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NexTech Africa is a 2-day event created by a group of passionate Africans at Microsoft designed to engage, empower and inspire Africans. It is an opportunity to collaborate with technology leaders from Microsoft and across the continent; to explore local innovations that are making a global impact, and advance the discussion…

If you are in Nigeria, you would notice today’s Google doodle celebrating Flora Nwapa’s 86th birthday. Flora Nwapa (full name – Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa) was a Nigerian Igbo author who has been called the mother of modern African literature. Born in  Oguta, in south-eastern Nigeria on the 13th of January 1931 , she…

Naspers Ventures has helped raise $22 million in a Series C round of funding for Michigan-based FarmLogs to invest in technology that will help farmers manage their farm activities effectively, efficiently and profitably. With this inflow, it will also increase its staff strength to cater for its increasing operations Drive Capital, Huron…

Nigeria’s payments company and operator of Remita, SystemSpecs, has appointed Mr. David Arome Okeme as its new Chief Marketing Officer. According to the company, “Okeme is joining us to lead the much desired transformation of our marketing function especially as we get into the retail space. Before taking up this job, he spent…

Six African SMEs have been nominated as finalists for the AFIF Entrepreneurship Award 2017, supported by the Rabobank Foundation. Out of the 51 projects from around the continent and following a few rounds of selection, the jury has selected these innovative projects from Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania for their…

There are reports online that the online Classifieds company, Efritin.com, has shut down operations in Nigeria. Muyiwa Matuluko of Techpoint.ng first reported the closure, stating that it got tipped off by an unexpected comment posted on an outdated article about Efritin.  He went further to say that upon further investigation,…

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, announced that a strategic partnership has been signed with Interswitch Nigeria Limited, the leading transaction switching and electronic payment processing company in Nigeria. Since 2002, Interswitch has been promoting the seamless circulation of electronic money by building the payments infrastructure and bringing…

With fiercer competition than ever before, business owners in all industries are working harder than ever to improve their marketing strategies and gain an edge over the competition. This is especially important now as marketing is mainly done online, with millions of different companies and websites fighting for the top…

Yahoo has disclosed that after the completion of its acquisition by Verizon, it will change its name to “Altaba” and Marissa Mayer will step down from the board as the CEO. These changes are contained in a report from the US securities and exchange commission: In connection with the previously announced pending…

Kenyans have taken to Twitter to mock their President over his perceived enthusiasm  for launching projects with great fanfare. His critics say that some of the projects “launched” by President Uhuru Kenyatta had already been commissioned. Some others think that these projects do not merit the presidential publicity. Last week, the President…

Facebook will soon start testing in “mid-roll” ads in people’s video clips  and will share revenue with the publishers. These video clips will be inserted in the middle of a video instead of at the beginning or at this end. According to Recode, Facebook is ready to split the ad sales…

Bharti Airtel has appointed Rajeev Sethi as the Chief Commercial Officer for its Africa operations. He replaces Farhan Khan, who has since left the company to join Al-Yah Satellite Communications Company. As the new CCO, Rajeev will be responsible for the formulation and implementation of customer-centric commercial strategies across 15 African…

Etisalat Nigeria has announced the names of the three shortlisted authors for the 2016 edition of its pan-African flagship literary prize, the Etisalat Prize for Literature. According to this year’s Chair of Judges, Helon Habila “In addition to originality of voice and literary excellence, our purpose was to also select…

German luxury automobile maker, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG also known as BMW, is using Google Spotlight Stories technology for an innovative way of storytelling, creating a 360° interactive virtual reality brand experience that is broadcasted via YouTube. “Visionary” offers a unique, immersive experience of the BMW VISION NEXT 100 –…

VConnect, Nigeria’s largest business search and review website, is excited to announce the SME Conference 1.0. Organized in partnership with Facebook, the SME Conference 1.0 is an invite-only one-day event aimed at exposing over 200 small businesses to innovative ways they can power business growth through strategies that startups already…

Exactly ten years ago, the world was introduced to the Apple iPhone by Steve Jobs. The event was the Macworld event at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco in 2007. The iPhone is a revolutionary product from Apple that changed the way smart phones look and work. “What we wanna do is make…

Zipline, the company that successfully carried out a drone delivery project in Rwanda, will be trialling the same concept in Tanzania. This trial of drone-based deliveries of blood and other medical supplies will be funded UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) As with the Rwandan project, the goal is to radically reduce…

Indian-based impact investor, Aavishkaar, is planning to raise $150 million to invest in opportunities in Africa. This was reported in the Mint newspaper citing Aavishkaar CEO Vineet Rai, that the firm will kick off the fund-raising by the middle of 2017. “We are looking to raise between $100 million and $150 million…

The Nigerian has barred its soldiers from uploading videos, pictures of operations on social media. This statement was made by the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Mechanized , Major-General Adeniyi Oyebade, on behalf of the Chief of Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai in Kaduna yesterday. He made this known at the graduation…

Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), the regulatory body for telecoms activities in Zimbabwe, has issued floor prices for voice and data bundles in the country. A floor price is the minimum effective tariff chargeable per minute for voice calls and per MB of data. According to a report…