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Adegoke Olubusi of OneMedical and Tobiloba Ajibola of Dresses by Aloli have emerged as winners in the Etisalat Prize for Innovation event held yesterday at Eko Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria. Adegoke Olubusi of One Medical won N5,000,000 as the most innovative product or service launched in the previous year. OneMedical is an advanced digital…

Zain Telecom has agreed to pay Bharti Airtel $129 million to settle its various claims and disputes in Nigeria. Bharti Airtel acquired Zain’s African business, including Nigeria, for $10.7 billion six years ago According to Airtel, “Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV and Zain Telecom have reached an agreement, pursuant to which Zain…

The Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) has launched a mobile payment system called microCash (mCASH). NIBSS partnered with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), banks and the telecoms companies (Airtel, Etisalat, Globacom and MTN) to provide this Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) payment solution to further deepen financial inclusion. The banks involved in…

Get your family and friends involved as we come together to keep the doors of Mirabel Centre open – a sexual assault referral centre which is the first SARC in Nigeria and the second in West Africa that provides free counselling and medical support for victims of rape and sexual…

Huawei unveiled its latest flagship smartphone yesterday. It is the Huawei Mate 9. In fact, two phones were unveiled at the global event – the HUAWEI Mate 9 and the exclusive PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Mate 9. “In developing the HUAWEI Mate 9, we started with a simple question – how can…

Effective today, Groupon closed its shop in South Africa and is no more offering deals. This is the summary of the message that can be seen on the Groupon South Africa site. The full message is written below: Dear Customer, You have been redirected here as you have tried to…

Every year the Collins dictionary comes up with the most used words in a year. It has come up with the 2016 top 10 words of the year. Brexit is number 1 on the list. The dictionary publisher said that Brexit saw its first recorded usage in 2013, but has…

In a bid to accelerate the adoption of digital money transfers in Cameroon, WorldRemit has entered into new partnerships with three major players namely – MTN Mobile Money, Express Union and Banque Atlantique. With these new partnerships, people in Cameroon can choose to receive remittances in a way that suits them –…

These are really interesting times in the cloud-based team collaboration tool space. And it seems that Slack is scared that this new found interest by big organisations like Facebook and Microsoft in this space will affect its market share. Last month, Facebook launched a similar service called Workplace by Facebook and…

Whitey Basson, the founder of South African based food giant, Shoprite, will be handing over the reigns of the company after 37 years as the CEO. This December, he will hand over to Pieter Engelbrecht, the company’s 47-year-old chief operations officer. 71 year old Basson said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Cape…

Steven Udotong wants to be first African -American to build a nuclear fusor. As at the time of writing this article, he has raised $625 of his $1500 goal on crowd funding site,  GoFundMe. Steven, whose parents are Nigerians, is currently a junior at Cinnaminson High School in America. According…

It is November 1 and as promised, Linda Ikeji has revealed the meaning of LIS. It is Linda Ikeji Social. Simply put, Linda Ikeji Social (LIS) is what you get when you put Facebook, Linda Ikeji’s blog and ebay into the same mix. Some might think that Linda Ikeji is just…

Dr CADx has emerged as the winner of SeedstarsHarare. The startup beat eleven other contestants to pick up the ticket and represent Zimbabwe in regional and global Seedstars summit. Dr CADx is a computer aided diagnostic system to help doctors diagnose medical images more accurately in order to provide better…

In the recent release of The Global Innovation 1000 report for 2016, Apple was voted the most innovative company . However its substantial margin has narrowed  and it edged out Alphabet (formerly known as Google) this year by only a handful of votes. Alphabet’s Google continues to make waves with initiatives…

The Huawei Mate 9 is expected to be unveiled at the Huawei event on the 3rd of November in Munich, Germany. (Invites have already gone out). Huawei has released  teaser videos which highlights some of the features of the phone. The first video focuses on the battery life. It shows…….(Instead…

Chinese telecoms networking, equipment and services giant, Huawei has signed a co-operation deal with music vendors  to accelerate the digitalisation of music in Africa. This deal was struck recently at the Huawei Southern Africa Partner Summit held in Johannesburg. Some of the music vendors include Spice Music, Mtech, CCA and other…

Entrepreneur and founder of Bharti Enterprises, Sunil Bharti Mittal, has been elected as the GSMA Chairman for two years starting from January 2017. He will be replacing Jon Fredrik Baksaas who has been in this position for the past three years The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 800…

Farhan Khan has left Airtel Africa to join Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) as the Chief Commercial Officer. Before joining Yahsat, he was the Chief Commercial Officer for Airtel Africa. As the Chief Commercial Officer of Yahsat, he is responsible for the overall customer operations, marketing and sales management activities of…

Tesla’s electric car, Powerwall and solar roof are shown by Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk, unveiling new energy products aimed at illustrating the benefits of combining his electric car and battery maker with solar installer SolarCity Corp, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., October 28, 2016…REUTERS/Nichola Groom Elon Musk’s…

Is this meant to be a shade or Microsoft really believes it can convert die-hard Apple users to try its Surface gadgets? Yesterday Microsoft introduced the world to the newest members of the Surface family, including the Surface Studio and the Surface Book. Microsoft believes “No device line up can match…