter aims to bring together data analytics practitioners to learn from each other’s work. There would be presentations, and demonstrations that will…

The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) has launched a new solution, PayReminder, to ensure that your eTag account is always topped up. This solution, developed by SimplePay, enables E-tag owners to make payment when their eTag balances are low. It triggers an sms message when a customer’s balance reaches a certain threshold. The…

Sony currently allows you play PS3 games on your Windows PC through its Play station streaming service, PlayStation Now. There are currently 483 games in the PS Now subscription and now Sony has announced that it would soon include PS4 games in the menu. All of the games in the service,…

Projects from Burundi, Liberia and Uganda have been adjudged the winners in the first Africa Innovation Challenge at the ongoing Global Entrepreneurship Congress. The Africa Innovation Challenge, organised by Johnson and Johnson and launched in November 2016, solicited novel ideas with a focus on three critical health areas: promoting early child…

Wouldn’t you like to own a denim jacket that allows you to stay connected without reaching for your phone? Well you can own the Interactive Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket for only $350. Levi’s and Google have collaborated to create the newest in wearable technology – the Levi’s® Commuter™ x Jacquard by Google Trucker…

Baferton Ltd, a Cyprus-registered vehicle funded by Hakan Uzan has purchased luxury phone maker, Vertu, for £50 million. Vertu was created by Nokia in the late 1990s to cater for people with expensive tastes. The handmade phones were made from expensive materials including sapphire screens, ostrich leather casing and titanium frames.…

Growth markets investor, Actis, has raised US$2.95 billion for its fourth energy fund Actis Energy 4 (“AE4”) The fund was raised by Actis’ in-house team and was significantly oversubscribed, smashing its original US$2billion target size in just over seven months. The fund will invest in select countries in Latin America,…

Intel has announced that it will be buying an Israeli-based tech company, Mobileye, for $15.3 billion. This is the largest-ever acquisition of an Israeli high-tech company. Mobileye is a technology company that develops vision-based advanced driver assistance systems providing warnings for collision prevention and mitigation. Under the terms of the…

The parent body of telecoms company, Etisalat which owns 45 percent holding in Etisalat Nigeria, says it wants to restructure the company’s debt before possibly selling its stake in the Nigerian business. The mobile operator defaulted on a $1.2 billion loan. It borrowed the sum in 2013 to upgrade and expand its network.…

The management of Dangote Salt and the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have expressed their readiness to collaborate and corroborate efforts to rid the food market of unwholesome practices by unscrupulous traders. The two managements resolved to work together closely to monitor the quality of products that…

Today is the first working day of Rob Shuter, the new Group CEO and President of MTN. He takes over from interim executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko. Nhleko took over as executive chair in an interim capacity in early November 2015 after former group CEO Sifiso Dabengwa resigned from the post. Until…

So far in 2017, 19,567 migrants arrived by sea to Italy and after the latest shipwreck this past weekend, 521 have died at sea – 50 more compared to the same period in 2016. The majority of these migrants are from Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal and Gambia – same…

“People wrote their wills, we thought we will not survive”, Oscar Onyema on Forbes Africa TV My Worst Day with Peace Hyde  Making it in business means having the ability to overcome adversities and no one knows that better than Oscar Onyema, CEO of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. When he…