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Econet Wireless and Mahindra Comviva have won the “Best Mobile Payment Solution” award under “The Connected Life Awards” at the ongoing Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona Spain. They beat the following contenders in the same category: Mahindra Comviva for mobiquity® Wallet Hybrid HCE solution Telenor Pakistan for Easypay…

Award winning Forbes 30 Under 30 global speaker and startup ecosystem expert, Christine Souffrant Ntim will conduct keynote talks and workshops on personal branding and startup hacking in Abuja, Kaduna and Jos for a one-week tour. The visit includes appearances at the Abuja Yali Network center, Abuja African Women Entrepreneurship…

Following continuous increase in its production capacity, foremost cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc has finally ended the era of Nigeria’s dependence on importation as the company exported 0.4 million tons of the product to other countries in 2016. In its 2016 full year audited results presented on the floor of…

Mastercard has successfully been able to introduce and roll-out Masterpass QR in seven markets in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). This momentum is part of the company’s commitment to delivering efficient and cost effective payment solutions to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the region. The significance of…

Xiaomi has unveiled its own processor, the much publicised Surge S1. Surge S1 is the first SoC (system-on-chip) Xiaomi has built with its owned company – Pinecone Electronics. A SoC incorporates a CPU, GPU, memory, USB controller, power management circuits, and wireless radios into a single silicon chip. Xiaomi is the fourth…

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge has been adjudged the Best Smartphone for 2016 at the  GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards (The Glomo Awards) taking place at the ongoing Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona. The device beat the following contenders: Apple for Apple iPhone 7 Plus Google for Google Pixel XL Huawei for…

Nigeria is the first stop on a week-long trip to West Africa where Chris will visit Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal to learn about the challenges and opportunities people in the region face so that Facebook can better serve the region’s content creators, entrepreneurs and developers Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer…

Swedish Investment company, Kinnevik AB, has sold half of its 13% stake in German eCommerce company, Rocket Internet for €207 million (approximately $218 million) in gross proceeds. Kinnevik sold 10.9 million shares overnight for 19.25 euros each, a 10 percent discount to the closing price. Kinnevik first backed Rocket Internet in 2010…

Samsung has officially released a teaser about the new Samsung Galaxy S8. It will be unveiled on the 29th of March. There was an earlier post that stated that the release date for the Samsung Galaxy S8 would b announced at a special event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this…

Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s leading hotel booking company has rolled out a new service – online flight bookings – on its website. This new service has been designed to provide our users from all over the world with an affordable and an all-inclusive travel platform from where all their travel arrangements can…

Hip-hop artiste and Samsung brand ambassador, Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru, popularly known as Reminisce, recently held the maiden edition of his brainchild, “The Street Concert.” The concert which held on the 25th of February at the Ikeja City Mall was in appreciation of his teeming fans that have stood by him…

Mohit Goel the CEO of Ringing Bells, the company behind “Freedom 251” – the world cheapest smartphone, has been arrested on fraud charges. Mr Goel was arrested following a complaint that his company had not supplied the handsets that a phone distribution company had paid for. The launch of the…

TCL Communications has unveiled the latest Blackberry smartphone – the first smartphone announced under Blackberry’s new brand and device-licensing strategy, which saw the company transitioning from doing internal handset hardware development to leveraging our third party partner to provide that function. Built on the world’s most secure Android software platform (based on Android…

Mavin Records boss, Don Jazzy, has partnered with Tsaboin CEO, Dele Odufuye to launch a free WiFi service – Flobyt. Flobyt is a free WiFi service provided at partner locations for patrons of the locations. The WiFi service is made available through an internet router that does not require much technical know-how…

Last year, Google started an initiative in conjunction with global mobile telecom operators, GSMA to accelerate the availability of Rich Communications Services (RCS). The initiative was to enable all operators worldwide to provide an open, consistent, and globally interoperable messaging service across Android devices. The reason was that SMS hadn’t evolved to take advantage…

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) today launches the search for fifty-four science and technology Ambassadors, one champion from each African country. The selected NEF Ambassadors will join the NEF Fellows Class as part of the NEF’s Community of Scientists. NEF Ambassadors attend the NEF’s signature event, the NEF Global Gathering, the…

MainData Nigeria (MDXi) and the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) have announced a partnership aimed at expanding the peering of Internet Transit traffic within Nigeria. The partnership seeks to take advantage of the numerous networks and content providers already connected to MainOne to grow traffic in the Nigerian Internet…

Samsung Electronics has just unveiled its new QLED Q9, Q8, and Q7 TV series with the belief that this latest range of TVs will create an entirely new era in home entertainment. “With the advent of QLED TV, Samsung can provide the most true-to-life picture on screen, having been successful in solving…

Today, the GE healthymagination Mother and Child Programme will graduate 14 social entrepreneurs who completed training and mentorship aimed at improving and accelerating maternal and/or child health outcomes in Africa. After a rigorous evaluation process, the social enterprises were selected to be in the first cohort of the healthymagination Mother and Child…

Andela is calling interested people to apply for its bootcamp in Kampala, Uganda.  Though it is not clear if Andela is opening an office in Uganda, it has been confirmed that the bootcamp will take place in Kampala in April 2017. This is the third country that Andela is establishing…