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DEMO-Africa has released dates of key activities ahead of its annual technology startups launch event scheduled for 6th and 7th September 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At a press conference held in Nairobi and attended by key players in the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, organizers said that the application portal…

Atlas Mara and Mastercard have signed three strategic business agreements, which aim to build a stronger digital payment ecosystem with a focus on accelerating financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa. The strategic alliance will pave the way for up to 20 million consumers and 100,000 merchants across Africa to be digitally…

Techstars Atlanta Managing Director Tyler Scriven is traveling to Lagos with Ingressive’s Tour of Tech this February 27 to March 4. Scriven has settled on Nigeria as his first international recruitment because of the country’s rich history of yielding extremely talented and globally minded entrepreneurs. He visits Nigeria with the…

iROKO has announced that co-founder, Bastian Gotter is leaving the company. The original seed investor, COO/CFO will be replaced by Lauren Miller. Here is the company’s press release on this: Monday 30 January 2017. Lagos, Nigeria. The board and executive team of iROKO, today announces that Bastian Gotter, the company’s co-founder and…

Kwesé TV , Africa’s newest satellite network is here! The Kwesé Network’s Pay-TV satellite service started broadcasting today, beaming Kwesé’s full suite of superior entertainment and sports programming to households in Ghana, Rwanda and Zambia, which make up the initial phase of the Kwesé TV rollout across Africa, other countries…

Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife TV has announced that it would soon launch on Amazon Video. This measn that Africans in diaspora will have a new way to access homegrown African content. Amazon Video provides users with a library of all paid-for content which users can watch when and where they want.…

Alibaba’s payment affiliate, Ant Financial Services Group is buying US-based money-transfer company, MoneyGram International Inc for $880 million to expand its presence abroad. Ant Financial entered into a definitive agreement under which stockholders of MoneyGram were offered $13.25 per share in cash. The transaction will connect MoneyGram’s money transfer network of 2.4…

Two top technology companies, Google and Facebook, have reacted to President Trump’s executive order on immigration. On Friday, President Trump made good his promise to make it harder for people from certain countries to visit America. The executive order “Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States”…

Yinka Sanni named CEO, Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, Sola David-Borha Chief Executive Standard Bank, Rest of Africa and Demola Sogunle, CEO, Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of Standard Bank Group, has announced major executive appointments and changes in its management structure as part of strategic…

MTN Business has thrown its weight behind the fight against maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria with the launch of MTN Audrey Care, an all-inclusive maternal and child healthcare service. Offered in collaboration with The Audrey Pack Company, and supported by the GSMA, MTN Audrey Care has as its primary…

Barely four months after Uber launched its food delivery service, UberEATS, in Johannesburg, it has set up a second shop in South Africa. This time, it is in the beautiful city of Cape Town. According to its blog, “Cape Town couldn’t be a better place for us to bring UberEATS with…

“G Suite achieved a significant new customer milestone last quarter. More than 3 million paying businesses are now using G Suite to collaborate smartly and securely in the cloud.” says Google CEO Sundar Pichai. This new milestone was revealed by the CEO in an earnings call this week. Google Suite, formerly known as…

Nigeria’s largest online mall, Konga.com’s commitment to deepening commerce and trade in Africa is bearing commendable results as some of its franchisees and merchants have benefitted from the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund.  The franchisees and merchants were among the Seven Hundred and Five beneficiaries who received various amounts of…

Early this week, we reported that Ex-Xiaomi VP, Hugo Barra was leaving the Chinese-based company to go back to Silicon Valley because of health reasons. Well it didn’t take him too long to rest as Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled him as the new head of Virtual Reality at Facebook. He will also…

Bharti Airtel has posted a 55% fall in its Q3 profit compared to a year ago. This was due to the effect on its voice and data businesses due to Reliance Jio Infocomm’s free services which resulted in a full-blown rate war. The net income for the three months of 504 Rs…

While digital media has not eliminated the printed book entirely, the decreasing demand for books (and old books in particular) is altering the job of the library. Changing public demands are having even more of an impact on the library of the future. What will the Library of the Future…

Nigeria being one of the biggest smartphone markets in Africa continues to appreciate smartphone innovations especially with the reception ‘Infinix Note 3’ received after launch in 2016. According to Google’s year in search 2016 Infinix Note 3 was the most searched for android smartphone in Nigeria. The smartphone following the…

Shell customers will be able to pay for their fuel using Orange Money Pan-African partnership covers nine countries (Botswana, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Senegal and Tunisia) where both companies overlap and where Orange Money is available Under this agreement, Orange Money customers will be allowed to…

The Cameroon government has ordered the shutdown of the internet to the english-speaking region of Bamenda and Yaounde. Six days after the order, and it is still in force and the hashtag #BringBackOurInternet is trending on Twitter. The shutdown was advised via a letter from the Director-General of CAMTEL, Cameroon’s national telecommunications and…

American Telecoms holding company, Sprint has just acquired a 33% stake in Jay Z’s music streaming service, Tidal. This purchase will soon give Sprint’s 45 million retail customers unlimited access to exclusive artist content not available anywhere else. The Press Release continues… TIDAL and its artists will make exclusive content that will…