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Yasmin Bello-Osagie, Co-founder She Leads Africa features in new Microsoft Windows 10 ad about the “Lenovo Yoga” Lenovo Yoga is a range of laptop and tablet computer products from Lenovo, named for their ability to assume multiple form factors due to a hinged screen. She talks about how technology helps SLA…

Today in history marks the day when the first commercial instant camera, Polaroid Land camera Model 95 went on sale at the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston – 28 November 1948 The camera was an instant hit – it produced sepia toned photographs in about one minute. It was easy to use and the…

European Investment Bank (EIB) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have partnered with the European Commission to launch a new platform, Boost Africa Initiative, to support innovation and entrepreneurship across Africa. Boost Africa will contribute to fostering the development of an efficient entrepreneurial ecosystem in Africa by supporting the earliest and riskier stages…

Naspers’ half year results show an increase of 16% year on year to US$6.8bn. Excluding acquisitions, disposals and currency movements, revenue growth was 27%. Businesses outside South Africa contributed 80% of revenues, up from 75% a year ago. Core headline earnings grew 31% to US$914m. “We experienced a satisfactory first six…

Safaricom has announced that it will be recruiting 40 female university students out of the earmarked 62 interns under its internship program by January 2017. This is in an attempt to woo more women to the technology field and it is under the Women In Technology initiative. The other 22 interns…

Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s leading hotel booking company has launched a free product – spots.ng. It suggests interesting spots and fascinating tourist attractions in Nigeria to users based on their preferred travel location while providing information such as directions, a list of discounted and nearby hotels, safety ratings, and reviews. Mark Essien,…

GE launches its first ever permanent ‘garages’ installation in Lagos, Nigeria The GE Lagos garage supports Government’s localization, skills development and job creation efforts in Nigeria The Lagos Garages space features advanced manufacturing innovations like 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC mills, encouraging entrepreneurial growth and building a skilled workforce…

Do you know that you can now watch a video on Whatsapp without downloading it first? Hitherto, you would have to download the video before you can actually watch it on your device. Now you can stream while you download if you want. Whatsapp is rolling out this feature on…

Fresh Direct emerged as the winner of the2016 She Leads Africa Demo Day held last week in Lagos. The Demo Day was the closing ceremony to the 6 month She Leads Africa Accelerator entrepreneurship development program. Five out of ten companies the SLA Accelerator worked with, were able to pitch their businesses on…

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, recently announced the appointment of Converge Global Concept Technologies as its first Premier Partner in West Africa. Converge Global Concept Technologies is an IT services organization that specializes in the deployment of mission-critical technology systems, solutions and services. As a…

Seedstars Africa will host these eighteen (18) startups for different countries in the African continent. The second edition of this regional summit will take place on December 9th in Kigali, Rwanda. The motto of this year’s event will be “The future built in Africa” and it will bring together 30 of…

The patented Nigerian App MyAds silently introduced new features we believe you have to see.  They initially called MyAds App, an advertising app that allows you to earn points when you recieve calls, but we caught an upgrade online yesterday and the features are really impressive. They have introduced what…

AFIF 2017’s focus is to promote access to finance and strengthen entrepreneurship in Africa. To achieve this, EMRC is launching the annual “AFIF Entrepreneurship Award”, calling all African-based entrepreneurs to participate in this renowned award, which will be followed by international partners, leading African businesses and international media. This year’s award,…

Nigerian creators  NdaniTV, Channels TV, MarkAngel Comedy, IbakaTV/Nollywood were among the winners of the YouTube Africa Creator awards that took place in Johannesburg South Africa on Friday, November 11, 2016. This is the first YouTube Africa Creator awards and it seeks to celebrate the incredible creativity and talent on YouTube from across…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a total of $4 million to eight startups that are revolutionizing household solar power across Africa through the Scaling Off-Grid Energy: Grand Challenge for Development. The announcement was made by Power Africa Coordinator Andrew M. Herscowitz at the 22nd session of the UN Climate…

Social entrepreneurs are individuals whose innovative solutions help solve society’s most pressing social challenges. They draw on business techniques to find solutions to the everyday challenges that confront us in society but unlike regular entrepreneurs their primary aim is to create impact and improve lives, not to make profit. However,…

I remember there was a time when Nigeria (in 2009) passed a law that all commercial motorcyclists and passengers on bikes must wear helmets. It was a major issue for the passengers of commercial bike riders in Nigeria (okadas) as they didn’t want contract any hair infectious diseases. And the commercial…

Jaguar has unveiled its first all-electric sports car – the Jaguar I-Pace concept. The SUV was introduced at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week. It is thought that this will put Jaguar in direct competition with Tesla, particularly with the Model X. The I-Pace runs off a liquid-cooled 90kWh lithium…

Jumia Travel Nigeria has celebrated its 3rd year of doing business in the country and also marked the second edition of its awards ceremony at Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island today. A total of 28 Lagos hotels were awarded under five categories namely, Customer Choice, Best Partner Hotel, Best Hotel Partner,…

MedTrucks, Nanoé, MaTontine have won in the 2016 Orange Social Venture Prize or Africa and the Middle East. The announcement was made by Bruno Mettling, CEO of Orange MEA during the AfricaCom Awards ceremony held in Cape Town, South Africa, last night. The Orange Social Venture prize aims to encourage start-ups in Africa and Middle…